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process where they did not want to model that as part of the regional exercise because we thought at the time it would be coming out of the General Plan. Commissioner O’Connor asked if we were not including the westbound HOV/I-580 in this modeling, and City Manager Fialho said he is correct; it is not included in this 2030 model. We just learned less than four weeks ago that it was funded. Mayor Hosterman said the voters of California just voted to approve tremendous amounts of bond monies for transportation issues. Northern California got a good chunk of that. Timing is actually linked to the funding and when we appropriate a certain amount for a particular project, in order to secure it, that project must be started on a certain date. City Manager Fialho said in 2011 it must be under construction. Mayor Hosterman said what happens when the money comes from the federal and state government, it filters through MTC and then to individual counties, or Alameda County Congestion Management Agency. Then we have the opportunity to determine how to spend what monies we get. Councilmember McGovern asked how often a City reviews it’s General Plan and update it, and Ms. Stern said it can vary. Pleasanton reviews it every 10 years but it could be up to 15 to 18 years. Councilmember McGovern said we know that in 2030 there could be 2 to 3 additional General Plan reviews done by the cities we are looking at to do the traffic models. At those times, they can choose if they want to increase the amount of housing that they are going to build, increase commercial development, so we know that when they review their general plans between now and 2030, there will be changes made in those areas. Councilmember McGovern said she was at a meeting looking at the West BART station and there was discussion at the time about how San Ramon gets to the freeways. San Ramon gets to the freeways either by Bollinger or by Tassajara. Tassajara meets Santa Rita and she asked if we looked at the impact that San Ramon and its growth will do to Pleasanton. Mr. Tassano said staff does look at regional impacts through the MTC model as well as the CCTA model to make sure our input is coming into the Pleasanton model, tri-valley uses are incorporated into there and it includes San Ramon. Councilmember McGovern said she has not seen San Ramon’s general plan and was not sure what their development is supposed to be at build-out, but if Bollinger and Tassajara was the way to get on the freeway, there is a lot of traffic. Ms. Sterner said Tassajara is at capacity in the AM and PM peak hour. Councilmember McGovern said when she looks at the report, she thinks about what kinds of improvements could be done in the interim and the next general plan. Trying to move traffic the best it can be moved within the community. We still have not talked about traffic light synchronization and we have not talked about whether or not we have the ability to look at real life situations on the monitoring in our city and hire someone to help move that traffic by changing the lights at a real life time, and asked if we had that capacity. Mr. Tassano said we have the ability to synchronize our signals. No one except the Bay Bridge metering actually has a person there anymore unless there is a major event, such as the San Jose Sharks game when it lets out. The city will have a person who adjusts the traffic flow and the bridge metering on the Bay Bridge is still done by a person. Most others will just use a fixed time or semi- actuator or full-actuated signal system that provides for main streets and “x” amount of times. Councilmember Sullivan felt the City has that capacity to do that if we wanted to. Workshop Minutes 13 April 24, 2007