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the DEIR, I truly believe that they do not want you to make an informed decision on the Visual Impact of this project. “This project is not a park project. The parks people as well as the rest of the citizens of Pleasanton fully support this portion of the project, and rightly so. It will be a great addition to the City. ”This project is not a traffic project. The Kottinger Ranch Homeowners Association primarily supports this project because it gives them the least traffic through their neighborhood that they can reasonably hope for. The letters and comments in support of this project primarily address these two aspects. housing project “This project is a ! (House building), one that puts massive houses on some of the most visible ridgetops in the city. As such, the visual impacts of this project should have been of the utmost importance when evaluating this project. “Unfortunately, staff has spent more effort obscuring the project’s permanent visual impacts on this city than they have on assisting you and the citizens make an informed and unbiased decision. The identified significant environmental impact A2 was that ‘Some homes will appear undesirably prominent.’ “In their visual analysis of this significant impact they employed four distinct dishonest techniques to minimize the perceived magnitude of this impact. “Views: First, they chose to evaluate the prominence from only three points of view. Two of them from the perspective of less than two dozen homes to the east of Court 1, and one very deceptive photo from the area near McDonald’s. “The view that adversely affects probably the most citizens is Court 1 from the west. Not only does this view of Court 1 affect close to a hundred yards, houses and windows of nearby Kottinger Ranch and Vintage Hills, the houses on Court 1 will be prominently visible to more than half of the new Bernal Property Parklands, the entire grandstands and golf course on the County Fairgrounds, the eastern houses and streets of the Bernal Property Homes, several locations along Bernal entering the city, homes and streets on the ridge and along Foothill, the northern portions of Augustin Bernal Park, the Bernal- Stanley intersection and the southern portion of the Busch property, to name a few. “This view of Court 1 from the west will be of the most prominent and no objectionable kind; massive ridgetop buildings with hills behind, only sky. Staff mistakenly states that, ‘The views of homes on ridges are backed by PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES June 13, 2007 Page 22 of 29