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problems would be to lower the price of a house. She understood that the developers conducted an informal survey in the Shadow Cliffs subdivision in which the majority of the homeowners in this location supported the expanded water park. Based on her conversations with Mr. Wolfe, member of the Board of Directors of the Shadow Cliffs Village Homeowners Association, he was concerned about the validity of the developer's claim that the majority of the residents in Shadow Cliffs favor the expansion. She pointed out that 25 percent of residents in Shadow Cliffs are renters, which means that they are only temporary residents of Shadow Cliffs and not affected by the risk of declining property values. Based upon what she has learned over the past few months regarding the increased traffic, noise and off-site parking in residential areas with the possibilities for increased crime, she believed that Shadow Cliffs and other residential neighborhoods in the vicinity of the water park would suffer a relative decrease in property values if the water park were expanded. She urged Council to protect and preserve the quality of the community's homes, neighborhoods and life styles by upholding the decision of the Planning Commission and voting against this project. Cameron Sullivan, 6334 Camino del Lago, a member of the No Water Park.eom organization, discussed the percentage of the total amount of Pleasanton residents that would visit the water park, and the location of the water park and why it is the worst possible location. She pointed out that from 1-680, southbound travelers need to drive five and a half miles to reach Shadow Cliffs, and northbound travelers need to drive four miles. From 1-580 travelers need to drive five miles to reach Shadow Cliffs and from other parts of Dublin, it is approximately five miles. She compared this to Waterwofld in Concord where the water park is barely a mile from 1-680 and less than a mile from Highway 242. She also noted that Waterworld is surrounded by office buildings and not residential areas. She noted that Manteca Water Slides is located three miles from Route 20 with nothing surrounding the water park. Raging Waters in San Jose is located less than two miles from 1-101 and less than one mile from the Capital Expressway. When one considers the distances between any major roads or freeways and Shadow Cliffs Regional Park, it is obvious that Pleasanton would have a completely different set of circumstances than these other cities. These are circumstances that cannot be mitigated. Logistics to and from the freeways are critical for many reasons, one of which happens to be that the developers are arguing that people coming to the water park will primarily be Pleasanton residents. She referred to the report conducted by William L Harrison on behalf of California Splash, and noted that the report implies that 53 percent of the people who will attend the water park are coming fi'om Pleasanton or the area. She provided background information about the firm of William L. Harrison and noted that this firm performs feasibility studies for developers of amusement parks, with heavy emphasis on water parks. When she contacted this company to see how it reached 53 percent, she was told that this information was proprietary information and could not be shared. She looked at the report and saw that the Pleasanton area was defined as a 5-mile radius around Shadow Cliffs. Based on her calculations, she discovered that two-fifths of the developed space in that 5-mile radius is Pleasanton. The remaining three-fifths of the developed space is Livermore and Dublin. Therefore, she did not believe the amount of visitors coming from Pleasanton was 53 percent; it would onlybe about 21 percent. She believed some Pleasanton residents will use the park, but believed Council needed to Pleasanton City Council 30 03/16/04 Minutes