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discussion. He also wanted to remove the Rose Avenue extension. He wanted a __ model to see what would happen if there were an underpass going on Santa Rita south making a left turn onto Valley, so there is no reason to stop at that intersection. In addition, he wanted another underpass from Valley making a left onto Stanley with no signal requiring a stop. Perhaps it won't work, but he would like to see what would happen. He wanted to see other ideas for the problem intersections, without building the West Las Positas interchange and the Stoneridge extension. Ms. Fox felt the understanding was that the interchange and street extension were to come up at the end of the process with the EIR. She was surprised to see them at this point. She wanted to focus on models 1 and 2. When focus is on 3 through 5, there is no way to estimate how many cars would come off the freeway into Pleasanton. That all depends on freeway delays and the direction of travel. There are many variables depending on the economy. She felt it made more sense to focus on models I and 2. Mr. Blank agreed it made sense to look at models 1 and 2. He also felt the street extension and interchange would be at the end of the process. He could not see a scenario where a decision would be made to include them even if they were discussed at the end of the process. If staff believed the process would be easier to review them now instead of later, then he agreed with Mr. Arkin that the absolute minimum amount of work be done to fulfill legal requirements. He was a little worried about some of the assumptions in the models. He was sure the traffic engineers in 1996 were just as -- convinced this was a great tool, but there are some things a tool just cannot provide. Mayor Hosterman felt it was important to look at all the data and would like staff to run all five models, knowing full well that the extension and interchange will never occur. She felt Mr. Arkin's idea about underpasses was intriguing and deserved discussion. She believed that the more data and information there was, the better it would be to understand the impacts throughout Pleasanton that need to be addressed. She has had discussions with other mayors in the Tri-Valley and they have grave concerns about what Pleasanton may do that could impact their communities. There was a proposal that would require Pleasanton to go through these model runs through the triangle study process, which is a regional look at getting traffic moving. As those discussions occurred, Mayor Hosterman made it clear that Pleasanton understood their concerns and were willing to address those concerns. She said Pleasanton's internal process would include model runs for all options and would be a public process. Once the information is gathered and mitigations were proposed, there would be discussions with the mayors of surrounding cities. The mayors were then willing to support Pleasanton and go to the Congestion Management Agency to say the models would be run internally and did not need to go through the process at the county level. She felt running all five models would make sense and show regional cooperation. Regardless of Livermore or Dublin's perceptions of what Pleasanton is doing, it is important to work collaboratively. She asked Councilmembers to support all five model runs to get all information possible. Mr. Sullivan assured the audience that the issues of West Las Positas interchange and Stoneridge Drive extension are more than campaign promises. He got started with city issues because of the proposed interchange in his neighborhood. He Joint Workshop City Council and Planning Commission 15 05/24/05