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Nicole Rodriguez From: Ellen Holmgren Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2023 10:04 AM To: Matt Sullivan; Mayor and City Council Cc: Pleasanton City Clerk; Pamela Ott; Ellen Clark; Melinda Denis; Shweta Bonn Subject: RE: Stoneridge Mall Dear Matt Sullivan, Thank you for your email regarding Item 1 on the on the Special Meeting Notice and Agenda for tonight, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. This email acknowledges receipt of your email to the Mayor and City Council, the City Manager, and City staff. Thank you for your interest in the City of Pleasanton. Regards, Ellen Holmgren, Administrative Assistant City of Pleasanton From: Matt Sullivan Sent:Thursday,January 26, 2023 9:47 AM To: Mayor and City Council <citycouncil@cityofpleasantonca.gov> Subject:Stoneridge Mall ***[EXTERNAL]This message comes from an external organization.Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links,especially from unknown senders.*** Dear Mayor and Council, Congratulations on your complete selling out of the residents in the northwest part of Pleasanton! After approving Costco, and its accompanying traffic, air quality, and picking of the taxpayers' pockets nightmare, you will drive the final nail in the coffin with your all-but-certain approval of the Stoneridge Mall expansion project tonight. Putting most of the RHNA-required housing at the mall site is a convenient and easy way to deal with this issue. Since you split council District 1 into two pieces with absolutely nothing in common,you have effectively disenfranchised the Muirwood and Val Vista neighborhoods. You will keep yourself immune from political blowback from this decision. Most of you will become heroes because you saved your own neighborhoods from the high-density housing onslaught (which has nothing to do with affordability and everything to do with tech worker housing). Only Jeff Nibert will be at risk, but since most people have limited attention spans,they will probably forget when he runs for re-election in 3 1/2 years. But this was the plan all along, right? I remember the Tarver-Pico years when the City Council took neighborhood and community impacts into account when making development decisions. Somewhere along the way,the tipping point probably being Costco, it is now more about business owner and developer profits and perceived tax revenue for the city.The Staff Report is startling,with significant discussion about the property owner's views, "letting the market decide"type comments, and providing "incentives" (more tax breaks for big business?) and only an aside about neighborhood comments "in Attachment 4". 1