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All of the traffic model runs done to date have shown significant regional cut-through traffic (no Pleasanton Planning Area trip end) using several City street routes, most notably: · Sunol Boulevard-First Street-Stanley Boulevard (or Sunol Boulevard-Bernal Avenue-Stanley Boulevard) · Berual Avenue at 1-680-First Street-Stanley Boulevard · Foothill Road-Stoneridge Drive Smaller or larger cut-through volumes also use other routes, depending on the model run. Other traffic with a Pleasanton Planning Area trip end also chooses local routes when a freeway route, if uncongested, would be quicker. These routes usually are worker-trip-related with origin/destination at the City's business parks and include routes through town (e.g., Stoneridge Drive-Santa Rita Road-Valley Avenue-Stanley Boulevard, or Bernal Avenue-First Street-Stanley Boulevard/Bernal Avenue-Valley Avenue-Hopyard Road-West Las Positas Boulevard-Santa Rita Road) rather than using the congested freeway systems. The impact of these constrained-model "choices" is to put much more traffic at some of the City's gateways than would exist under a "demand-model" run. Cut-through traffic - by every definition - is planned to be discussed at the next workshop. However, staff would like the Council to concur that in investigating land use/circulation network alternatives (the next workshop topic), the concept of a constrained model run will continue to be applied. What this will mean in practice is that staff will "mitigate" traffic at existing and/or new gateways only to the extent that "downstream" streets and intersections can reasonably accommodate the expected new traffic attracted to a new and/or improved route. There will likely continue to be significant congestion at certain gateway intersections (or for certain movements at these intersections) in every alternative; to improve these sufficiently to achieve a Levels-of-Service C-D operation will likely attract so much additional traffic that either these intersections or the next ones "downstream" will operate at Levels-of-Service E-F. With Council's concurrence to this method of looking at alternatives, staff can continue to address the various land use/circulation network options. CALCULATION OF BASELINE DEVELOPMENT NUMBERS This section addresses questions regarding the number of existing residential units and the number that is assumed for buildout of the 1996 General Plan. Councilmembers have noted that several slightly different numbers have been used in City and Pleasanton Unified School District (PUSD) materials. However, the differences between these numbers reflect either different geographic areas being considered (Planning Areas compared to City area), different dates for accounting of existing residential units (January 1, 2004 compared to 2005), or assumptions for changes to the General Plan (for example, PUSD assumptions for additional housing in Hacienda Park). SR05:135 Page 6