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then picking back up. While it looks like cut-through, the flow diagram may not be the best indicator of what cut-through traffic is. Janice Stern pointed out that Hacienda Business Park was growing by 55% in the future, so if we are talking about 10% to 20% being cut-through, 80-90% of those people are Pleasanton residents that are using it. Just when you look at this picture, Hacienda and Santa Rita are still at capacity under this scenario. So we are moving some of the traffic around, but what is happening is that they are going north up to Dublin Boulevard and so there is a capacity constraint going across I-580. There is the same capacity constraint at ramp metering but that is not the difference; it is not getting on the freeway. What is happening is that people working at the Hacienda Business Park are trying to find anyway to get out, so they are going north up Hacienda, up Santa Rita, up to Dublin Boulevard, and going across east. Those are at capacity going across the freeway with or without Stoneridge. So, she said it’s not that we are shifting traffic from the freeway; it’s mostly from Dublin because the ramp metering is accepting it from the freeway. Councilmember Sullivan said although there is a decrease in the flow on those roads with or without Stoneridge Drive, Ms. Stern said there is a decrease to the freeway but most of those are decreasing going up north to Dublin Boulevard; it’s not a decrease onto the freeway. The ramps are still at 600 which is the capacity of the ramp metering. Councilmember Cook-Kallio questioned if some of that traffic without Stoneridge will get off of Hacienda just because of the increase at the Hacienda Business Park. Ms. Sterner said in the PM peak hour, people leaving Hacienda Business Park right now under assumptions under 2030 are scrambling to get to the freeway to get north Dublin Boulevard to go east, so that drop is still at capacity going across the freeway and to the freeway, but they are moving some of the trips over to Stoneridge. Councilmember Cook-Kallio confirmed with Mr. Tassano that the segment of roadway near Val Vista was also at capacity. Councilmember Sullivan said the City now has a housing cap of 29,000 units and this is what this whole thing is built on. We’ve been sued once and are still being sued over this. Some day, he felt we may lose the housing cap; no one is anticipating that and this Council is committed to protecting the housing cap. It is a voter-approved cap but someday that might be gone and obviously if additional development does occur, depending on where that occurs in the City, there is not a lot of other places other than Hacienda where it could occur or on the east side. Ms. Sterner said right now growth assumptions for housing are about 5% in trips for the AM and PM peak hour. Your R&D, industrial and office uses are somewhere around 30% to 40% of the increase of total trips in the future. If you think about office and R&D, your peak is coming into your city in the AM and coming out of the city in the PM. If you have housing, your peak is going out of the city in the AM or to work in the city, and then back in the PM. So, if you think about where your congestion problems are leaving or entering the city, this is really the balance you are changing. She thinks they do have something with jobs/housing balance where the trips are matching up, but even then, you are not expecting everybody to match up. People are still going to go in and out of the city. So the switch is from inbound in the AM versus outbound in the PM. Councilmember Sullivan said he was not sure about his understanding of the answer. He said for instance, commercial would be the same but let’s say we had 40,000 housing units instead of 29,000. Ms. Sterner said then you would have an increase associated with that. You would have more pressure for people to get out of the city in the AM and more pressure to get back into the city in the PM. Workshop Minutes 11 April 24, 2007