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Mr. Campbell pointed out that the Las Positas course has 127,000 rounds per year and he felt that course was at its maximum capacity. Ms. Michelotti asked if the agreement with the developers to provide the water and sewer infrastructure was still valid. Mr. Lum said staff would reconfirm that, but it was expected that the agreement is still valid. Mayor Pico invited public testimony. Jerry Wagner, 6344 Alisal Street, was upset that the neighborhood meeting was held the day before the Council meeting. He felt the residents did not have enough time to review the information presented to them. He felt the matter should be postponed. There should be at least a week between the neighborhood meeting and the Council meeting. He said that Mr. Lum had told him the golf course would go in one way or another. If the annexation was not approved, the City would find another way. He said Mr. Lum said there was no way to get the bypass road constructed and there may never be a way, therefore Alisal and Happy Valley Road would have to carry all the construction traffic and 1,500 cars daily that would be coming to the golf course. Mr. Spotorno said it would cost $8 million to construct the bypass road and it was too costly to construct. Mr. Wagner said the annexation vote should be held first so Council would know what the residents of Happy Valley want and what other alternatives the City would have to use to construct the golf course. The City should stop spending money on this project. He felt Council was asking the residents to lose their rural atmosphere, have more traffic, and lose their privacy because of the trail plan. He pointed out that a golf course was #31 or #32 on the priority list for the Bernal property and felt that indicated the people did not really want another golf course. He referred to the $31 million bond to be approved by Pleasanton residents and did not think that would be approved. He recommended a postponement of this item. Bill Howell, 6651 Alisal Street, complimented staff on the report and disagreed with Mr. Wagner on some of the things he quoted from Mr. Lum. He felt the annexation was in serious jeopardy. When the proposal was originally presented, it nearly died because of traffic concerns. Someone presented the idea of a bypass road and that gave it new life. That was the foundation for support of the golf course project and annexation. He asked Council to direct staffto seriously review alternatives for the traffic. He said there was an assumption that without the golf course, there would be hundreds of units of high density housing in Happy Valley. He believed that assumption was wrong because without the infrastructure there will not be development. It is too far from the City for a housing developer to build the infrastructure and the City likely will not allow them to connect to City services if they are not part of the City of Pleasanton. He also believed the assumption that the area will be awash in vehicles is incorrect. If staff more carefully reviewed the traffic situation and Council can provide additional incentives, it is possible for the annexation to go through. Even if the City can bring sewer and water lines to the property, the remaining onsite costs still exceed the costs of installing new septic leach fields and a new well if necessary, which most of the residents would not have to do. He presented his calculations that indicated only sixteen cars an hour would be added to the Pleasanton City Council 18 Minutes