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Janet E1 Gommel, 865 Clara Lane (Lot 6), said she has no intention of developing in the foreseeable future and is concemed about the plan cutting her property into two pieces so that Lot No. 3 can develop without having to put a road through Lots No. 1 and 2. She is not contesting the right to develop or rim the nursery but feel that Lot No. 3 should have the burden of the roads on his property and not on hers. She feels the City will pressure her to construct the road that will adversely affect her property while benefiting Lot No. 3. She has heard from staff that the are no immediate plans to develop Lot No. 3. If this is the case, she asks that this matter be postponed so a road will not be developed cutting her property into two pieces, making one of which will be unusable. lrmeli Vatanen for Brian Lin, 1504 Redwood Drive, Los Altos, had a concern with the requirement of planting the vineyards before the final 25% of the housing can be developed. She asked where this requirement is listed in the documentation. Mr. Rasmussen said it is written in the Specific Plan. The Specific Plan actually states that the vineyard has to be completed before 50% of the homes are developed. Staff is recommending that this amount be changed to 25%. The change is listed in the attachment to the Resolution. Ms. Vatanen understood the vineyards currently belong to the vineyard estate, but with this project they would belong to all the houses. The problem she has come across is that Mr. Lin might want to retain the vineyard estates for himself and only sell the other lots. In that case - he would have to run the vineyards himself before the other homes are developed. She would like the two issues separated; only require the vineyards to be planted before the vineyard estates are built. She has talked to several winery's and they have no desire to grow vineyards organically because it is too expensive. Mark Posson, 3036 Chardonnay Drive, said there is considerable concern about traffic, noise, and cut-through traffic, specifically in the Vintage Hills neighborhood. The Planning Commission did take some measures to mitigate the impacts, but not far enough to offset all of the impacts. He said the models used underestimate the traffic noise. The noise model used by the consultant is typically used for constant levels of noise, such as traffic from freeways. The traffic on Vineyard fluxuates. He asked Council to consider the mitigating meausres he recommended in a letter or look at his comments to the Planning Commission at the April 25 meeting. Ms. Michelotti asked him where he expected the cut-through traffic to come from. Mr. Posson said the Environmental Impact Report states there might be cut-through traffic as a result of this development. Brian Arkin, 3740 Newton Way, said this project only adds to all the existing problems and asked Council not to approve this project. He also asked encouraged Council to move forward on the purchase of the Bemal site. Pleasanton City Council 24 05/18/99 Minutes