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Ms. Ayala concurred. The roll call vote was as follows: AYES: Councilmembers - Ayala, Dennis, Michelotti, Pico and Mayor Tarver. NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Ms. Dennis appreciated everyone's comments and suggestions. She wondered how Staples Ranch fit into the traffic projection and asked about the Ruby Hills secondary entrance. Mr. Swift said with respect to the Staples Ranch project, staff decided to put the approved Specific Plan in the approved project category rather than the non-approved project category. Staples Ranch was also included with the land use that the existing Specific Plan has for the project. This includes a 17 acre community park, the rest being commercial/office. Because the approved Specific Plan has commercial/office development, the number of trips generated by the project heavily impacts the Stoneridge Drive corridor. A modification to the Specific Plan was proposed which adds residential spaces, reduces the commercial/office area, and increases the community park to 35 acres. Because this modification has not yet been approved by Council, staff used the existing Specific Plan land use traffic figures to create the model. He said Council has the authority to require whatever traffic studies, mitigations, land uses that are necessary to ensure that the General Plan level of services policies are met. Staples Ranch will be before Council at a later date and Council can impose whatever mitigations are necessary to assure that the level of service does not exceed certain levels. He said Ruby Hill is not at 425 building units yet and there are no express conditions in the City approvals that relate to the secondary access. There was a condition that the extension of Highway 84/Isabel had to be connected by the time one building permit is issued beyond the mid-point. However Isabel is in the City of Livermore and Signature Properties has asked to modify the requirement. Staff is preparing a summary of Ruby Hill conditions and will have it ready for Council shortly. Ms. Ayala asked for staff to comment on Kris Kumaran's 50 percent increase in traffic over the next ten years. Mr. van Gelder said the numbers that Mr. Kumaran quoted regarding traffic that will come from the approved and buildout would be approximately 50 percent increase above today's traffic level. But as said before, it is hard to foresee the future. Staff does not know exactly when the traffic will reach these numbers. It used ten years to create the model. Ms. Michelotti said the City has tried to do the very best job in modeling and she was pleased with the traffic model. The model is just a projection of the future. She agreed the problem needed to be solved regionally. Future road improvements need to be taken into consideration. She believed the City has the ability to do some innovative methods to try and get people out of their cars onto public transit in reducing the trips and trying to keep the City Pleasanton City Council Minutes 18 09/15/98