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and into retirement and asked if people really want to retire next to a freeway or an airport, suggested moving entities around and political pulling and pushing in the community, and in summary he referred to the delta in that it may have a big pull, the pumps may be shut down to 25 million people, and in the future, we may not to legally to be able to build new development due to water laws. Mayor Hosterman agreed, stating the State has many water and energy issues and long-term sustainability. She closed the public hearing, thanked everyone for sharing their opinions and views. She felt the Council heard a lot of heart-felt concerns regarding not just neighborhood issues but also as individual comments about what is best for the entire community. She felt the job was not easy, complimented staff, said the Planning Commission has been involved with the General Plan and thanked those members. She asked Commissioners to first make comments and then the Council, said there has been polarization over the issue and felt there was an opportunity to craft a solution that could pull everyone together. Commissioner Olson said he felt the take-away tonight is we have to work on SR 84, we have to look at this on a regional basis and SR 84 was critical. He does not think it would look good regionally to take Stoneridge out of the General Plan and feels we must act regionally if we want a solution for SR 84. Mayor Hosterman agreed, said the March 26 meeting was the last meeting of the Triangle study and at that time, Dublin, and Livermore cities and the County were willing to move forward with infrastructure improvements to I-580 and I-680, but drew the line at SR 84, and said it was their opinion that the Stoneridge Drive extension as a regional issue and unless the Council moved forward with keeping it in the General Plan and actually building it, that SR 84 improvements were off the table. Since then we had a subcommittee meeting at the Alameda Congestion Management Agency on which herself and Supervisor Scott Hagarty sits, and at that time she asked fellow boardmembers if they would not approve the non-consensus plan reached which includes only infrastructure improvements to I-580 and I-680 and not SR 84, but to give her an opportunity for her to discuss this with regional partners and Councilmember McGovern so we can bring them back to the table for on-going discussion about regional improvements and the need to keep SR 84 on the table. She was unsuccessful. The full Board will be meeting this Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in Oakland, and at that time she will ask again for additional discussion, and the other two cities will be there. She said this is being mindful that the City of Pleasanton has identified the 580 corridor as being most important collectively to all of us as a region, as the port-to-port freight movement corridor and one extremely important to the economy. But, also we recognize that SR 84 is the ticket to reducing cut-through traffic in Pleasanton, so they will not give up in these efforts. Councilmember McGovern felt she would leave the extension in to keep some regional options open, would throw out the idea as possibly part of the General Plan, that there might be a policy or statement that this road would be designed to make it not attractive to get off I-580 and use it as a way to get somewhere else. She felt she would not be ready to build it yet, but would keep the options open and leave it in. Commissioner O’Connor felt that if it stays in the General Plan, but he did not realize that one of the hooks to SR 84 improvement dollars was to actually install it at this time. He felt SR 84 was definitely the ticket to cut down on cut-through traffic for Pleasanton and for Livermore, as well. He felt it would be the fewest dollars versus the flyover from 580 onto 680, and if we had those two solutions in place, Stoneridge extension would probably be a non-issue. So he sees it as a timing issue if Stoneridge were to ever go into the future. He would hate to see it go in first and Workshop Minutes 22 April 24, 2007