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complaints have been received after approval of these facilities. In addition, the Planning Commission added a condition that requires a meeting between City representatives, the neighbors, and the applicants be held every 45 days of the first year of operation to discuss traffic, parking, and noise issues. Instead, staff proposes a condition requiring a review of the large family daycare six months after the start of operations. The latter is a typical condition of approval placed on use permits that provides a degree of balance between monitoring and addressing adverse impacts to the neighborhood, and conserving staff resources, as well as the time and energy of Pleasant on residents. Furthermore, since a neighborhood facilitation process was already conducted to encourage agreement on the size of the facility, staff has deleted the condition that the Planning Commission added on that issue. Finally, staff has added a condition which would require the City's Traffic Committee to consider ways to improve traffic safety and reduce speeds in and around Paseo Navarro. CONCLUSION The City has approved several large family home daycares in residential areas throughout Pleasanton. Experience has shown that most daycare facilities do not fundamentally alter the nature of the underlying residential uses. Drop-off and pick-up times tend to be staggered, thereby reducing traffic and parking impacts, and noise tends to be minimal. The Suttons provide children with a traditional home setting that is conducive to healthy and safe development. Staff believes that the applicant's home is an appropriate location to provide a large family home daycare that both complies with the requirements of the Pleasanton Municipal Code and State law and is consistent with the policies of the General Plan. Staff understands and respects the concerns of the neighborhood in terms of traffic and safety. Allowing up to six more children will bring more traffic into the neighborhood, and the neighbors have reported excessive speeds and unsafe driving procedures associated with drop- off and pick-up of daycare children. However, staff believes that allowing six additional children will constitute a minor, incremental traffic increase, especially considering that some of the children are and would likely continue to be siblings and that the schedule is staggered so that not all parents arrive at the same time. Furthermore, the Police Department has observed the situation and was unable to document traffic violations or excessive traffic. While this does not mean that such situations do not occur, staff and the Planning Commission were unable to find that the traffic issue was so significant that the use permit should be denied on that basis. The applicants have made efforts to educate their customers concerning respectful driving and parking practices and are addressing a community need for daycare services. Therefore, staff supports the application. SR:05:220 Page 7