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John Butera said he used to cut through Hayward over thirty years ago, before BART, and people are still using that same cut through route. He stated there are many routes to use to cut through Milpitas. He believed the traffic model was a waste of money. He indicated the traffic around the Bay Area has been bad for years. He mentioned related websites that tell traffic information and commented people will always avoid traffic where possible. He does not see how Stoneridge extension could help Pleasanton. He indicated that there were related signal patterns on EI Camino Real on the peninsula and suggested similar signal changes in Pleasanton so that in the evening around 9:00 p.m. and on the weekends, the signals should go to flashing yellow and he urged increased traffic enforcement. Mayor Hosterman indicated Council had recently held its priority setting workshop and one of the priorities is a traffic signal workshop to discuss coordination. James Paxson asked Council to consider TOD development at this phase of the evaluation. He believed the Hacienda Owners Association had a lot to offer at an important time in the Council deliberations. He said the Association was willing to contribute funding to the process and urged evaluation of the TOD at this time. Brian Arkin said he strongly supported a high density, transit-oriented development at the BART station. He believed that would go a long way to reduce further impact of locally generated traffic in Pleasanton. He indicated the idea of flashing yellow lights was intriguing and asked if the traffic engineers were aware how it worked in other cities. He referred to the Specific Plan of his subdivision and read a section regarding the noise mitigation and the requirement for 33-foot setback for housing and a 5.5-foot sound wall on a three foot landscaping berm. He said none of that has been done. He believes assumptions about traffic around a school would be pretty good. He suggested some merit weight for factors to see how good a model is for a particular site. He also said it would be nice to have some "guestimate" for the accuracy five or ten years in the future. He then mentioned items he would like to see removed from the General Plan for community character reasons. One is the West Las Positas interchange, which he supported removing because of the traffic impact on the neighborhoods. He further noted he supported constrained gateways. David Bouchard representing the Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce, urged Council to model the Stoneridge Drive extension sooner rather than later. He presented a copy of a letter from the Chamber to the City Clerk. Judy Symcox supported the Stoneridge extension model now and also requested a model of the Busch Road extension to EI Charro. She wanted the same standards used on both. She also commented that according to the Pleasanton Weekly, Scott Haggerty, President of the Board of Supervisors, is recommending that the Stoneridge extension go through. She noted that Mr. Haggerty will be the vice chairman of MTC and will participate in allocating funding. There be no other speakers, the public comment period was closed. A break was taken at 9:17 p.m., and the meeting reconvened at 9:25 p.m Mayor Hosterman invited the Commissioners to make comments. City Council Minutes 12 January 30, 2007 Joint Workshop