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THE CITY OF pL£AS&NTON City Council-Planning Commission General Plan Workshop Staff Report August 30, 2005 Planning Department Public Works Department SUBJECT: GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT UPDATE PURPOSE: To consider information regarding cut-through traffic and to provide baseline information for evaluating a preferred circulation network. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Receive staff presentation and direct staff regarding a working draft circulation network/intersection design with which to evaluate future land use scenarios. SUMMARY: As requested in prior workshops, this report presents information regarding the various types of cut-through traffic and suggests Circulation Element policies to address this issue. Furore cut-through traffic routes and volumes are projected with the "Existing Plus Approved" land use/circulation network, and three circulation network alternatives are evaluated, as follows: Altemative A: The Existing + Approved circulation system in Pleasanton with intersection mitigations and gateway constraints; Alternative B: The Existing + Approved system with intersection mitigations and gateway constraints plus currently planned street widenings and street extensions, except for the Stoneridge Dr. Extension and the W. Las Positas interchange; Alternative C: The Existing + Approved system with intersection mitigations and gateway constraints, plus widenings and extensions including the Stoneridge Drive Extension and the W. Los Positas Blvd. interchange (modified 1996 General Plan circulation system.) This report describes three types of "cut-through" traffic: regional; city-based arterial cut-through; and neighborhood cut-through traffic. Regional cut-through traffic, caused by the inadequacy of the regional freeway and highway system, primarily affects the Sunol-First/Bernal-Stanley route; the Bemal Avenue and