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5 January 2026 <br />Ted Vinson <br />11029 Dublin Canyon Road <br />Pleasanton, CA 94588 <br />Pleasanton Planning Commission <br />City of Pleasanton <br />Pleasanton, CA 94566 <br />Subject: Comments on Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for Ponderosa Homes/Lester <br />Residential Home and Roadway Project. - “Hidden Canyon Residences and Preserve” <br />I have invested substantial time and effort to review the DEIR for the subject project. I find the <br />report to be very lengthy and difficult to read. The difficulty was caused by the authors of the <br />report who added a great deal of superfluous “filler” information. It would have been more useful <br />to the public (who were asked to review the DEIR) if the unnecessary/nonessential information <br />was not included, and the report was sharply focused on the environmental impacts of the project. <br />Presumably the authors of the report did not use “filler” to justify their fee. <br />I previously submitted comments on the subject development in a letter to the Pleasanton Planning <br />Commission dated March 26, 2019. Several, but not all, of the issues I raised in the letter have <br />been addressed under the current project proposal. I appreciate that the parking/staging area has <br />been moved to the location presented in the DEIR. This move “saves” the beautiful and pristine <br />meadow. <br />My comments/issues herein are related to four areas: transportation, hydrology, environmental <br />impact, and project justification. If my comments/issues were already addressed in the DEIR or <br />Appendices that discussion was not intentionally ignored by me….I simply did not find/”see” the <br />discussion. <br />Transportation <br />I have reviewed Appendix H. It is obvious to everyone who lives in the vicinity of Dublin Canyon <br />Road that the addition of 28 houses along Dublin Canyon Road west of Canyon Creek Circle will <br />not appreciably contribute to the traffic problems on Dublin Canyon Road or nearby intersections. <br />The traffic congestion on Dublin Canyon Road is dominated by the vehicles that divert off of I- <br />580 owing to a variety of I-580 disruptions. Most often it is eastbound traffic during the PM rush <br />hour. Only occasionally is it diverted westbound traffic. The traffic data collected to evaluate the <br />impact of 28 new homes at a number of intersections, some quite distant, was not necessary. <br />T. Vinson <br />Page 1 of 28 <br />1 <br />2