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City of Pleasanton .STAFF REPORT April 1, 1987 HONORABLE MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBERS Pleasanton, California Subject: Authorize City Manager to Enter Into Release Re Hyde Park Public Easement Improvements. Honorable Mayor and Members of the Council: Background This item results from the efforts of five neighbors to obtain satisfaction for promises apparently made by the original developer of the Hyde Park project at a Planning Commission meeting in 1981. At that time, the proponent of the Hyde Park project promised the neighbors that their back fences would be replaced and that a row of eucalyptus trees adjacent to those fences would be replaced with a more compatible tree if the neighbors withdrew their opposition to the project. This promise did not get incorporated in the conditions of project approval. fin late 1985 and again in October 1986, the neighbors (led by Bob Persky) appeared before Council to request the City's assistance in getting the fences replaced and the eucalyptus trees removed. The subject area is a 25 to 40 ft. strip of land on the northerly side of the Hyde P~rk project. This strip of land was designated as a public easement area on the PUD fo~ Hyde Park so that school children from the adjacent neighborhood could proceed from Fairlands Drive to Fairlands School without having to walk all the way to West Las Positas. The neighbors' problem with the developer coincided with other problems which the City staff were having with the developer of the Hyde Park project. In fact, the City staff had refused to accept public improvements within the pedestrian easement area because of the incorrect location and elevation of the sidewalk which was causing a drainage problem to the neighbors and even to units within the Hyde Park project itself. Moreover, the Hyde SR 87:137