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- Responses to Communication: Verbal Comment from David Jones provided at May 28, 1996 City Council Meeting In response to a request by David Jones for a more thorough and accurate response to Comment AS in the "Response to CommentS." staff recommends that Comment AS be revised to read as follows: "Regarding circulation on Rose Avenue under Subalternatives 1 and 2 (with and without the extension of Rose Avenue to Valley Avenue): The Draft EIR text on page 160 addresses the fact that the Fairgrounds is a large block of land that creates a barrier to east/west circulation in Pleasanton. The primarY demand for Rose A venue as a collector street results from the local traffic generators and attractors in the vicinity of the Fairgrounds. The attached figure shows these to be the Del Prado neighborhood, the southern portion of Pleasanton Valley near the Del Valle Parkway, the Rose A venue neighborhood, Downtown, the Bernal Corporate Park, and the 1-6801Bemal Avenue interchange. The arterial route on the north side of the Fairgrounds is Division Street, Hopyard Road, and Valley Avenue. This route is not a direct east/west connector; hence, a significant number of motorists use Black A venue, Via Espada, or Hansen Drive, which have residential frontage streets. " "Rose Avenue and its extension to Valley Avenue would be used primarilY for the following trips: (1) Del Prado to and from the Downtown, and Del Prado to and from Del Valle Parkway; (2) Pleasanton Valley/Del Valle Parkway to and from Bernal Corporate Park, and pleasanton ValleylDel Valle Parkway to and from 1-680/Bemal A venue interchange; and (3) Rose A venue neighborhood to and from Bernal Corporate Park, and Rose A venue neighborhood to and from 1-680/Bemal Avenue interchange. "The Bernal A venue/Pleasanton A venue route was not mentioned as an alternative because it is not an alternative on the north side of the Fairgrounds. The concentration of all of the neighborhood traffic onto Bernal A venue is part of the circulation problem. "The Del Valle Parkway is not an alternative to the proposed Rose Avenue extension or to Valley Avenue, because the Del Valle Parkway provides an east/west route in the area east of the Fairgrounds, whereas the purpose of the Rose A venue extension would be to provide an east/west route along the northern edge of the Fairgrounds and connect to the Valley A venue arterial on the west of the Fairgrounds." WPR:ml1(lespOllsudd) 1