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_ houses had been flipped to protect the arroyo. She noted that there had been a massive elimination of north-south options, and she was very concerned that it would become unwieldy upon buildout. She believed that the truck routes had been hugely misinterpreted in terms of the Municipal Code and the California Vehicle Code and should be revisited with respect to how trucks can use streets such as hers. She noted that they had a large number of heritage houses on their street, and they wished to protect it. She requested that the Planning Commission recommend to the City Council that all of those options and routes be kept open. Cyril Bonnano agreed with Ms. Garbarino's statements and noted that the last traffic count they received from the Traffic Department was 9,000 cars a day. He did not expect the General Plan Update to rid St. Mary Street of the cars but he requested that it be balanced. He believed it was important to consider the $12 million underpass at Del Valle Parkway as an alternative to get traffic out of Downtown and Main Street. He recently drove to the Rose Avenue/Valley Avenue area and noted that there were signs stating that the road would be open soon. He requested that those signs be corrected. James Paxson commended staff for the volume of work that had been produced. He noted that he had several small comments and corrections that would not materially change the Element: • Table 3-L• Hacienda Boulevard should be Hacienda Drive. • Table 3-8, page 3-22: With respect to the recommendation for future improvement at Hacienda Drive and Owens Drive to remove the crosswalk on the north leg of Hacienda River, he requested that that either not be done, or should be done as a last resort. They intended to implement their own planning efforts to make the area more pedestrian-friendly so would like the crosswalk to remain. With respect to the truck route map, he recalled that Hacienda Drive had been designated as part of the truck route. They told all their businesses that were not making local deliveries to pass truck traffic in and out of Hacienda Drive. Section 3-1: With respect to the issue of sustainability which he believed was a key part of the Element, he encouraged staff to add businesses as beneficiaries of sustainability. They encourage people to carpool or take transit to work, which would increase business-related sustainability. He suggested that the Element reflect the larger picture of land use, circulation, jobs, and housing all connected into a new, functional whole. Mr. Paxson believed it was critical to communicate the other larger planning efforts to the community. He understood that the buildout traffic model did not contemplate some of the improvements that were included in the triangle traffic study; he believed those improvements would make a significant difference on circulation within the community, primarily the improvements to Route 84. With respect to the commute alternative front, he believed the Element did a good job at suggesting that they were there; he wished to state that there were more in existence than were stated. He noted that the East Dublin/ Pleasanton BART station was a hub of over five different transit services; he did not think that people realized that this commute alternative network was located in town. He PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES October 24, 2007 Page 26 of 40