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care home or nursery school, unless the Zoning Administrator makes the specific finding that the concentration of such uses will not adversely affect the neighborhood in which it is located due to the cumulative increase in noise, traffic and/or parking requirements. - Staff has verified that the proposed facility is not within 300' of another large family daycare or nursery. B. Traffic Control: Large family day care homes shall not create any traffic hazard. The Zoning Administrator may prescribe such conditions as may be reasonably required to ensure the safety of all affected by the proposed use, including requiring traffic-control measures reasonably required to avoid any identified adverse effect. Staff has been made aware pfthe pre-existing parking and traffic issues as communicated by the neighbors and the Homeowners Association. Staff has conducted several site and neighborhood visits to ascertain the extent of the parking and traffic issues. It is staffs opinion that the existing facility does increase the traffic levels slightly, but not to a level of concern. - The safety issues that have been raised seem to stem mostly from the speeds at which all patrons of the development travel at, residents and non-residents alike. The City of Pleasanton is unable to hold the project applicant liable for or to further require additional actions on this application to alleviate an issue that does not appear to be a specific effect of this project. Staff would encourage the HOA, residences, the Fire Department and applicant to coordinate their efforts to enact a remedy to the speeding issue. Staff did conclude a common traffic maneuver of the patrons of the daycare needed to be addressed. The patrons of the daycare tend to use the curbside parking space for loading and unloading of the children due to the convenience of the direct approach on Genovesio Drive. This parking pattern results in frequent use of unsafe and un-neighborly traffic maneuvers, i.e. u-turns at a blind corner, k-turns which obstruct traffic flow, and the use of neighboring driveways as a way of turning the vehicle around. In staffs opinion, these unsafe and un-neighborly traffic maneuvers can be correct by a condition of approval requiring all patrons to use the driveway of the daycare for loading and unloading of the children. Stafffeels that this mitigation is two fold. Primarily, the use of the driveway by patrons resolves the traffic maneuver concerns of both the neighbors and staff by providing a parking space that positions the vehicle for normally traffic maneuvers. Additionally, staff feels that this requirement will also provide for a safer method of child pick up and drop of given the speeds at which the vehicle entering and exiting the development are traveling at. C. Parking Requirements: Parking spaces, including both off-street and on-street, shall be available for the actual parking demand created by the use, including the applicant's own vehicles, those of employees, and those of persons delivering and picking up children. On- street parking is available for the use if such spaces are within a reasonable distance of the home and can be reached safely from the home by children. Case No. PDUP-8 Planning Commission Page 3