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LL° • SIERRA /0._ N C LU B CITY OF PLEMSJINTON x-21 FOUNDED 1892 San Francisco Bay chapter JUN 112015 Serving the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Mann, and San Francisco CITY MANAGER June 4, 2015 Pleasanton Mayor and City Council Pleasanton Planning Commission 123 Main Street Pleasanton, CA 94566 Lund Ranch 11 Environmental Impact Report: Deviation from the environmentally sound option Honorable Mayor, members of the City Council, and members of the Planning Commission, In past recent weeks, the environmental impact report was released for Lund Ranch II. It contained the results of a review of a number of options for the construction of a modest number of homes and an access road. The Sierra Club's local chapter(which includes Pleasanton)has had members perform a review of this EIR, and they concur with the report's findings, and with the developer, that the Lund 41 Ranch Road access is the preferred environmental approach to minimize impacts and avoid construction on high sloping ground. However, it has come to our attention that the City of Pleasanton administration is proposing to overrule, and deviate from, the EIR and attempt to push a second road through steep-sloped ground. This additional road is not the environmentally preferred solution, and it will also likely to run afoul of Measure PP, which voters approved for the purpose of preventing environmental damage in steep- sloped terrain. It is therefore our earnest request that the City administrators use the EIR as the impartial planning tool and implement the EIR's preferred project configuration with the lower impact road that does not violate Measure PP. Sincerely,tia‘ 52a4,, Rebecca Evans, Chapter Chair Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter 2530 San Pablo Ave., Suite I Berkeley, CA 94702 Tel. (510/8 t8-0800 www.sfbay.sierraclub.org