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_ Imagine! 1 q-15~1~ Q~'~ : Imagine a city situated at the crossroads of two major Interstate freeways, in a region whose population is exploding, whose General Plan is so hopelessly out of date that it insists that all but two intersections will be maintained within the City's level of service standards at buildout? Imagine the City's Staff spending tens of thousands of dollars to conduct the Cut-Through Traffic Study in March 1998, and coming to the same rosy conclusion as the flawed General Plan, that only two intersections fail level of service standards at buildout? Imagine the Staff coming back five months later seeking approval of their Baseline Traffic Report, the basis from which all future traffic reports on proposed development in the city will be created, and telling the city that in reality, 25 Pleasanton intersections will fail level of service standards at buildout? Imagine a City Council being asked to approve the Baseline Traffic Report, a clear violation of the General Plan's level of service standards, when it contains no explanation of why there is such a huge increase from 2 intersections failing level of service standards at buildout in March, to 25 intersections failing level of service standards at buildout in August? Consider the fact that the Staff assumes that the city will be able to put all the traffic it wants to onto the freeways at buildout and that 25 intersections still fail level of service standards. Imagine how many _) intersections will actually fail level of service standards if there isn't unlimited Freeway Capacity? , Imagine a City Council being asked to approve the Baseline Traffic Report when it contains none of the findings of the their West Las Positas Interchange Community Advisory Committee, a bipartisan workgroup consisting of members representing all of the city's stakeholders? A committee who has spent hundreds of thousands of city dollars in it's effort to reach consensus on major issues that contradict the "best case" Freeway Capacity assumptions, the very basis of the Baseline Traffic Report. Imagine a City Council being asked to approve the Baseline Traffic Report when it ignores the Council's concern about the lack of Freeway Capacity? A concern the Council voiced on May 21, 1998 at their workshop when they directed the West Las Positas Community Advisory Committee to spend hundreds of thousands of additional city dollars to develop a Project Study Report to answer the question of Freeway Capacity. Imagine a City Council being asked to approve the Baseline Traffic Report when it ignores the Council's believe that Trip Reduction will be required under all scenarios? A concept they approved on May 21, 1998 when they authorized one hundred thousand dollars for the formation of the Joint Transportation Task Force to study Trip Reduction. Imagine a City Council being asked to approve the Baseline Traffic Report when they realize that Staff failed to inform them that they still have a lot of control over decisions about reduced density in the city. That Staff said nothing about this during the May 21, 1998 workshop when the Council agreed with the finding of their Community Advisory Committee that "development agreements for most undeveloped parcels are too far along .,,-..... to affect major change. II I Format ideas courtesy of our friends at Ponderosa Homes