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MEETING OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Mr. Lowell Beesley, 3673 Cambridge Court, read the following Petition, signed by 10 residents; relative to truck traffic on Santa Rita Road: "We are here to protest the action of the majority of the Pleasanton City Council, namely Messrs. Mercer, Keppard and Butler, in denying our appeal to prevent more warehousing uses on Old Santa Rita Road. We protest not only your actions but even more strongly protest the way in which they were done. We feel that the actions of Councilmen Keppard and Butler were not only unfair to the people they purpose to represent, but also, at best, deceptive. The refusal to re-open the public hearing, previously conducted without Councilman Keppard, was, in our Judgement, a disservice to the affected home-owners in Pleasanton Meadows. "Both Councilman Butler and Councilman Keppard met with a group of home- owners the Monday evening prior to your last Council meeting. We discussed in detail the problems created by a large over-the-road Kilpatrick's bread truck coming by our homes at twelve mid-night. We all thought a consensus had been reached in that this problem would be reduced if truck traffic along Santa Rita Road were limited to the hours of seven AM to seven PM. At no time was a six AM to twelve mid-night consideration discussed. Yet, by their remarks at the Tuesday night Council Meeting both Councilman Butler and Councilman Keppard implied that a six AM to twelve mig-night truck use would be acceptable to the home-owners. Nothing could have been further from the truth. "It seems that the majority of our City'Council is far more concerned with the welfare of a commercial developer (who by his own admission, has rented ninety-five percent of the building in question without the benefit of a conditional use permit for warehousing) than they are about their own con- stituents who will be disturbed by a Kilpatrick's bread truck passing their homes at mid-night. "Unfortunately, the majority of our City Council is far more accommodating to a Kilpatrick's bread distributorship than they are to the welfare of the dozens of families whose homes back to Santa Rita Road. "It is our opinion that the City Councilts actions were not only contrary to their constituent's best interest, but were simply unnecessary. The Kil- patricks Bread Company could have found an alternate location in the City of Pleasanton without running a heavy truck past a row of homes at mid-night. The other five percent of the building in question on Old Santa Rita Road could have been leased without a conditional use permit for warehousing. "In conclusion, we feel we were badly misrepresented at the last City Council meeting and request that the City Council take positive steps to reduce the flow of truck traffic along Santa Rita Road. To accomplish this, the follow- ing actions are necessary: 1. Take positive and concrete steps to open E1 Charro Road to the public; 2. Take positive and concrete steps to properly design and build the frontage road between the 1-580 interchange at Santa Rita Road and Old Santa Rita Road as shown on the General Plan. 3.Limit heavy truck traffic on Santa Rita Road to the hours of sevenAM to seven PM. 3. 9/18/79