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streets free flowing. She mentioned ramp metering keeps the freeway traffic moving. She said the roadways are built for residents to get to their homes in a more timely fashion. She agreed with speakers who said we need innovative solutions and she felt there was time to do that. In regards to the downtown area, it was expected to be over capacity and was not to be a north/south way across town. Mr. Pico felt the traffic models that the City has been using have not been completely comprehensive models. The models have only looked at the City of Pleasanton. The model needs to include impacts from the freeways and neighboring jurisdictions. He would like to look at buildout and a worse case scenario. He wants to know what the future holds for the intersections in the City. He felt there are intersections within the City at level of service E or F that cannot be fixed. It bothered him that Staples Ranch had not been included in the long term planning. He said Council needs to consider issuing a moratorium on building. How can Council do justice to the future unless the building stops? He wanted to have more of a realistic figure. He wanted to know how many intersections will really be at level of service F and what kind of storage capacity will future streets have? The first step is to get a valid assessment at buildout and how can the General Plan be modified not to have level of services at E or F? He would like to know how much the mitigation is going to cost. He wanted information so he would be able to make a good decision regarding whether EI Charro should be connected. Mayor Tarver said. the existing levels of service are within the General Plan ranges. There are mitigations on the books for existing plus approved projects that can be done. But he shared Mr. Pico' s concern in that no more projects should be approved until Council has better information. He does not like the projections being for only five to ten years. He wants to know what the capacity is after Hacienda is built out. He would like to remove discretionary projects from the approved list. He explained he does not want projects in the report that are not approved. He would like the models to show the figures for completed current projects. He did not want to entitle Hacienda to another 548,000 square feet or Kaiser more than what has been approved. He wants to work to get the numbers down to an acceptable level. He felt the model should include the effects of the Altamont Commuter Express. He agreed that a fee cannot be assessed without knowing who is going to pay for the mitigation. He did not want to approve ramp metering unless everyone in the corridor was going to share the burden, so keep it out of the model. He wanted recommendations from the West Las Positas Committee included in the model. He thought the model might need to be adjusted regarding travel speed on 1-680/1-580. He agreed this is a significant problem and does not want to ignore the problem. He would like to address his comments before continuing on with the process of further approvals. He mentioned a letter from the CMA stating a Notice of Deficiency for 1-680 and that it was the City of Pleasanton's problem to resolve. Is 1-680 deficient or not? Mr. van Gelder said as far as CMA is concerned 1-680 is no longer deficient because the City melded all the County to County trips together. The City will not lose its portion of gas tax money. Pleasanton City Council Minutes 19 09/15/98