CCMIN101999 - Laserfiche WebLink

package deal and he felt the two issues were reasonable. He believed having a trail would invite kids into the area. If the City wants a place for them to play, then construct a park. If people want access, they can use the emergency vehicle access road, go to B Street and then onto Lund Ranch Road. He felt the gravel maintenance road would invite people to walk on it and to go to the creek area. These are invasions of privacy. The City can maintain the creek by just putting gravel in and letting wild grasses grow over it. Before we got to this point, New Cities had offered ownership of the buffer zone, but the Association turned it down. Now he wishes the Association had accepted the offer. Linda Butler, 1141 Lund Ranch Road, indicated she had paid a premium for her lot because of the open space. She said she was assured by City planners that there was no development or specific plan for that area. Later she found out there was a specific plan and she wrote to the Mayor. He wrote back and assured her he would protect her privacy and maintain the rural character of the hillside. She has spent two years fighting to preserve her privacy. The developer has reduced density and provided open space areas. Staff now insists that a public access trail be installed directly behind her home. She felt the Mayor should honor his promises and deny the trail. The trail will encourage people and dogs to traverse the hillside and enable visibility into her yard and home by the open fence design she has and the fact the trail is elevated. An alternate location would be an optimum solution so the promises made to us would be honored and would satisfy the desires of City staff to have a public trail. The trail is also contiguous to an unstable creek bed. The safety issues have been brought to the attention of planning staff, Commissioners and Councilmembers on numerous occasions. It is her perspective that the Council does not believe this is a realistic safety issue. She lives next to the creek and has seen children playing in the creek. She feels the trail will only encourage behavior that will result in problems. Council can remove any creek related problems by removing the trail and she asked Council to do that. The gravel road of twelve feet is excessive and she felt there were less disruptive options. She felt a park should have a play area with equipment. She researched the parks in Pleasanton with equipment and north Pleasanton has nine parks, central Pleasanton has thirteen, and the southernmost portion of Pleasanton has one play area for children. She ask why the City has not purchased property for a tot and youth play area park. Future residents would enjoy a park by the golf course. She asked Council to remove the trail, remove the gravel and buy land for a park. Frankie Lau, 1105 Lund Ranch Road, also opposed the trail, especially since it will be higher than his fence and he will lose privacy. He agreed the creek should be maintained, but did not want the road built. He felt it would invite kids to play in the creek area. Leslie Wolf, 6028 Alisal Street, stated that Greenbriar started work in April on Sycamore Road and she can barely get through to her property. They have recently connected to Sycamore and she can barely get through the road with her Ford Expedition, let alone with a horse trailer or hay truck. The street needs to be widened before it is paved. Her major concem is the bypass road for traffic from future development. She wanted it prior to the golf course. Without all this, the annexation will not pass. 14 10/19/99 Pleasanton City Council Minutes