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From: Ted S.Chu To: lanirp Stern Cc: helen zhana Subject: East Pleasanton Specific Plan Options Date: Monday,June 10,2013 8:39:06 PM Dear Ms. Stern: We are residents of Ironwood Community of Pleasanton, and we are writing to express our serious concerns regarding the four available options for the East Pleasanton planning for high density housing. We moved to Pleasanton mainly for good schools and a community with 76°/' of housing units that are single family and owner occupied. So far we love the people and communities in Pleasanton. Unfortunately all the new options will create a community that is the opposite of rest of Pleasanton in terms of owners vs. renters and density of affordable housing. We strongly believe this will negatively impact our neighborhoods in terms of over-crowding our classrooms, lowering our API scores, worsening traffic congestion, and creating imbalance of high density housing in the city. Here are a few key points from residents of our community: (1) Ironwood community have been doing its fair share to support the city of pleasanton by providing supports for senior housing and active adults (over 55 years old) community. (2) The Higher Density housing should be balanced across the city to meet needs instead of being placed in any one are like the east side to protect quality of life and insure we create neighborhoods that are balanced. So we are totally against putting more than 1,000 units in the East Pleasanton area (3) The extremely high density housing should be placed further away from the the existing community, such as Iron Wood community, where there are a lot of senior citizens living in this area, and they are very sensitive to noise and traffic. This will also minimize the negative impact of the house value of existing community We strongly request one new alternative option with less than 1,000 units (similar to option 1, but need significant modification), including the following features (a) With at least 50% should be at the lower density, and 25% at the high densities. (b) Move High density to the edge of Stanley (instead of 1 at Busch, another at Stanley, as in Option 1), near the higher capability roadways to minimize the negative impacts on neighborhood streets; Can we even consider 1 high density close to the office area next to 1580 or near the BART station? (c) Prevent Busch Road to become a traffic collector (d) Move schools closer to the high density housing (e) Utilize the east side of Stanley instead of west side of Stanley We sincerely appreciate your consideration of our concerns as well as the input from a l from our community. Thank you. Best Regards