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mitigation could not be used for Valley Avenue. He believed that the City should do what it could to alleviate the traffic on Valley Avenue, and he did not believe it would get any better. Commissioner Olson believed this project should be approved so that more pressure could be brought to beaz on the subject of traffic within Pleasanton. He agreed with Commissioner O'Connor's comments that the traffic on Valley Avenue should be alleviated. He noted that there were several speakers who addressed the need to push the Stoneridge Drive extension through. He believed the Planning Commission had the responsibility to look at revenue in the City in view of what it needed to sustain itself over time. He would also be in favor of looking at weekend operating hours. He would particularly like to see the liquor store reference removed and not approved. Commissioner Blank agreed with most of Commissioner Olson's comments and believed the Stoneridge Drive extension was a discussion for another time. He agreed that the liquor store reference should be deleted from the plan and was very concerned about the hours of delivery, hours of operation, and truck traffic. He was very concerned about trucks lining up at 5:45 a.m. to be ready at 6:00 a.m. and about noise impacts. He would not support this project without the previously stated grill restriction. He agreed with Commissioner Olson's comment that tax revenue should be considered as the City approached buildout. He believed the consulting engineers and developers should be on the hook if their projections do not come to pass. He was not as concerned about ashort-term closure of the Johnson Drive store because the revenue per square foot was slightly higher in the Johnson Drive store. Commissioner Peazce generally agreed with the previous comments and noted that this site would not remain as a vacant field. She believed that Home Depot would provide less traffic in the long run than other business options being considered because it would not be a unique business in the City. She agreed that traffic was a major problem and believed the City should keep traffic engineers and developers on the hook if their traffic models did not pan out. She agreed that business revenues should be kept in mind as the City approached buildout. She agreed with the grill restriction and the removal of the liquor store from the plan. Acting Chairperson Fox noted that she would not support this proposal because it was located too faz from the freeway. She disagreed with the move to sandwich abig-box retail store between two existing residential neighborhood and that it was too close to the Downtown. She believed this use and the associated traffic and noise would affect their quality of life and would not preserve the character of the residential neighborhood. She noted that the City did not have a weekend traffic model to gauge the effects of this use. Routing the commercial traffic through Valley Avenue would result in a negative impact on that street. She noted that the 100-foot buffer between the Beth Emek synagogue and the Home Depot complex had not been included as discussed in the first two workshops. She noted that the General Plan called for providing setbacks, landscaping, soundwalls, and other methods to protect adjacent land uses from noise from development. She believed that by not providing that buffer, this project did not meet the General Plan. Acting Chairperson Fox did not believe this part of Pleasanton had ever been designated as a regional shopping center in the 1970's and 1980's. She believed this project would be PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES December 13, 2006 Page 16 of 26