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Mayor Pico asked if laterals from the Alisal lines would be constructed to the edge of the street to provide for future connections if the owners so desire? Mr. Grubstick said that was correct. Mr. Barletta indicated there are many who live on side streets who gave up a lot, including water and sewer, when they voted against annexation. He asked if the lines would go into side streets or strictly down Alisal Street. Mr. Grubstick said the current plans call for bringing main line stubs to the side streets, but not down the side streets. If annexation had been approved, the lines would have gone down the length of the side streets. Deirdre Gipson, 6187 Alisal Street, said the golf course would be a beautiful project and she felt most of the residents would agree. The original annexation proposal was defeated because of the bypass road. The residents gave up a lot because they felt so strongly about the bypass road. We are now in the position of not getting sewer and water and also not getting the bypass road. Because of the lawsuits and other things, it is possible to lose the golf course as well because of the lack of a bypass road. She urged Council to make the bypass road happen. John Spotomo, 1028 Harrison Avenue, Redwood City, indicated his family supported the staff recommendation to remove the conditions added by the Planning Commission. He referred to all the discussion about the bypass road and the finger pointing. He said in the development process, there are a lot of unknowns that have to be worked out as the project is formulated. His family is motivated to move forward with whatever studies need to be done. There have been many suggestions for alternative bypass road routes. His family has spent many hours and much money with their engineers trying to find altematives for the road. The Summerhill project engineers had estimated it would cost $10 million to develop its section of the road and another $5 million for the road to the golf course. That did not include acquisition of the land or costs of the various mitigations required. There would have been 800,000 cubic yards of soil to be removed from the original route. That was proposed to be moved to the golf course, but it would have had to change its plans and elevations. There was also a potential dangerous slide in the prior bypass road route which had serious impacts. A1 Spotorno felt there should be a workshop on the bypass road. He felt there were new people on Council and the Planning Commission that do not understand all the work that has gone into this project. All the speakers this evening seemed to focus on the money for the bypass road and that is only one issue. Three civil engineers have been involved in design of the bypass road in the Specific Plan. The previous road location cannot be built for any amount of money. There is no way to mitigate the loss of oak trees; the Army Corp of Engineers will not allow it close to the existing stream; the Regional Water Quality Control Board requires use of the existing roads; and the horror stoW goes on and on. The route would require a fifty foot cut into the hill that would be visible from Danville. The Sierra Club and other environmentalists object to disturbing the hills like that. This is not a question of money. Many more studies are necessary. There is a major slide area that cannot be involved in any development. They have Pleasanton City Council 18 09/17/02 Minutes