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. Commissioner Lutz stated he wants multiple access to the project, not to exceed 3,000 daily trips on the neighboring streets, and to investigate traffic mitigations. He would like to explore the Boulder Avenue extension. He also wants to keep the park squares and the central park where they are now located. Commissioner Lutz also stated he wants to tone down the comments made about the School Board and their interaction with the Planning Commission. There are processes established to communicate with the School Board. Commissioner Lutz spoke to the City Council's job of managing the growth rate with the growth management figures. He also feels Ponderosa has done a good job adhering to the General Plan and designing a neo-traditional neighborhood. Commissioner Dove shares Commissioner Lutz' comments regarding the School District. Commissioner Dove also feels this project should be planned for both options of elementary school boundaries. Chair Barker agrees with the revised plan proposed by Mr. Wiernken because of the shared traffic. She also supports cul-de-sacing neighborhoods in order to protect them. She heard the comments from the Kamp and Kolin residents. Chair Barker opposes homes facing Mohr Avenue and liked the custom lot redesign of Mr. Wiernken. She feels the project should be lowered in density by the use of larger lots. She concurs that Kamp will be used for cut-through traffic. Chair Barker would like to see a decision made now regarding the extension of Mohr to El Charro because that would impact future decisions on this project. . Chair Barker is concerned about the addition of residential projects without proper school planning. This problem must then be addressed through growth management and lowering the density would help. She also liked the three-way split on traffic flow. Regarding neo-traditional design, Chair Barker does not feel the addition of a porch to a house makes a neighborhood neo-traditional. The garages are still very prominent, and she doesn't feel the developer should be getting credit for this design. Commissioner Wright rebutted these comments saying Ponderosa has designed the project with more park space, the setbacks, the parallel streets with planter strips, the house porches, etc. Chair Barker stated Pleasanton has a tradition for building parks and requiring a developer to build their share of parks is not outrageous. Mr. Iserson summarized that the general consensus was to pursue Plan 1 and possibly look at the density a bit, to have the applicant explore the extension of Boulder and relocating Busch, the park should stay where it is now located, and that the design was neo-traditional. Staff will work further to refine Plan 1. Chair Barker asked staff address Plan 4 (Mr. Wiernken's plan) in the staff report. Commissioner Cooper commented that Chair Barker was the only person on the Commission who favored Plan 4. Commissioner Cooper stated that as the only member who sat on the General Plan Steering Committee, the City has obligations from the state to provide a certain amount of high density bow;ing. This property seemed a good location to provide such housing, The City has enough half- million dollar homes, He sees no justification for reducing density in this area. Chair Barker feels . Planning Commission Minutes Page 14 December 11, 1996