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studies; it is only following the guidelines established by the City. This project will not worsen traffic congestion at affected intersections. Admittedly, traffic is a problem but the expansion of the water park will not make it worse. He pointed out that during the 100 days of operation, weekday water park traffic would be during non-commute hours and opposite the direction of commute traffic. On weekends there will be more vehicles and more traffic at affected intersections; however, those intersections and the volume of traffic going through are considerably less than that during the weekday, and well within the functional capacity of those intersection. City staff accepted the findings of the traffic study conducted by TJKM. The bottom conclusion is that this project will not worsen the congestion that is currently atthe major intersections. He was aware that some people have requested that a full EIR or a new master plan be prepared for the Park; however, the Park is already 95 percent developed. At the direction of the Board, EBRPD staff fit this proposal into the existing situation and over the past 13 years, staff has implemented every aspect of the Master Plan with the exception of the water park expansion. With this project, all of the development anticipated for Shadow Cliffs will be completed. Mr. Brozosky questioned the phasing of the project, as the applicant mentioned that he would consider making a compromise by building only a portion of the water park's expansion instead of the entire proposed expansion. Mr. Mikkelson said that CEQA and the City's planning laws require EBRPD to disclose and describe, for the purpose of making environmental evaluations and other types of evaluations, the full scope of the project that is being considered. Based on these requirements, the full build out for the Shadow Cliffs Park was presented to Council, and the traffic and noise modeling represents the worst-case scenario and how it will work. The plan that was presented to the Planning Commission was a phased plan and contained 75 percent of build out in the first phase and two additional increments, which would complete the Park. In response to Councilmember Ayala's concern regarding the phasing for this project or what it meant in detail, EBRPD prepared and distributed its current best estimate of a first, second and third phase plan. EBRPD is hopeful that this array is a starting point for discussions as to what will tndy fit on this site. EBRPD is also hopeful that it can work with the City to come up with a series of facilities and park attributes that would be phased appropriately, or limited to the first phase that allows the water park to be retained, expanded and modernized. He did not believe it was reasonable to expect the developer to continue to subsidize this operation $10,000 to $12,000 a year. He truly believed the water park would be closed if there were no future, and even retrofitting it in its current condition requires a substantial investment. The water park has lived out its time of usefulness and it needs to be redone and should be redone to be a modern, safe, and clean facility. The developer's choice is to make the water park oriented towards families. He believed there should be a compromise between the two extreme views because this is a good facility and it has worked well for many years, and many people, including Pleasanton residents, have used it and enjoyed it. This Park has served the region and serving the region is part of the goals of the EBRPD. Pleasanton City Council 22 03/23/04 Minutes