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PLANNING COMMISSION Page 8 4/13/83 Kenneth Best, 235 Old Royal Oaks Avenue, Alamo, owner of 25 acres adjoining the Pleasanton Business Park property, spoke in favor of the application. He said he favors an assessment district. John Innes, 1586 Foothill Road, applauded the developers for their presentation, especially with regard to the presentation on noise studies. Mr. Innes spoke to concerns about Santa Rita Road and with truck traffic being experienced and under the best conditions as pointed out by the acoustical consultant, it is going to be noisy. His concern is with the request of the developer to be released from the obligation on the assessment district on E1 Charro Road. He asked if it is possible to incorporate the extension of Valley Avenue to Stanley Blvd. in the E1 Charro Road assessment district. He indicated that this is the proposed circulation pattern as stated in the General Plan. Commissioner Wilson stated they are not removed from their responsi- bility of participating in the E1 Charro assessment district unless they participate in the Valley Avenue extension. He thought it would be unfair to ask the developers to participate in both. assessment districts. Judy Johnson, 3670 Chillingham, reiterated her request for an acoustical engineer to address their concerns for noise. She said this has now been done. She said from his report one can see that noise impacts on Santa Rita Road are far from ideal, particularly for those persons in the area owning two-story homes. She said she now hopes that an alternative agreement between the homeowners and developer can be reached, hopefully for an alternative truck route. She commended Mr. Saltar, Mr. Callahan and Mr. Martin for their efforts and cooperation. Charles Pinolet, 987 Kolln Street, spoke in opposition to the proposal. He stated he was confused with the alternate fence proposal made by Mr. Martin for the Kolln Street. He said this alternate was not addressed in the staff report or public notice, therefore, assumes the staff has not had time to review the alternate. Mr. Harris indicated this matter was brought to his attention late in the afternoon by Mr. Martin. He said this was a result of recent conversations with some of the homeowners_in the area and they asked that the originally 10' high screening wall would be made an acoustical fence and they would have difficulty meeting the cost of that and so they would offer this alternative. r2r. Harris stated he told the applicant to go ahead and discuss it at the Planning Commission meeting.