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his neighborhood once in a while to enforce these signs. The signs helped his neighborhood a lot and they worked hard to get them. They should not come down just because people in other neighborhoods don't like metering on Sunol Boulevard. The people who are complaining and want to cut through Pleasanton Hills just want to save a couple of minutes waiting at the light at Sunol and Bernal. There is no good reason to cut through his neighborhood during commute hours. He urged Council to leave the signs or at least to separate the sign issue from the metering issue and consider it at a different time. Ms. Hosterman asked if the effects on that neighborhood would not be known until the metering experiment is concluded? Mr. Knowles said that was true. Metering was the ultimate solution and there was concern at the Traffic Committee about the enforcement issues. That is why it was agreed the signs would be temporary. The residents were told that within six months there would be abuse of the signs. Without intensive enforcement, that is what happens. He did not believe the signs were part of the traffic calming tool box and was only a temporary fix to address the residents' concerns. The neighborhood had been in the process for so long, staff wanted to give them some kind of solution. However, there was a bigger solution that would impact more neighborhoods right around the bend. He did not recommend removing the signs if the metering is discontinued. Traffic would be right back in this neighborhood. Ms. Hosterman asked if the signs should stay until the metering experiment is concluded, so there is not a situation where more traffic would be dumped into that neighborhood? Mr. Knowles said like the Junipero cut-through, it has been shown that by eliminating the delay at Sunol/Bemal, the cut through is eliminated. There is no reason to cut through Pleasanton Hills as a commuter so long as the metering is in place and the back up is eliminated. However, this is a commonly used route to Raley's and it would be expected that non-cut- through Pleasanton traffic to return to this street to access Raley's. Staffhas felt this is an inter- neighborhood issue and it should address the more serious issue of regional cut-through with the metering. Mayor Pico asked if Council supported removing these signs at this meeting. The consensus was not to remove the signs at this time. Greg O'Connor, 5750 Hidden Creek Court, said the metering issue is very difficult and very personal. He believed all those affected by metering are here to tell Council how they feel. He believed others in Pleasanton may be indirectly affected but did not feel they had to attend the meeting. He lives off Sycamore and Sunol and it is difficult for him to get home during commute hours. He remembers downtown being much more congested before the start of metering and he used to avoid going downtown because of that. Personally, he acknowledged he was experiencing difficulty from metering and the Sunol construction, but he felt the City would benefit overall from meter/ng at the major entryways into the City. It should be done in conjunction with the 1-580 on ramp metering. No one area should be considered for metering, whether Sunol, 580, or Vineyard near Ruby Hill. All should be considered at the same time. We need to keep people out of Pleasanton who are using it just for cut-through. We need to make Pleasanton City Council 17 02/18/03 Minutes