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Mr. Swift said Ruby Hill is a gated community with its primary entrance off Vineyard. A secondary entrance off Highway 84 will be built at a later date. There is also an Emergency Vehicle Access road that leads into the subdivision. As each phase is constructed, there will be two ways to enter and exit. Ms. Ayala commended the ad hoc committee's work, but in looking at the big picture for the City of Pleasanton, she could not support a design that had only one entrance for the new residents and that sent all the traffic to Busch and Valley Avenue. This would not be fair to the School District. Ms. Dennis also appreciated the work the ad hoc committee did. When neighbors are against neighbors, it is a difficult problem. She commented on her experience with the referendum process. She understood the major concern with this project was the traffic, but she could not find that the traffic issue violated the General Plan. The issue was to reconcile the neighbors' differences and felt the ad hoc committee's plan did that. Her concerns were with the way the turn restrictions were set up, particularly at Kamp and at Mohr. She could not support the single entrance. It was not consistent with other neighborhoods. There is a high level of satisfaction with life in the City and the traffic levels projected are what are already being experienced in other parts of the City. Mayor Tarvet assumed the ad hoc committee would have considered all traffic leaving Busch Road as an alternative. He did not understand the Kolln residents being so upset about the potential of the traffic going through their neighborhood because a turn restriction could prevent this. There was a possibility for a win/win situation. He understood the objection was not to the project but to the neighborhoods' being impacted by the traffic. He understood there were other neighborhoods with only one way access. Ms. Ayala identified the existing neighborhoods that had one-way in and one-way out entrances. She could not support a one-way in entrance. If traffic is a problem then it should be dispersed. Mayor Tarver said no one will be happy with more traffic anywhere. If traffic is removed from one area by restrictions, then another area will be unhappy. Ms. Ayala said the General Plan is in place. We should plan what is left to be developed the best way possible. She felt dispersing the traffic made sense. Ms. Michelotti spoke about the street configuration in the Birdland development and that she thought similar street patterns with indirect access could have worked in this project. She agreed that the more traffic is dispersed, the better it is. However, as she respects the work and recommendations of the ad hoc committee, she will support its recommendations, except for the turn restrictions which need more work. She stated that Kolln and Kamp Drive have existing traffic problems that need to be addressed and wanted the traffic committee to work on this Pleasanton City Council 12/02/97 Minutes 17