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to what kind of money will be received fi:om the Federal government and how it will be allocated, and until it is figured out how traffic congestion will be resolved throughout the region. She wants to be able to use the very best that Pleasanton has and the very best this community has is the 2003 Baseline Traffic Model. If Council discusses a different type of project, she would like for the appellant's traffic consultant to use the City's latest traffic model in order to provide good solid numbers. In looking at the traffic models, Mr. Brozosky pointed out that the traffic at Stanley Boulevard, Valley Avenue, and Bemal Avenue will be the same if the 2000 or 2001 Baseline Traffic models were used. The trip generation will be the same no matter what traffic model was used. The first intersection located near the project will be the same. Where the traffic model is different is downstream in calculating where the traffic is coming from. Ms. Ayala asked staffto clarify this matter. She thought that the new traffic model was used. Jeff Knowles, Deputy Director/Transportation, said that staff provided the City's 2003 Baseline Traffic Report base data for existing and approved land development project conditions to the applicant's traffic engineers, which are sometimes referred to as the 2010 Traffic Volumes. The 2003 Baseline Traffic Report is called the synchromodels where stafftakes the model data and inputs it into a software package that creates the simulations that are used for all of the LOS calculations. He believed the traffic consultants had taken the project traffic and added it to what was included in the baseline report and then presented to Council what the LOS would be and the animations for Stanley Boulevard and Valley Avenue, which was based on the 2003 Baseline Traffic Report, existing plus approved traffic, plus what the consultants believed the project traffic would add to that scenario. Ms. Ayala asked if Highway 84 improvements were included. Mr. Knowles said no. Ms. Hosterman stated that the project traffic numbers are based upon project patron numbers and the project patron numbers go through year five of the six-year phase. Therefore, it is unknown how many patrons that the water park will have when the project is completely built out, which is her point. She did not believe this information was solid enough. She mentioned that she asked this question several weeks ago and she did not receive an answer. Mayore Pico asked Mr. Knowles if, in his professional experience and based upon his knowledge of the traffic model and the traffic conditions of the City, he anticipated that this project as developed and as built out according to the plans will have any significant impact on the traffic in the City of Pleasanton? Pleasanton City Council 8 03/30/04 Minutes