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Letter to City Council from Residents of Neighborhoods next to the Neal Property Dear Members of Pleasanton City Council, City Staff, Planning Department, Planning Commission and PUSD Board, We, the undersigned residents of neighborhoods next to the Neal Property, have had several neighborhood meetings regarding the site following the City’s rezoning. Mayor Brown and Vice Mayor Balch each attended one of these meetings and saw the large turnout and level of interest in this topic among the residents. We’d be happy to set up additional meetings for any City Council Members or Staff that would like to hear direct feedback from our community. In these meetings, there has been a lot of consensus among the neighbors about the points we’d like to get across to the City about the recent rezoning and future development of the Neal Property. We summarize the points below. Point #1: Notification via yellow Postcards for Future Rezonings Point #2: Vision to make Neal Property a more modest version of our neighborhoods Point #3: Stick to the adopted zoning of 21 to 28 houses Point #4: Enforce Lower Square Footage than Adjacent Less-Dense Neighborhoods Point #5: Neighborhood Park next to Old Vineyard Trail Point #6: Comply with the “Vineyard Village” concept in the Specific Plan Point #7: Utilize and connect existing external roads (Thiessen St and Manoir Ln) Point #8: Respect setbacks and minimum lot dimensions Point #9: Have a mix of 2-story and 1-story houses like the surrounding neighborhoods Point #10: Improve road safety of intersections with Vineyard Ave Point #11: The City should give guidance to the Land Owner/Developer Point #1: Notification via yellow Postcards for Future Rezonings Over the years, we’ve all received dozens of yellow notification cards about development plans in the Vineyard Corridor area (including small single-house developments that did not deviate from the specific plan and were not particularly close to our homes). We don't understand why there were no yellow notification cards sent out for such a dramatic rezoning to 28 houses right next to our neighborhoods. As far as we can tell, not a single homeowner in the surrounding neighborhoods was aware of the City's rezoning plans until right before final approval (when one undersigned resident received an email from a community watchdog group). We previously felt that years of notification cards built June 1, 2023 1