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see any information on the types of potential mitigations in Chapter 3.5, Hydrology and Water Quality, regarding their potential impact on wildlife, some of which were listed in Appendix B. He expressed concern for toxic runoff and biological oxygen demand as they are flushed across the property, as well as for emulsions, things with acids, caustics, correlated products, oil from automotive center, breakdown degradation of paving binders, trash particularly on the east side, animal waste potentially in dog parks, animals brought through neighborhood parks and surrounding areas, and the general stormwater runoff listed in Table 3.5-4. He recommended including in the report a recognition of how this can be dealt with. He stated that it is one thing to say in the Report that it might be a problem and another thing to have an analysis of the dimension of the problem and what actually would be required to deal with it, which would provide some visibility to what the level of impact is. He noted that the sources of pollution from animal waste is not often thought of, but it is hazardous material, just as oil that is coming like runoff from automotives that end up in the neighborhood park or the nine-foot deep detention basin, either as residue contaminating the park or the Arroyo. He indicated that he did not see those types of issues called out in the Draft EIR, as well as what other jurisdictions or technologies might considerably be available for adoption by Pleasanton as part of the actual implementation of the community park and the surrounding commercial property. He urged that these issues be given high prominence in the planning, actual execution, and conditions of approval for the project. John Carroll indicated that he had not had a chance to go through most of the documentation and inquired about the buffer along Arroyo Mocho. He stated that the latest park design revision shows the access road starting on the easternmost section of the Staples Ranch property and actually parallels the Arroyo Mocho fairly closely to the buffer area between the park development and the ice skating facility and the Arroyo. He indicated that he was not sure about the amount of traffic anticipated on the access road and that it was not clear whether or not the traffic study included traffic that the ice facility would actually bring. He expressed concern that the road from the westernmost end of the property to the commercial property would bring in a substantial amount of traffic. Mr. Carroll noted that the public parking area was located on the far side of ice facility. He stated that bringing cars deep into a park is not his idea of awell-planned park and that he preferred to keep cars, traffic, and access roads to the outside or peripheral area. He noted that he would also like to have a buffer zone between the project development that will take place and the Arroyo Mocho to protect as much of the wild life as possible. He requested that extra caution be taken in the easternmost section of the property where part of the commercial area and the park will be located as this portion has additional importance in terms of the habitat area. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED. Chair Blank noted that the Commission would review of the Draft EIR, starting with Section 3, Environmental Analysis. Commissioner Pearce clarified that the Commission would be asking questions and comments on areas it finds potentially inadequate in order to gain more information for the Final EIR. She noted that the Commission should limit itself to this task. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, May 14, 2008 Page 10 of 14