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Ms. Michelotti described Valley Avenue as being a four lane arterial, with soundwalls on either side, located in a residential area, which rum past a school and a park area and circles the City. The residents along Valley Avenue would have liked development to have stopped at Molar. She said Stoneridge Drive has been in the General Plan since 1989 and will be a completion of a major piece of infrastructure. She spoke about the General Plan and the how the Specific Plan and the Stoneridge Drive extension work together for the buildout of Pleasanton. The traffic issues relating to Staples Ranch came before Council a year ago and $100,000 was spent on traffic studies. She felt studying E1 Charro was appropriate but not the Busch property. She said she represents the people in Pleasanton who use Valley Avenue and Santa Rita and who in the future will use the extension as an arterial to get to Livermore. She agreed that there are ways to improve Kamp Drive, the safety of children, airport noise, and all the issues brought forth. A Specific Plan has already been adopted for Staples Ranch and she did not want to lose the amenities that went with it. She agreed that Staples Ranch should be excluded, but include the traffic circulation. She felt the reasoning for studying the Busch property was to fred another exit, possibly through the Kaiser property. But Kaiser has said that property will be a lake some time in the future. Ms. Dennis said her concern with Staples Ranch has been the cut-through traffic that might happen with the connection of Stoneridge Drive to El ChatTo. She said the studies and the traffic model that were done helped to verify the traffic volumes and helped to answer her question about whether Stoneridge Drive was designed to accommodate the increase in traffic flow. She questioned the land use and what it is the community wanted. She said the extension of Stoneridge Drive has always been in the plan. She was interested in looking at the improvements to E1 Charro because it will affect all the land around it. She agreed it would be okay to leave Staples Ranch out of the study. She also did not want to undo what had already been approved and the new plan has to fit with the circulation that is already proposed. The Stoneridge Drive extension is needed for the residents that use Valley Avenue today to get to Livermore. She spoke to the DeSilva Group about mitigating the pedestrian traffic traveling to the sports park. She supported the Planning Commission's recommendation. It was moved by Ms. Ayala, and seconded by Ms. Michelotti, approving the Planning Commission's recommendation of Option 4 as the area to be studied. Mayor Tarver felt a considerable amount of time could have been saved if the Council had had this discussion and made these decisions during the Ponderosa referendum process. He felt this whole discussion tonight gave very little credence in terms of what the community has asked for. He understood the majority of the Council wanted to study the BuschIPonderosa property. He did not agree with this because he felt too much was being left out. Ms. Dennis said as a slow growth person her views have always been to preserve the environment around the City of Pleasanton. She recognized very early in her involvement that areas within the City limits and within our sphere of influence are designated for urbanization and fall under a completely different set of issues. That is why she was very concerned about Pleasanton City Council 23 05/05/98 Minutes