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protection initiative, not a hillside expansion initiative," and so Commissioners should take a "conservative view" when interpreting PP. That is consistent with the first words of the Measure: "Ridgelines and hillsides shall be protected." And it is further supported by the citation, in the ballot materials, of "a mile long road spanning the top of many of our Southeast Hills" and the "Happy Valley by-pass road" as the sort of developments that PP would bar. This tips heavily in favor of considering roads as structures. Exhibit B to Mr. Dolan's August 25 memorandum paints a bleak picture of the impact of building a connector to Sunset Creek: • Between 1.5 and 2.7 ants of grading (equivalent to the size of 1.4 to 2.6 football fields) • Movement of 812—1,234 truckdoadr of dirt • Construction of 187 —1,185 linear feet of retaining wall, at a height of between 8 and 12 foot tall • 12—21 heritage trees removed At Attachment 1, I have included some photos displaying the sort of grading occurring presently at another development, on slopes above the south side of Vineyard Avenue, off Pietronave Road and Silver Oak Ave (just past Western Garden Nursery). This is the exactly sort of thing the PP voters wanted to prevent happening to hillsides, but is the very sort of thing necessary to do when grading and building a road. Traffic There were numerous witnesses who offered anecdotal accounts regarding traffic along Junipero. I think it is safe to say that residents of all the involved neighborhoods think we presently have too much traffic. So to divorce out one's own subjective impressions, it is important to focus on the only neutral, comprehensive evidence we have regarding traffic along the various routes: the City's own analysis as reported in the EIR. • Those figures report quite plainly that the busiest street in Ventana is Junipero, with an existing average weekday traffic figure of 2,880 trips. You can see this graphically in Figure 4.6-2. In the Environmentally Superior Scenario (No. 1), Junipero is predicted to go to 3,140 trips. • The busiest street in Sycamore, on the other hand, has an existing average weekday traffic figure of 3,440 trips. So, even with the increase in traffic under Scenario 1, it is beyond debate that Junipero still will have fewer daily trips than Sycamore has now. Under Scenario 6, Sycamore will increase to 4,130 trips Per 4 The Traffic Engineer's comments at the Workshop were particularly helpful to understand the various arguments raised: