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stated the City elected slow and no growth representatives. This development only adds to the traffic on 1-580/680. Mr. Buecker opposes Plan 4 because it seems to segregate the areas by income. It does not address the concerns of the entire area, only those in Mr. Wiemken's neighborhood. The lots do not equally distribute the traffic. Mr. Buecker cited other streets that have lost their rural character to City development. With the minimal increase in traffic with Plan 1, Mr. Buecker urged the Planning Commission and City Council to approve Plan 1. Skylar Cohen, 1602 Martin Avenue, urged continued consideration of Plan 4. She feels staff's objections to Plan 4 can be mitigated. Staff's objections deal with the neo-traditional design elements; Mr. Weimken is not a professional designer. There is no definition in the General Plan for a traditional neighborhood. Ms. Cohen feels Plan 1 only incorporates 4 of 13 elements of traditional design. Regarding the issue of cut-through traffic, she questions TIOM's assigning 350 of the 600 cut-through trips on Kolin to trips to Alisal school. Ms. Cohen believes people use Kolin as a cut -through to Valley to go east. She believes the study should be redone to count how many cut-through trips go east or west. She also believes that the 600 cut-through trips on Kolin could easily be diverted to MartinlMohr/Kamp and through Laurel Meadows. This would probably put these streets over the 3,000 maximum trips per day. Peter Cohen, 1602 Martin Avenue, requested clarification of Condition 52, and whether this applied to homeowners on Mohr or Martin Avenues. He feels there is no justification to charge these residents for a storm drain. Their concerns on traffic are being ignored, and this volume of traffic is unacceptable. It is not proper planning to route Medium and High Density traffic through a Low Density neighborhood. Mr. Cohen believes the increase in traffic does not comply with the General Plan's directive to maintain the character of existing neighborhoods. Of their petition with 309 signatures, 95% of the signatures oppose Plans 1 and 3 and approve of Plan 4. Mr. Cohen disagrees with the TKJM trip figures and presented a vugraph that indicated 400 trips were missing from the data. There are more cars going north on Kamp than the study accounts for, and this goes over the 3,000 maximum ADT. Mr. Cohen closed by requesting the process to work, let Ponderosa and Mr. Weimken work together on the plans and not push something unwanted onto the residents. Carole Varela, 3858 Mohr Avenue, wanted to correct comments from the December 11th meeting. She feels the project has too many High Density units that would affect the surrounding property values. She is also interested in neighborhood calming measures. At the last meeting, the majority of the Commissioners asked staff to proceed with Plan 1; doesn't the fact that letters and petitions show staff that the neighborhoods are angry at the process that is taking place. The City is pushing the traffic that will affect 1300 residences. The City should not approve this project until they can satisfy citizens they can development roadways that will accommodate new development. EI Charro would help in easing the traffic in the neighborhoods. Ms. Varela wants a study done on hazardous materials on the property. The study from November 1994 is not current enough, and the areas tested are nowhere near the areas of concern (Mohr Avenue's east portion of the property. She wants this investigated further. She also feels that the City should deal with water issues in the Valley before going forward with the Laurel Meadows development. The current residents are the City's first priority. Chair Barker feels Ms. Varela has some valid concerns. She motioned to delay the project, feeling it is being processed too quickly. Staff stated the public hearing is still open and it would be inappropriate to cut off public testimony. Commissioners Lutz, Dove and Cooper agreed to continue Planning Commission Minutes Page 11 January 22, 1997