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addition to the azea and would alleviate crosstown traffic to the other Home Depot store or to Livermore. Bob King, 871 Old Oak Road, Livermore, noted that he has had a business at Stanley Business Park for 22 years. He supported this project and believed it would be the best fit for the neighborhood. He believed this project would impact the least amount of people possible and that it would fit in with the working businesses in the area. He did not believe the Valley Avenue turn would be solved by any business. Nancy Allen, 1509 Oxsen Street, representing Stop Pleasanton Gridlock, spoke in opposition to this project. Her group did not support a Home Depot-type of development in the middle of residential neighborhoods and believed it would be better located neaz the freeway or a business pazk rather than attracting crosstown traffic. The three major issues were crosstown traffic, weekend traffic, and the addition of a development in this azea without a full, Citywide traffic plan as part of the General Plan. She noted that she had conducted an informal weekend traffic count neaz the other Home Depot and believed it would double the traffic and noise. She was concemed that Saturday mornings and evenings would be disrupted by such an increase of traffic and noise and would like more data in order to make an informed vote. She was very concerned about the impact on residents' quality of life. She questioned whether this application could be approved without a mitigation plan as part of a Council approval. She requested a contingency to require the new Home Depot to pay the City if the Johnson Drive Home Depot were to be closed and left vacant. Andy Steen, 663 Concord Place, spoke in support of this project and believed the area needed this service and the surrounding facilities. He believed the design team did a good job in not making it appear to be a big-box store. He added that the sales tax revenue would be a benefit to the City. Gazland Draper, 4031 Schween Court, spoke in opposition to this project. She was concerned that the traffic on Valley Avenue would be further worsened. She objected to the additional noise in a quiet residential neighborhood and did not believe it had been sufficiently addressed. She would like to see along-term infrastructure plan to solve the already severe traffic situations in the Valley Avenue/Bemal Avenue/Stanley Boulevazd azeas. She believed the traffic report associated with Home Depot was flawed and did not include data from the Shadow Cliffs buildout and the waterslide. She noted that it also did not include the possible closure of the Johnson Drive Home Depot and would like these traffic issues to be addressed by the City Council before this project is addressed. She would also like the Stoneridge Drive extension to be completed before this project were to be considered. She noted that her neighbor, Hank Jones, requested that she read his email since he could not attend: "I would like to communicate my thoughts regazding the Home Depot you are proposing to place on the corner of Valley and Stanley. I would love to have a Home Depot so close to my residence, but the traffic situation is really bad already. Unless traffic was reduced on Santa Rita and Valley Avenues, there would be no way that I would support this development. "Let me explain. In the morning I take my son to Harvest Pazk Middle School. He would no longer ride his bike because he was hit last yeaz, and he's scazed, and I know PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES December 13, 2006 Page 11 of 26