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Chief Neal pointed out that Chief Lapera's department has primary jurisdiction at the water park but inevitably, the Pleasanton Police Department does respond either at the District's request or by initiating activities. He reviewed the calls for police response to Shadow Cliffs for the year 2003 and noted that the Pleasanton Police Department responded 44 times; seven of those incidents were traffic stops, six were animal related calls, and six formal outside requests from EBRPD's police. The most serious crime was a burglary report and there were no assaults. The Pleasanton Police Department does not view the water park as a significant crime problem. The most significant policing problem the water park presents is on holiday weekends and hot weather days where overflow parking onto Stanley Boulevard becomes the number one problem. This project proposes significant additional parking. When viewing a project similar to this water park, police protocol is to look at a comparable facility in a similar community. A comparable facility will not necessarily be an indicator as to what happens in Pleasanton unless one finds a comparable community because a 7-Eleven coming to Pleasanton is not necessarily what a 7-Eleven coming to Hayward will be in terms of police service. He noted that Stoneridge Mall prompts the Pleasanton Police Department to respond between 1500 to 2000 times a year and generates between 350 to 500 arrests a year. Those figures are 50 percent of what the San Leandro Police Department experiences with Bay Fair Mall. He believed that Stoneridge Mall was one of the safest malls in California. He pointed out that any amenity that was added to Pleasanton would generate crime. The question is whether it will be a tolerable amount of crime, and will it create a hardship and become a burden or a nuisance, or create violate crime? He did not believe this would be the case for California Splash. He mentioned that he has been involved in speculative analysis for projects as small as the skateboard Park in Tmcy and as large as the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View. He anticipated that the expansion of the water park could cause the amount of calls for service that Pleasanton Police Department receives to double to roughly 88. He pointed out that each of the high schools generates about 150 calls for police service per year. He did not believe it would be a significant cause for concern about crime in creating an amenity of this size. The calls for service for a water park would be less than what the police department receives for an In-N-Out Burger, two 7-Elevens or the local high schools. Mr. Brozosky asked if the 44 calls for police service last year were for the entire park or only the water slide area? ChiefNeal said that the total number of police service calls for 2003 were for the entire park. He pointed out that several of the traffic stops were probably on Stanley Boulevard, which accounted for the way in which the calls for service are indexed. Chief Lapera pointed out that no alcohol has been allowed at the park for the last 11 years. He reminded everyone to remember that 5,000 to 8,000 people visit the recreational area on a normal summer weekend and no alcohol is allowed. Alcohol is allowed by permit only in the reservation picnic sites, which is the same provision that Califomia Splash is asking for, and what has been in place already at the existing water slide. A group may apply for a permit to consume alcohol only in the reserved picnic site. EBRPD normally has officers on site during the summer months. Shadow Cliffs Pleasanton City Council 21 03/16/04 Minutes