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needed on the Bernal property. She read the mission statement of the PAC with its five reasons for dedicating 5% of the property for housing. It supported the park concept along with the following: a small amount of mixed income housing can be successfully incorporated in a park setting along with the school, YMCA, arts center and other buildings being proposed for the property; location of senior housing on five acres close to existing senior services will help alleviate the critical need of lower income seniors who have to wait for years to get housing they can afford; the location of mixed income family housing/child care center near a transit station will provide a valuable service to the city, which received over six hundred applications for the 68 below-market units at the Promenade; the lowest density, most affordable housing in Pleasanton has always been built on city-owned land; and the voters of Pleasanton on two occasions have shown their compassion and generosity by supporting affordable housing that gives preference to Pleasanton residents and their families. She said she was speaking for the Th-Valley Interfaith Poverty Forum and the new PAC "Citizens for a Caring Community". Angelina Summers, 4750 Sutter Gate Avenue, believed that it was a conflict of interest for Councilmembers and Commissioners to be circulating petitions and wanted those signatures they gathered to be disqualified. Mr. Roush said it was not a conflict of interest. Libby Kolar, 17 Cali Court, assumed that Council would put the citizens' initiative on the ballot and the next step would be to educate the voters on the differences between the citizens' initiative and the Council initiative. When she circulated the petitions, not a single person refused to sign. Some people registered to vote in order to be able to sign the petition. The Bernal property is very visible and has been a point of contention for many years. She supported the Commission review of the Task Force recommendations. Each commission has a specific area of expertise. She remembered the concerns about the property during the General Plan update process when the proposal was for 1,900 homes. There was concern about infrastructure and traffic. She did not see that those concerns have changed. Trees have been removed from Bernal Avenue and there are more traffic signals. It takes her longer to get onto the freeway at the Bemal interchange and that is before there are residents on the property. She has purposely not viewed the model homes on the property as a boycott. Cindy McGovern, 9206 Longview Drive, indicated she was speaking as a resident who lives near the Bernal property, not as a School Board member. She said she has lost touch with what the Bernal Task Force was supposed to do. Was it to take comments and bring that to Council; was it to develop the list of top 10-20 uses for the property; or draft a specific plan. She believed the community also has lost the purpose of the Task Force. She believed she was part of a caring community and volunteers many hours for the community and the children. She support Measure I and she was one of the petition circulators for the Bernal Property Initiative. She is working to protect this property. The Interfaith Poverty Forum recommended that fifteen to twenty acres be set aside for one to three bedroom units at thirty to fifty per acre, or 250 units. They wanted five acres for seniors. They recommended three to four story developments at a density of 30-50 units per acre, or 450-750 units. That could be up to 1,000 more units on that property. She did not believe anyone could fully appreciate the impact of that until the 750,000 sq. ft. of commercial space is built there. Her biggest concern about the affordable housing Pleasanton City Council 12 05/21/02 Minutes