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So is this SUCH A GREAT Offer that Pleasanton would be crazy to pass it up? Some analysis tells us NO! 1 Why would Pleasanton ever consider building a second bridge over the Arroyo Mocho There would be NO reason for Pleasanton to build additional capacity to accommodate local Pleasanton tragic. The ONLY reason to build more capacity would be to provide traffic relief on our local freeways 1 So please Deep your second bridge! As for and 1 million dollars in offsite traffic impacts, these expenses should be paid for by the parties interested in developing Staples Punch. if Alameda County pays for these costs, then would this not represent a windfall to the developers Or should Pleasanton SAVE all the EXPENSE and simply not develop the land Do we need a massive auto mail with so many car dealerships failing ? Do we need a massive four rink ice facility with the economy in trouble ? Do we need another park (without soccer or football fields) in Pleasanton ? Do we need an expensive Senior Assisted Living facility next to a freeway Do we need another retail commercial center with so many others failing ? There are ALSO plenty of reasons listed in the Environmental Impact Deport that would make the development of Staples Punch Undesirable. VISUAL RESOURCES: The LOSS of the rural look and feel of Pleasanton when the open land along the freeway is no more. We will join other cities like Fremont as having a "solid city' look: not knowing which city you are in since its just one city after another. The AIR QUALITY will be even worse if we open Stoneridge Drive to El Charro. The current EIR shows that with just the EVA connection much less traffic) the ozone is already above thresholds used by the Bay Area Air Quality *Management District. So we are already above thresholds, and they want to add thousands more traffic trips along Stoneridge Drive I Crazy! Question : Building the SDE before Pleasanton has Regional roadmap is inept, fiscally irresponsible, and morally reprehensible. Inept - No plan in place: We are supposed to have a regional Road-Map of what improvements get built and in what order. We do NOT yet have a Regional Road-Map agreement where the local jurisdictions have all agreed on what infrastructure improvement should be made and in what order. Pleasanton needs to have Highway 84 expanded in order to reduce cut - through traffic and yet our Regional partners on several agencies continue to plane Highway 84 on the low priority list. Fiscally Irresponsible: Pleasanton will pay much higher ongoing road maintenance expenses I Since we know from the Triangle Traffic Study that 50% of the cars using Stoneridge Drive will be cut - through traffic No origin or destination within Pleasanton) there will be mach higher costs for road maintenance in the future which will be a burden on the City of Pleasanton. Instead of CalTrans paying for road maintenance due to all the traffic on the freeway* Pleasanton is going to make the sacrifice by allowing traffic to use Pleasanton streets for regional access. Pleasanton will pay for ongoing maintenance for our share of the traffic and 100 % more to corer the cut - through traffic that does not belong here! *Morally reprehensible: For most of us who lire along Stoneridge the price will be incredibly high in the LOSS of Quality of Life. Our quiet area will become a freeway bypass and our air quality will certainly be detrimentally affected. The noise, traffic, and crime within Pleasanton as a whole, are all certain to go up once Stoneridge Drive is extended to El Charro. All residents throughout Pleasanton will be paying the price to help Regional traffic! The Triangle Traffic Study shows that TRAFFIC GETS WORSE - not better; if the Stoneridge Drive Extension is implemented before other REGIONAL IO[ AL highway improvements are in place. So is it WISE for Pleasanton to step forward to Help the regional Traffic Need by opening up Stoneridge Drive to El Charro ? I think Not! Question