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i'4010 4 L j 1 11 .14' W� fa F February 3, 2009 Honorable Jennifer Hosterman, Mayor and Members of the Pleasanton City Council 200 Cold Bernal Avenue Pleasanton, CA 4566 SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL, Provided to the City Council After Distribution of Pac t e Data 3 0� RE: Approval of staples Ranch oevel pment Related Planning Documents Dear Mayor Hosterman and Council Members: Recommendation: On behalf of our more than 800 member firms that employ more than 15,000 area residents, we urge the City Council to respond decisively to changing times with prudent, fiscally - minded leadership to safeguard millions of dollars of City funds, protect our tax base, and create hundreds of new jobs, new senior housing, new recreational opportunities for Pleasanton families, and improve traffic circulation and safety. Specifically, we urge the City Council to direct City Staff to include the full build -out and completion of Stoneridge Drive east to El C arro Road as an option in the Staples Ranch Development Final Environmental Impact Report and Related Planning Documents, and find that adequate analysis and discussion has occurred to warrant its Inclusion. Further, we recommend expeditious approval of the entire Staples Ranch Planned Unit Development. Bak round; The Staples Ranch project and the Stoneridge Drive extension have been the subject of much study and numerous public hearings. The extension of Stoneridge Drive to El Charro Road was added to the City0s General Plan in 1986 after it was determined the extension of W. Las Po ita through to Livermore would be too disruptive to neighborhoods and inefficient as an arterial with its many cross streets and driveways. toneridge Drive was carefully designed to avoid neighborhood disruption while carrying its fair share of traffic in the north east quadrant of Pleasanton. The developed stretch of Stoneridge Drive east of Santa Rita Road was constructed to arterial standards with two lanes in each direction, substantially landscaped setbacks, sound walls with minimal cross streets throughout. In fact, no single family residential driveways front the street (Exhibit ), and with the exception of one block, residential areas are limited to just one side of the street.