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Commission and Housing Commission to ignore all the previous efforts and support a General Plan amendment to include housing. Affordable housing is more appropriate for consideration near the BART station. He referred to traffic studies done by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission which indicated 26% of the traffic on the Sunol Grade is from Pleasanton. He also indicated he had seen an estimate that 25% of traffic on a road is generated by people going to and from work and 75% is due to school and various errands. He asked if that was accurate. Mr. Swift said 25% is actually high, it is usually 18-20% of total average daily traffic. Mayor Tarver said he had heard 25% of traffic over the Sunol Grade is from San Joaquin County. Mr. Swift said that was possible. Mr. Cordtz indicated there was a major reduction in traffic when school is not in session. He also pointed out that this project would provide $9-12 million in fees and $400,000 to $500,000 to the Affordable Housing Fund. Eugene Bouchard, 6513 Arlington Drive, indicated he supported the concept of an industrial campus environment on this site with no housing. However, he was concerned about the size of the proposal; the height of the buildings relative to the setback; large parking lots; and traffic noise. Diane Sass, 462 Hamilton Way, did not feel Kaiser had worked in good thith with the neighborhood and cited misstatements and incomplete information provided by Kaiser. She said the 40 letters presented by Kaiser were written by Kaiser and distributed at the workshops. Many of those letters have qualifying statements on them and she urged Council to review the letters carefully. She opposed the project as presented because it is too massive for this end of town. This property is a gateway to Pleasanton and the existing buildings in the area are low profile that do not impede views. KaiseFs proposal includes four story buildings which will be massed in a way that is incompatible with the surrounding residential area. She objected to anything taller than two or three stories. She believed the solution was to reduce the square footage of the project. Another problem is traffic and she questioned the reliability of the models. She believed there would be not 1000 trips but 1300 trips during peak hours. She felt widening Sunol Boulevard would invite morn cars to use the road. The solution to all this is to reduce the square footage of the buildings. She asked Council to have Kaiser work with the neighbors, reduce the height of the buildings, the square footage, the traffic impact of this prqject, and to eliminate the plans for any buildings around the lake. Kristi May, 5833 San Juan Way, indicated that what would be approved at this meeting would only be a guideline and when Kaiser sells the property to another developer, the City will have to start all over. She indicated the Planning Commission objected to more than the lack of affordable house. She pointed out that the existing Pleasanton City Council 7 03/21/00 Minutes