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Mayor Hosterman indicated there seemed to be two Councilmembers who supported Alternative B with the addition modeling in Hacienda Business Park. Council member Brozosky felt this has been difficult because that last time Council dealt with this was a year ago. It is hard to remember what was decided a year ago. He thought a decision had been made to model the existing land use and then model the preferred land use. He asked if the only model was to be the preferred land use. Director Iserson said the Council direction was to model the preferred land use with the preferred circulation network. Council member Brozosky felt because two things are being changed, it is hard to tell what is affecting what. He preferred a model showing the existing circulation and land use; a model with changed land use; and another model with changed circulation. Director Iserson said during the spring of 2005 there were a series of workshops where staff did model runs and analysis on existing plus approved land uses and tinkering with the circulation. Staff tried to show what circulation improvements would do what under existing land uses in an effort to move this process along. Staff started with existing land uses and built up from there, analyzing all different traffic assumptions, including with or without Stoneridge Drive extension and with or without other improvements with the existing land uses. Councilmember Brozosky said it was hard to see where everything left off and that is part of the problem with a process that is dragged out as long as this. He said it is not completely true that Valley is used for people to get out of the city. Many people who live here use Valley to get to their homes on the east side. That is a road used by people on the east side to get to and from jobs and to and from downtown. He was also in favor of keeping Santa Rita and Black the way it is. The three left turn lanes on Valley did not make sense to him and he was not in favor of modeling that. He commented the intersection of Santa Rita and Valley is already constrained to LOS F, and questioned why Busch Road would be added at the other end, which would only put more cars on the road. He believed there were too many traffic signals already and this plan is adding 17 more. The signals are not controlled well now and the problem will only get worse. Regarding whether to include TOD in the model, he felt if that were done, then there should be a model of all three alternatives. The city should not favor one particular developer. He wanted to do only the preferred or else do all three. Mayor Hosterman summarized there is Alternative B, which is on the table for modeling, with comments regarding adding modeling for the potential future transit oriented development site in Hacienda Business Park. There is also a butchered alternative, which she did not believe would provide any good, sound data. She asked if there could be consensus from Council to send a package to staff to model all of these items included in Alternative B, in order to get a clear picture so that in two months there will be reliable data for making good, solid policy decisions on behalf of the community. Councilmember Sullivan was happy to go with Alternative B and model all three alternatives. Mayor Hosterman said she could accept that, however, Councilmember Brozosky is saying this process has dragged on too long. She felt the object was to do a good job and General Plan Workshop Minutes 25 August 29, 2006