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Mr. Swift said two. Kamp Drive south of Mohr residents have stated they do not want any traffic calming devices implemented. Mayor Tarvet declared the public hearing open. Peter Cohen, 1602 Martin Avenue, representing the ad-hoc committee, thanked and acknowledged everyone involved. He said the Committee understood its instructions from the City Council was to come to a recommendation that addressed in some measure the major concerns of all four neighborhoods. The committee did not feel Council would accept a recommendation where only three out of the four neighborhoods agreed. During the five months the committee identified issues, separated out the core issues, and then took the "must haves" from "what would like to be seen." Ponderosa generated a proposed development map. After some fine tuning, a final proposal was developed to go along with the recommendations. The committee's recommendations is not perfect. In order to be perfect it would have to satisfy everyone. The committee's goal, which he believed it achieved, was to address all identifiable issues to reach a middle ground. No neighborhood will get an intolerable situation, the emergency response times have been deemed acceptable and the project was approved by the Planning Commission. The committee asks the residents who might be inconvenienced by the turn restrictions to realize the traffic projections need to be addressed whether or not this project is approved. It does not make sense to remove traffic from certain streets only for it to show up on other streets. The main objective should be to divert the traffic to arterial roadways. Now Council must decide whether the committee followed the right course and how and whether to implement inconvenient and unpopular turn restrictions. In order to work, the committee's recommendations need to be implemented as a complete package. He urged the Council to explain its decision so people would not leave the meeting angry and for those that pursue a referendum to remember that a referendum does not dictate what should be done, only dictates that a particular project would not go forward. The committee's recommendation gives the lowest density that anyone could expect on this many acres, has a street design with no cut- through traffic, terminates Mohr Avenue, and protects against possible future E1 Charro traffic. This project can only increase the neighboring property values. Nate Meeks, 6671 Owens Drive, said Ponderosa has been working on the project with various site plans since April 1995. He believed Ponderosa has worked within the structure that was created by the Council with the neighborhood committee to come up with a consensus plan that fulfills the concerns of the four neighborhoods. He supports the plan as submitted by the ad hoc committee. Laurie Klin, 1535 Kolln Street, said as part of the ad hoc committee, she worked hard to develop something that would distribute the traffic fairly. Adding 3,000 more cars to Valley Avenue would be asking for trouble. Some of the members of the minority group suggested putting a barrier on Kolln at Morganfield, stopping traffic completely, but she believed the cars would still cut through by a different route. Pleasanton City Council 12/02/97 Minutes 13