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ATTACHMENT 15 Maria Hoey Subject: FW: Lund Ranch II Development --Adopt Planning Commission vote for Option 2 From: allison chang Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 1:48 PM To: Mayor and City Council Subject: Lund Ranch II Development-- Adopt Planning Commission vote for Option 2 Dear City Council Members, We write in support of the Planning Commission's vote in favor Option 2 for the Lund Ranch II development. All traffic coming from that development should properly be routed through the Sycamore Creek neighborhood as has been in the General Plan for the past 25 years and has been noted in the Sycamore Creek development plan and in their HOA's CC&R's. We urge you to adopt the Planning Commission and planning commission staff recommendation of Option 2 for several reasons which we will articulate below. * The City has been a part of, ratified and recognized an agreement with the Ventana Hills and Mission Hills neighborhoods for over 25 years providing that all traffic from a future Lund Ranch II development would not be routed through our neighborhoods. This agreement was relied upon by all subsequent home-buyers including us as an inducement for buying our properties. In fact, we were specifically told by the city that Lund Ranch Road would always be a dead end when we were considering buying our house. We believe that the City's acquiescence to that agreement and 25 years of indications that the City would follow it, should not be broken now. We understand that there is an legal opinion that believes the city is not a part of that agreement. However, the legal doctrines of ratification, detrimental reliance, and 3rd party beneficiaries would all make the City liable for following that agreement. The aforementioned legal opinion did not consider those bases for obligation by the City. Under those legal principles, the City is legally bound to follow the agreement to route all Lund Ranch II traffic through the Sycamore Creek neighborhood. * Routing any more traffic past Mission Hills Park is extremely dangerous. Mission Hills Park is the lifeblood of this corner of Pleasanton. It is used from the early morning to the late evening by dog walkers, seniors exercising, sports practices, families, parties, hikers, etc. My own two children (8 and 4 years old) had a daily ritual of going to the park until they went to pre-school. Even now with a third grader, we ride bikes, take walks and play in the park at least twice a week. The park is in high usage by the entire community of Ventana, Mission Hills and Sycamore Creek and even those from the Bonde, Kottinger, and further out areas. The traffic studies that Greenbrier did only considered vehicular traffic. It did not consider the high and considerable foot, bike, dog, senior and child traffic. We have even seen red tail foxes in the park. Putting any more traffic around the park either by humongous construction trucks, or the traffic from 50 more homes, or the traffic by creating a cut through from Sycamore to Ventana Hills would endanger everyone who uses the park. I challenge you to drive by the park at 4 pm -- you will see soccer teams, little kids in the jungle gym, seniors taking walks, a plethora of dogs and older kids playing basketball and riding bikes. Or drive by the park at 7 am and you will see seniors doing tai chi, dog walkers, joggers, and bike riders. Or drive by the park at 7 pm and you will see families taking evening strolls. Or drive by in the middle of any day 1