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Ms. Dennis asked about the undergrounding of utilities versus moving the pole. Mr. Lure stated that PG&E and the City try to keep the utilities out of the street that have been paved within the last five years. Often new development changes the system to require those excavations. The undergrounding requirement is to the service lateral from the building to the PG&E system. That is the portion that is required to be undergrounded as a condition of the project which is typical of all projects in Pleasanton. Because this is going to be a City's capital improvement project, PG&E is willing to move its facilities to accommodate the street widening. It is not willing to put this underground unless the City is willing to use Rule 28 funds to do that. Rule 28 funds are very scarce, and there are no other funds available at this time. Ms. Mohr thought that the City gets $70,000-$80,000 Rule 28 funds per year. Mr. Lum stated that the City gets approximately $160,000 Rule 28 funds per year. It costs $300/foot to underground. Ms. Michelotti asked how this will be accomplished. Will be it undergrounded partly? Mr. Lum replied that the only portion that will be placed underground is the service lateral from PG&E's system to the building. If the applicant gets power off the power pole, the service will be underground from the pole to the building. Ms. Michelotti stated that PG&E will move the pole at no cost to the City. If these improvements are to be made, the plan is that everything is done at one time (the same time the development is taking place) so that there isn't disruption. Mr. Lum stated that the construction would be coordinated with the moving of the power pole. Mayor Tarver commented that it benefits downtown to keep the traffic moving slowly. He felt there were other ways to solve the truck problem such as in routing trucks elsewhere instead of making the turn at Ray Street. He felt it was easier to remove the bulb-out, but preferred to accommodate pedestrian traffic. Ms. Mohr commented that if Angela Street is looked at with its restaurants, what are the differences in terms of street widths and carrying capacity/truck movements if those streets were widened to forty feet (the standard for downtown). If this project were done as staff recommended, would it make this comer look like the ones at the other end of the block? Mr. Van Gelder replied that staff reviewed this as somewhat different than the other intersections on Main Street in that it does carry a lot more traffic than Angela and Neat Streets. What staff was trying to do was not turn downtown into a truck route but to try and accommodate the delivery trucks that serve downtown without the trucks' running over the curb 11/07/95 - 11 -