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up a lot of goodwill with the community, but this one failure makes us feel like it was just years of lulling us into a false sense of security. Per Vice Mayor Balch, this is official City policy. Apparently the City does not send notification cards when material rezoning is being considered (especially if a lot of sites are being rezoned), and only sends cards out once the rezoned projects are almost completely planned and hard to change. We ask the City Council to change this policy and send cards to residents living next to sites that the City plans to rezone. The new policy might mean that a lot of Pleasanton residents will get cards in years that Pleasanton does RHNA rezoning, but we think sending those cards out and getting feedback from Residents would be a good use of City resources. Pleasanton currently goes above and beyond by having a 1000 foot instead of 500 foot state minimum notification policy for proposed projects. Having notifications for rezoning would be another way to go above and beyond, and would put Pleasanton in line with other cities like Concord which have a rezoning notification. In a Mar 17th email (after the rezoning), Ellen Clark offered to notify some of the neighbors directly about any future Neal-related public hearings or meetings. That sounds great. Please include all the undersigned residents in the notifications. In addition to notification of public meetings, it would also be great to get notification of any public documents that include material changes to the future of the site. For example, over the last year the plans for the Neal Property changed from 10 houses, to 25 houses, to 28 houses (see attached PDFs), and it would have been good if the community was notified of such important changes. The Vineyard Corridor is a small, tight knit community and we think we'll be able to provide valuable input that will help make the project a success for all the stakeholders (PUSD, the CIty, the surrounding neighborhoods, and the future homeowners on the site). Point #2: Vision to make Neal Property a more modest version of our neighborhoods During the City Council Meeting on January 26th, the Mayor and City Council described how the Neal Property at 28 houses would be a denser and ‘relatively more affordable’ version of our neighborhoods. Since the re-zoning was done as part of RHNA, getting something more modest would be appropriate. The undersigned residents have embraced this vision, and want to do our best to help the City arrive at something that is more modest, but still fits and matches the rest of the neighborhoods and the Vineyard Corridor overall. That is the motivation for this letter. Our main concern is that we don’t want the Neal Property to end up with something that maximizes land owner revenue, but is not any less expensive than the adjacent neighborhoods and doesn’t fit in with the adjacent neighborhoods. June 1, 2023 2