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applicant is concerned with many pollutants, but she believed they singled out particulate matter with most of the fine particulate coming from the road dust caused by vehicles. With the proposed BMX site and because of the gravel quarries surrounding the site, the highway will only get busier. She was concerned about carbon monoxide emissions and pointed out that this proposed water park would have four stacking lanes of idling vehicles on busy days. Studies show that diesel exhaust matter concentrations are much higher near heavily traveled highway intersections. District analysis shows that exposure to cancer fi.om diesel exhaust is most much higher than the risk associated with any other toxin pollution. Incidents impacting air quality standards for ozone are primarily on hot, sunny afternoons, which is when the water park would have the greatest number of children and vehicles coming to the park. The Bay Area Quality District Environmental planners have said that the District likes to see the worst case scenarios evaluated for air pollution. The Bay Area Quality District does not take averages and wants to examine the busiest holiday day. To be in line with the City's General Plan, she believed the City should review this proposed project for the potential to impact air quality conditions, which she believed was not done. Pat Smith, 2942 Liberty Drive, a member of the No Water Park.com organization, voiced her opposition to the expansion of the water slides at Shadow Cliffs Regional Park. She also addressed how the expansion might affect Pleasanton's property values. She mentioned that she has been employed in the real estate industry for over 20 years. She is a current administrator of a professional organization made up of over 1,000 real estate agents throughout northern Califomia who hold the certified residential specialist designation. She was informed by the one of the developer's representatives that its real estate sources showed that in areas around water parks, real estate prices have gone up, specifically around Raging Water Park in San Jose. After consulting with her peer experts, they all confirmed that reaiisticaily, no one could say with 100 percent certainty that the property values around a water park have increased or decreased because of its proximity to the park. The tree issue is the relative value of these houses versus other houses in the City, and eventually, its relative selling price versus other houses. Currently Tri-Valley property values are extremely favorable for sellers, hut in the future when the housing market cools down and there is more competition for homes, issues such as traffic, noise, location, crime, and price becomes very important. The most important factor that buyers consider when purchasing a home is location. If a home is negatively impacted by traffic, crime and/or noise fi.om the water park, a property owner is legally required to disclose that information to all potential buyers. The real estate agent representing the seller and buyer must also complete related sections and disclose any negative information they are personally aware of to all perspective buyers. She asked how many property owners would support the water park expansion knowing they along with a real estate agent are required to disclose negative traffic, noise and crime issues when selling their homes? All of the real estate agents she spoke with agreed that homes with negative information on disclosure statements are more difficult to market and sell, particularly when competing with similar homes that do not have the same issues. When a buyer is trying to decide between two homes and all other things are equal, the home with certain types of disclosure issues would probably lose. As a former real estate agent, she believed that in most instances, the only way to overcome these Pleasanton City Council 29 03/16/04 Minutes