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Deputy Director Tassano said staff had already presented that idea to the City Manager. It is proposed that could be done in April. Councilmember McGovern referred to Attachment 4 (Local School Enrollment Estimates), which indicates there could be an increase in students of 1,500 or more. She wondered if the dispersed development plan should be modeled. Planner Stern said the enrollment estimates were from the latest projection from the School District and she assumed it reflected the consensus plan and build out. Staff has asked the District for its comments on all three alternatives in terms of whether it could accommodate them or if there were any comments. The School Board said it could accommodate all the options, but had some concerns about some of the TOD options it they included a higher percentage of affordable housing. The Board was concerned about the distribution of the children from that housing in one or two schools. Councilmember McGovern said she had read the report to say that the District preferred the preferred plan or the dispersed plan. School traffic in the morning is what really adds to the levels of service at certain intersections. Ms. McGovern then referred to Table 1 (Land Use Summary), and commented there is quite an increase in the amount of square footage. She noted there is a housing cap, but there is no cap on commercial R & D. When a traffic model is done, how does staff determine what numbers to use? Planner Stern responded that staff takes a broad look at the parcels currently vacant and uses the allowed FAR for the parcels and does a calculation based on that information. If there is a likely proposal to be approved, that is used for that parcel. Staff generally uses the worst-case scenario in terms of impact. Councilmember McGovern asked the meaning of "level of service is estimated on an integrated system basis rather than an isolated intersection." Does that mean we look at Valley and Santa Rita in comparison to others? Deputy Director Tassano indicated that is the type of model being used, a constrained network. In other words, if a level of service at one intersection is failing then the model will not send the traffic onto the next intersection. For instance, if 200 cars cannot get through the poor level of service intersection, it will not send those cars onto the next intersection. If more cars want to get through an intersection than it can handle, it spreads the peak time from one hour to one and a half hours. Councilmember McGovern commented on the problems on I-580 and Highway 84 and the need for improvements. She stressed the need for improvements to 84. She felt Stoneridge should be included in the studies for improvements. Mayor Hosterman summarized the three issues for discussion and the idea of continuing the policy of a constrained gateway community, a discussion of modeling the Stoneridge Drive extension before the environmental review process versus during the EIR process, and requesting staff to model the other two land use alternatives considered by Council some months ago. This would give Council the opportunity to review other land use alternatives including a concentrated residential TOD mixed use opportunity at Hacienda Business Park. City Council Minutes 6 January 30, 2007 Joint Workshop