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they think it is faster. He did not know what the interchange would look like if it is finally built, but he believed there would be two lanes in both directions with lots of traffic lights and still the elementary school children on Donlon will be affected, plus the four other residential areas. He was against the West Las Positas interchange because of safety issues. Laud Fehlberg, 5149 Willowview Court, was unable to stay for the meeting, but presented a letter for the record. On behalf of the Stoneridge Townhomes Board of Directors, she expressed opposition to any proposed widening of Stoneridge Drive. She expressed her belief that the language in the last General Plan update calls for a citizen advisory committee to recommend whether or not the interchange at West Las Positas and 1-680 is needed and felt it did not charge the committee with finding an alternative. She believed the citizens committee had been slanted to make sure the interchange is never built. There were no representatives of the Stoneridge neighborhoods on the committee and even though representatives attended meetings and voiced opinions against widening Stoneridge, they were ignored. She did not feel the committee represents a consensus of the community. She further expressed concern about increased cut-through traffic if Stoneridge is widened. She was also concerned about possible removal of the landscape buffer that exists along Stoneridge. She indicated she was the senior architect/planner for one of the East Bay's largest architecture and planning finns. She specialized in the design and entitlement of large scale master planned communities. She believed the 1964 General Plan did a very good job of anticipating the access needs of this community with respect to the growth of 680. The combination of the Bernal, proposed West Las Positas and Stoneridge interchanges do a good job of serving our town. Without the center link however, she felt the neighborhoods would be overburdened with more than their fair share of traffic. She supported building the West Las Positas interchange, especially since a good portion of the funding is already in place. She believed Stoneridge Drive is fully built out and asked that no further impacts are channeled there. There were no further speakers. Ms. Michelotti asked Jeff Knowles about the recommendation to go forward with both the studies for West Las Positas and Stoneridge Drive widening (Plans A and C). She asked if both need to be studied because of the interrelation of improvements that need to be done. Mr. Pico felt that was an answer that could be provided at the next meeting. Ms. Ayala felt there was information she needed before going on with this process. She asked when the baseline traffic report would be before Council. In addition, the East Pleasanton Traffic Study will rely on the information from that report and cannot come to Council until the baseline report is done. She wants all the pieces before she can make a decision. The third piece of information she wanted was a description of the potential funding mechanisms. If there is no money, we can argue and do studies year after year. Ms. Dennis said the CEQA process takes months and months, sometimes years. She would like to have that data plus any new data together with the new traffic model included in the scope of work. Pleasanton City Council 24 05/07/02 Minutes