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Transportation Plan on the funded list, which includes Highway 84. Without that, things would be substantially different. (He concluded the report.) Mayor Pico believed that because of the time there would not be a Council decision on this. There are twenty speaker cards and that will take two hours. There still is another presentation and Council discussion, and he felt it was clear no decision could be made at this meeting. He wanted to continue this to another meeting. He did not want to be discussing this after 11:30 p.m. and he felt it would not be possible to get to a lot of the speakers. He suggested that the minority report be presented and members of the committee be allowed to make comments. At that point, he would like to continue the matter. Ms. Dennis felt at that point everyone would have heard the presentations and could get copies of the report. Those who are not at this meeting could attend the next meeting to give their input. Ms. Ayala believed there are three things missing that she would like to have before she can make any decision. Ms. Michelotti pointed out that she would be absent from the next meeting and since she has started this process, she would like to finish it. She also wanted to make certain that anyone who cannot attend the next meeting be allowed to make a presentation at this meeting. Carl Pretzel presented the minority report. Mr. Campbell asked for clarification about the recommendation to do studies outside the CalTrans format. CalTrans ultimately has to approve any plan and he did not understand why we would want to go outside its requirement. Mr. Pretzel said the committee was told it could not do certain studies until the CalTrans PSR was completed. He felt the CalTrans process included a lot ofbeaurocratic baggage. He wanted studies about impacts around West Las Positas, the BART station, the noise around Springdale, etc. He was concerned that as the City starts to prepare the PR/ED study, it would answer CalTrans questions and not the City's questions. Ms. Michelotti also had a concern about losing access to 580. She had concerns about traffic backing up on City streets and the routes people would have to take. She asked Mr. Pretzel about his noise studies and asked if his concerns were basically for the west side of 680. He did not address what would happen if Stoneridge Drive was widened on the east side. Mr. Pretzel said he tried to address the concerns of the people most impacted. The biggest impact is the northwest quadrant where the ramps come close to the apartments. Everything else is less than that. The homes on the east side are farther away and there would be less noise impact. Ms. Ayala asked how Mr. Pretzel arrived at the figure of 1,400 students using West Las Positas. Pleasanton City Council 19 05/07/02 Minutes