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It was moved by Mr. Pico, seconded by Mayor Tarver not to certify the supplemental EIR. Mr. Pico said he felt the EIR was insufficient. Ms. Ayala asked if he would list the items he felt were insufficient. Mr. Pico said there was no adequate traffic study that showed the cut-through traffic. Ms. Dennis asked if Stoneridge Drive going through to E1 Charro was essential to the project? Mayor Tarver said he had trouble understanding the environmental document in regards to what and how it would be done. Caltrans required interconnections and parallel routes for significant diversions of traffic during problems on the freeway. There was a good rationale for these. He had heard there would be ramp metering installed. The freeways are broken down and there is no money to fix them. He was not sure he wanted the arterial paralleling the freeway, because the system is not functioning properly. Both Danville and San Ramon had corridors of extra lanes of freeway but they filled up. Communities were getting stuck with the problem of regional and interstate traffic but no one wants to take care of it. Until this problem was solved, he did not know what to do. The environmental document was not making any Sense° Ms. Ayala said Stoneridge Drive was written in the General Plan connecting to E1 Charro. The developer only did what the General Plan asked. The project itself did not require the connection. Ms. Dennis said her concern was the timing issue. She felt a considerable amount of things needed to happen before the parallel route would function properly. She saw no need for anything until the flyover was built. The gravel truck issue would continue to be a problem. There was no need to rush and build a parallel route if it was only in Pleasanton. Ms. Ayala said she thought the same thing, but why not have the developer build the parallel route. Ms. Dennis said she expected the developer to provide for Pleasanton's fair share but not to build the route. Ms. Michelotti said the problem was getting the funding to build the parallel route. The project would be approved in today dollars but in the future it will cost the City a considerable amount more. One of the pluses of the proposed project was that there was 13 million dollars worth of improvements. The history of Pleasanton was to get development to pay its own way. It was important to have an access from the freeway to get to the sports park. Otherwise all the Pleasanton City Council 04/15/97 Minutes 17