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with current approvals today versus what took place in the 1996 General Plan. He noted that there were serious access issues with Lund Ranch II and Kottinger Hills and would like them to be better planned out and not rushed to approval prior to the new General Plan being put in place. Mike Regan, 1363 Hearst Drive, believed that issues such as the balance of affordable housing versus other projects and open space versus infill building must be addressed. He noted that traffic and the accompanying service level was a critical issue. He believed that putting a moratorium in place would be difficult but supported that action. Philip Blank noted that he had asked the Commission to agendize this proposal for a temporary moratorium for all new, major PUDs until the update of the General Plan is completed. He detailed the background of his request and stated his belief that Pleasanton did not need to develop all the available land in the City. He expressed concern about the quality of life in the City as well as what he perceived to be deteriorating levels of safety within the City because of the traffic issues. He believed that a major development would contain more than 20 units in a PUD. He noted staff s statement that the 1996 General Plan did not work from a traffic perspective and noted that the City continued to increase the amounts of traffiq lowering the levels of safety within the City limits and increasing public safety response times. He believed that the only way to fix the traffic issue is to stop the development and remediate Highway 84. He noted that the General Plan specified that if traffic Levels-of-Service go beyond a specific point, the City must stop issuing building permits. He urged the Planning Commission to instruct staff to stop issuing building permits and enforce the General Plan guidelines. He noted that the traffic engineer hired by the Kottinger Hills development was the same engineer that believed there would be no traffic impact due to the waterslide; the same traffic engineer performed the traffic studies for the 1996 Plan, which staff admitted did not work. Mr. Blank inquired whether the City had an adequate Zone 7 flood control program, which he believed to be a public health, safety, and welfare issue. He would like a moratorium to be in place until the Zone 7 flood control plans were fully in place and updated. He believed that a hundred-year flood in this area would devastate the City. He urged the City to stop issuing building permits until all the intersections in Pleasanton meet the required Levels-of-Service. He believed that the City should maintain a moratorium until Highway 84 is fixed, which would then reduce or eliminate the cut-through traffic. Mr. Blank urged that a moratorium continue until the impact of the 850 homes already approved has been identified. He believed that those 850 homes would add thousands of trips a day into Pleasanton, causing further deterioration in levels of safety. He urged the City to strictly enforce the rules in the General Plan and instruct staff to do so immediately or recommend a general moratorium to the City Council. Sean Buran, Development Manager for Greenbriar Homes, noted that Greenbriar has done business in Pleasanton for more than ten years, with three residential subdivisions under active construction in Pleasanton. He noted that they were processing entitlements on the 185-acre Lund Ranch II project. Greenbriar expressed its strong opposition to the adoption of any sort of PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES March 24, 2004 Page 11 of 22