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BACKGROUND At the last Joint Workshop on Circulation and Land Use held on January 30, 2007, the City Council directed staff to undertake additional traffic modeling, such that all three previously selected land use options would be modeled with the "working draft" circulation network both without and with the Stoneridge Drive extension. The three land use options show different distributions of the remaining residential units under the 29,000 unit residential cap, and include different commercial development allocations in the East Pleasanton area. The residential and commercial assumptions for East Pleasanton are "placeholders" for the purposes of defining a range of development options for the Environmental Impact Report. A future Specific Plan for that area will define actual development potential. A numeric description of these land use options (residential units and square feet of commercial development) is found in Attachment 1. In summary, these options consist of: . Consensus Preferred Plan which includes a 350 unit apartment complex at the new West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station; 333 units in Hacienda Business Park; and the remaining units distributed among Staples Ranch, East Pleasanton, Kottinger Place/Pleasanton Gardens, and Downtown infill. East Pleasanton also includes over 2 million square feet of research and development space, 1.6 million square feet of industrial space, and 150,000 square feet retail commercial. . Dispersed Growth Option which would include fewer units at the new West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station, additional units in Hacienda Business Park, and additional units in East Pleasanton. In addition to 376 residential units, East Pleasanton development would consist of about 1.4 million square feet of research and development space, 91,000 square feet of neighborhood commercial space, and 1.96 million square feet of industrial park space. . Concentrated Residential/Transit Oriented Development (TOO) Mixed Use Option which locates most of the remaining residential development in the Hacienda Business Park in mixed use development with residential units above or in proximity to retail commercial and office uses and close to public transit. The remaining residential units (102 units) are planned for the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART station. East Pleasanton development is assumed to consist of no residential units, 2.25 million square feet of research and development space, 80,000 square feet of retail commercial space, 2.1 million square feet of industrial space, and 210,000 square feet of commercial office space. Trip Reduction for Transit Oriented Development. The traffic model for the Concentrated Residential/Transit Oriented Development scenario was run twice. The first model run used the same traffic generation rates for the development near BART in Hacienda Business Park as were used for development city-wide. That is, all traffic generation rates were based on the ih Edition of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Trip Generation (ITE) data. The second model run reduced the traffic generation rates based on the idea that mixed use development adjacent to transit will result in fewer car trips compared to conventional development not located adjacent to transit. This is due to "internal capture" made possible, for example, because employees can accomplish daily errands within the development rather than having to get in their cars, and because Page 2 of 10