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THE C East Pleasanton Specific Plan Public Comments pLEASANTO1\ From: Kelly Cousins Sent:Tuesday, December 03, 2019 4:38 PM To: Mayor and City Council <citycouncil@cityofpleasantonca.gov> Subject: Letter to the City Council regarding the proposal to plan the EPSP Dear Mayor Thorne, Vice Mayor Brown and City Council Members Testa, Pentin and Narum, As a past member of the East Pleasanton Specific Plan Task Force and long term resident of Pleasanton, I am extremely concerned about the December 3`d , 2019 City Council agenda item #12,(which as of today has been postponed until Dec 17th)that proposes to begin the planning process for the East Pleasanton Specific Plan with Ponderosa Developers representing the land owners. Most alarming is that the City of Pleasanton staff would overlook the previous 3 to 1 vote with the directive made on 5/19/15 by Mayor Thorne and seconded by Vice Mayor Brown to provide an advisory vote of the residents before planning would resume on the East Side prior to the 2022-23 RHNA allotments. Additionally it is of concern that a single family housing developer like Ponderosa,would be given the opportunity to "plan" for a possible 1900 additional housing units added to the East Side with a small fraction of those units fulfilling the type of RHNA Work Force Housing required by state mandates. The voters of Pleasanton were given your assurance by a majority vote of the Council that they would be involved at the ballot box before resuming the planning prior to the 2022-23 RHNA . The residents want to vote and be heard as they are the ones left to "pay the costs"of the multiple impacts of any proposed residential development in the area especially one as large as 1900 housing units. Many of the same factors that were of concern in 2015 when planning for the 1300 housing units are still relevant today. Pleasanton residents are facing a 10% decrease to our City's safe drinking water supplies; additional over-crowding in our schools by an increase in students moving to the area impacts K-12 classrooms throughout the district; the significant increase of a possible 1900 x 10 per household car trips a day would add to the traffic congestion we are already experiencing and add to our poor air quality. Additionally the past and current proposals for a massive EPSP residential development calls for encroachment upon lands outside of the city limits and beyond our urban growth boundary and the within the Livermore airport protection restricted area. A possible extension of El Charro to Stanley Blvd through the Zone 7 Lakes, that help provide drinking water, adds to concerns about our safe drinking water. This is an area that has the most amount of land that could provide space for the significant numbers of RHNA housing units which is most likely going to be required by the State. We need to plan only after with these numbers are made avaailable. If we are going to plan something why aren't the City Staff and our elected leaders planning for a counter to the state mandates as other towns have done? Many people want to keep the land zoned for light industrial (hopefully something that doesn't increase the PFA contamination in our wells and water table). What is the rush to plan now?! Provided to City Council for the February 18, 2020, Meeting 73