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CITY OF DUBLIN 100 Civic Plaza, Dublin, California 94568 Webaite: http://www.ci.dublin.ca.us October 22, 2008 Robin Giffin City of Pleasanton. P.O. Box 520 Pleasanton, CA 94566 Subject: Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment/Staples Ranch Envhonmental Impact Report Deaz• Ms. Giffm: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the draft Specific Plan Amendment and Final Enviromnental Impact Report (FEIR) for the Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment/Staples Ranch project. The Staples Ranch project area contains approximately 124 acres of undeveloped land within the larger 293-acre Specific Plan area and is bounded by Interstate 580 (I-580) and the City of Dublin to the north, Arroyo Mocho to the south, the eastern edge of Pleasanton to the west, and the City of Livermore and El Charro Road to the east. The proposed project would include amendments to the Specific Plan to revise planned land use designations, development intensities, and circulation patterns to allow development of an auto mall, seniot• continuing care' facility, public park, acrd related infrastrucnue improvements. The City of Dublin has reviewed as part of the FEIR tha responses to Dublin's convnents submitted to the City of Pleastutton on June 4, 2008. We appreciate the effort put forth to respond to each of the comments. As part of the Planning Commission review of the project, the City of Dublin would respectfully like to submit the following convnents: Mitigation Measure TR-2.3 itulicates that the City of Pleasanton is willing to "ensure that projects it approves contribute fair share mitigation cost for improvements in other jurisdictions but only if the other jurisdictions are also willing to reciprocate for projects within their jurisdictions that contribute considerably to traffic occurring within the City of Pleasanton." The City of Dublin recognizes Pleasanton's willingness to work cooperatively to insure that mitigation measures are implemented in otherjurisdictions but respectfully disagrees that the City of Pleasanton is only obligated to do so if the other jurisdiction "reciprocates" in similar circumstances. Reciprocity is not a component of the analysis of whether a mitigation nteasute is feasible. Thus, Dublin expects Pleasanton to condition the projects that it approves to pay those projects' fair share of the cost of the improvements necessitated by those projects, notwithstanding the fact that the cities had not entered into a binding agreement to enstue that Dublin would reciprocate under similar circumstances. 2. The City of Dublin strongly encourages the City of Pleasanton to construct the extension of Stoneridge Drive for use as a public roadway either as part of the project or otherwise concunent with. the project. The Stoneridge Drive extension Itas been assumed in the City of Pleasanton General Plan and consequently assumed in Tri-Valley transportation planning for more than a decade. The Stoneridge Drive extension not only has been envisioned as a parallel facility and relief