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l.age L 01 j Kelly From: ''I( cousins" <kkissincousins@hotmall.com> To: mpavan@cLpleasanton,ca,us, ddecker@dpleasanton.ca.us, mhoey@Ci.pleasnton.ca.us Subject: Letter to City Planning Department Staff and Planning Commissioners for May 10th Date: Wea; 10 May 2006 00:11:41 -0700 Re: Subject PUDSO, Planning Commission Workshop, May 10th, Ponderosa Development City of Pleasanton To the Planning Commissioners and Planning Department Staff: Thank you for providing the opportunity in the upcoming second workshop to address the May 10th City Staff report following the first workshop of March 29th and to present our continued concern about the ponderosa development as planned on the Lehman-Selway Property . I appreciate the suggestions made by the majority of members of the Planning Commission to follow up on a curved alignment for Cameron Avenue as a traffic calming design. I have reviewed the four street configuration alternatives presented by Ponderosa and the one plan proposed for the Cameron Avenue re-design by the City Staff as well. The design option presented by the City and Ponderosa's Alternate 3 seem to meet many of the ideas presented at the meeting with the exception of the sidewalk. Unfortunately the Staffs plan calls for the neighbor's property on the north eastern end of Cameron to be used to extend a new sidewalk to Martin Avenue along Cameron. I agree that Cameron should not be widened more than 28 feet unless it was necessary to increase the width to include parking bays and/or parallel parking along the street near my home as having parking in front of or across from my home is essential to maintain. I am not opposed to safer access along Cameron for pedestrian and bike riders. Traffic calming designs to the road and "table -top" mounds at Equestrian and at the end of Cameron and Martin will help lower the speed of the vehicles traveling along Cameron. Eliminating city bus traffic on Cameron and restricting right turns going south from Martin Ave. onto Cameron during school commute times will also help make the passage for bike riders and pedestrians safer along Cameron. Having fewer homes in the proposed development would also eliminate increased traffic generated by the development There are other issues and options still to be explored that were not addressed in either the ponderosa's Cameron Avenue Design Alternatives or the City Staff Report of May 10th. One of the other recommendations to Staff made by the Planning Commissioners was to explore the developments' internal street configuration and better dispersal of the development's internal and increased traffic more evenly onto the surrounding neighborhood streets. Alternative walking paths and Emergency Vehicle Access Only roads from the development either onto Trenery along side of the Lehman's residence or onto Martin Ave along the Selway's residence were not addressed fully in the Staff Report. The Staff Report cited that a direct connection from Cameron through the development to Martin might encourage "cut-through" traffic by passenger cars traveling to and from Mohr School (page 4 of the Staff Report). This is very unlikely. The majority of traffic going along an alternative route would be from within the proposed development itself. The shortest route to Mohr School for I most of the homes inside the proposed development would be along a path or road from Street "A" towards Martin Ave along the side of the Selway's Residence. It was also proposed in the last ! workshop that some school children might be encouraged to walk along the internal sidewalks of the I ponderosa Development to school as a safer alternative to going on Cameron that does not have (sidewalks. Car traffic traveling from surrounding neighborhoods such as Palmer and Kamp to the back I entrance of Mohr School would most likely be going directly down Cameron to Martin which is a more 1 direct route to the school. 5/10/2006