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John Spotomo, 1028 Harrison Avenue, Redwood City, said they were excited to see a new annexation process come before the City. His family thinks the golf course is long overdue and should be moving forward. Their concern has always been with the current Specific Plan and it has been mentioned by many speakers tonight. They have tried to bring a development plan to the City with SummerHill. That project was brought before Council. They learned significant environmental mitigation was going to be required, as the City had learned with the Golf Course Project. The creek crossing was over $1 million and the list goes on and on. The bypass road was attempted but was not successful. The current question now is how to accommodate the City's needs for the golf course with all of the money they have spent and still make it somewhat viable for the Spotomo family. Everything keeps pointing back, unfortunately, to the flat area, which is adjacent to most of the speakers heard tonight. There is no question, from a planning and development point of view, that this is the prime, least environmental sensitive area and has been farmed extensively. This site is flat, does not have a lot of heritage trees on it, and is wide open. It is by far the simplest area to develop and the public rights of way could be used to connect public services until you reach the point of where you are legally beyond the safety limits of the road. Some of the obvious places were pointed out tonight. This is by far the simplest connection anyone can come up with and have the least amount of detriments. This discussion about an alternate, while I agree, is not a bypass road, is another connection point. Any kind of development, whether it be the two acre development or something other than that, would need some sort of road put in there. That would begin to offset the golf course cost. It does begin to reduce some of the traffic and the desire to come up Happy Valley because it is at the one end of Alisal, as opposed to being down at the comer where the current access is. It starts to mitigate a little bit of lower Alisal. There is an opportunity to create an entrance because there is more room than the current Happy Valley/Alisal comer. There is an opportunity to offset some of the sewer and water costs. They also think there is the ability to do some environmentally sensitive things than were discussed earlier. They feel there are opportunities present to mitigate some of the issues. Ralph Adams, 1340 Happy Valley Road, discussed the change in plans now that the annexation vote of April is complete. A1 Spotomo, said that at several of the community meetings, they explained the financial difficulties in trying to construct the original bypass road. It was laid out to the whole neighborhood that it was not economically feasible. They had no builder or developer that would touch it. They engineered the bypass road at their own expense and it ended up being in the neighborhood of over $10 million. They were informed by several of the agencies that they would never get permission to build the road. There would be huge mitigation if they could get approval and it would be tied up for years; the permit process would be over four years. When they start talking about moving 800,000 cubic units of dirt and no place to put it, they are talking about an extremely high expense. Pleasanton's estimate of the cost of their share of the original bypass road is in the neighborhood of $5 million. Put that on top of your $34 million and see what you come up with. They think a reasonable compromise is to have an alternate bypass mad, Pleasanton City Council 28 06/04/02 Minutes