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March 30, 2007 Leslie Mendez Pleasanton Planning Department Cr ~lO .. ~ 1~ Old Bernal Avenue ~,~ ,•-~ :., _~ , Pleasanton, CA 94566 ~ ~ " ' RE: PUD-61 Emil Oxsen and Kathleen Morrison ` "''~ 403 St. Mary Street -Lot Split ~,, .Y Dear Leslie: As someone who has been very close to Old Town, and to this property, I am writing in support of Emil Oxsen and Kathleen Morrison request. I have lived in, and loved, Old Town for decades, (Amador 55') yet the Oxsen and Morrison families make me look like a new comer. Emil (Amador 54') and his older brothers and sisters were born and raised on a Pleasanton ranch. There are streets in Pleasanton named in honor of the Oxsen family. Kathleen Morrison (the flag lady) who lives in the cute little well kept 1915 bungalow on the corner was born and raised in this house by her grandparents, and like her grandparents will most likely die here. Emil, his wife Margie and Kathy's vision for their later years became clearer when the Oxsen's discovered a drawing of a little bungalow in a 1927 Sears and Roebuck catalog "Houses by Mail" and Kathy, a friend, offered them the opportunity to live in Old Town, the only town either has ever really known. The Oxsen's and Morrison took that drawing, and that opportunity, and turned it in to something real. Something that they, and the Old Town community itself, should be proud of. It seems to me that these things define the very meaning of "Building a Community of Character", in both the moral and visual sense. I keep asking myself, where are the misleading intentions here? Where is the bad precedent? Where's the greed? And where are the negatives to the community? Emil and Margie Oxsen and Kathy Morrison have proven by their actions and the results that they simply want to live out the years in Old Town in a little house that each can call their own. I support that desire. ~nce}~ely, P.s: one might note that both houses combined still only total about 2300 sq. ft., a 21% F.A.R. on the 10,669 sq. ft. lot. A far cry from the 45/50 percent F.A.R. the city has been approving lately.