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not just revenues. He suggested another tenant for the property and asked to think about its approval. Tom Gallagher spoke in opposition to the Home Depot. Sherryl Dennis sympathized with those who live in the proposed development area, suggested Home Depot improve or expand the existing store to add revenue as opposed to creating another big box on the opposite side of the town. Heidi Massie said she has opposed the Home Depot for a year as the store is not correct for the location at this time because of the already overly congested area. She voiced concerns with safety and felt more cars on the road will equal a higher risk to neighborhoods and asked the Council not to approve the project. Councilmember Cook-Kallio confirmed with Mr. Tassano that 650 cars would be coming in and 650 cars would be coming out per hour in the one peak hour on a Saturday and one peak hour on a Sunday, or 1300 trips. Nancy Allen thanked the Council for having the courage to step back on the project and applauded the work of City staff. She did not believe everyone knew there would be 1,349 cars per hour on Saturdays and Sundays, said today Vineyard and Bernal has about 1,000 cars per hour, she did not care what the technical LOS was, nor would anyone who answered the survey about traffic. What they care about is how the quality of life is affected, how busy and how noisy the street is. She asked not to turn the weekends into commute-stressed days. She said two Councilmembers were right when they said to her that the Home Depot traffic is less than what would be seen with a grocery store or Target or another retailer, but what scares her is that the traffic numbers are bare-bones. She asked the Council to look at the real numbers in the build out and felt Stoneridge Drive extension will not provide relief because more retail will be added, and she suggested making things better. Mike Manning applauded the work of staff and the cooperation with the Regency Center representatives, said he lives near Valley Boulevard, spoke in opposition of the project as proposed, cited LOS is not acceptable, felt the City would place residents at risk for traffic congestion, turn lanes will not be a popular solution in his neighborhood, traffic data projects significant weekend impact increases at 30% to 50%, said Regency's phasing of the project after certain road infrastructure improvements are in place have merit; however, Regency must be cautious that with a phased construction, they will be at risk of a smaller retail center, which will impact their economic projections. He asked City staff to only use build out criteria for traffic impacts if proceeding with atwo-phased approval process. Eric Warm, President of the Quality Doors of Pleasanton, said he was speaking on behalf of the Lights of Pleasanton, Kitchen Design Center, Stainless Glass Overlay, Floor Essence and Ray's Home Improvement Center, opposed the Home Depot project, felt there were many Home Depot stores in the area, said they are in direct daily competition with Home Depot and explained how it worked. Chris Beratlis said he has been in business since 1955 in Pleasanton, started the restaurant trend downtown which are still doing well, he supports staff's analysis and was very much in favor of the project. Dan Sapone spoke in opposition to the Home Depot project. City Council Minutes 12 December 4, 2007