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PLEASANT ON VILLAGE ASSOCIATION c/o Homeowner Association Services 3160 Crow Canyon Place - Suite 150 San Ramon, CA 94583 (925) 830-4848 - Office/(925) 830-0252 bdawsonia:hoaservices.net ~ June 27, 2005 Ms. Jennifer Hosterman, Mayor City of Pleasant on P.O. Box 520 Pleasanton, CA 94566 Mr. Jeff Knowles, Traffic Engineer Traffic Engineering Department City of Pleasanton 200 Old Bernal Avenue Pleasanton, CA 94566 SUBJECT: Red Curbs Dear Mayor Hosterman and Mr. Knowles: The Board of Directors of the Pleasanton Village Association has asked me to write to you to share and discuss current parking problems within our community as well as increased problems that are anticipated when the new gymnasium at neighboring St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church is built. Pleasanton Village is a homeowners association of 196 units located near Rheem and Stoneridge. The streets involved are Rheem, Bowen, Alexander Way, Krause, Armstrong and Oakland. The primary problems are on Bowen, Alexander Way and Rheem, however. St. Elizabeth Seton is one of our immediate neighbors. Over 33% of our homes were built with one car garages. As you can imagine, while this may have been adequate when the homes were built in 1983, it is not adequate for the average family today. We have many homeowners with more than 2 vehicles who have no other option than to park on the street. This causes a lot of congestion and also line of sight issues within the community. To add to our parking problems, St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church is planning to build a large gymnasium on the area of its property that is right next to us. The gym is to be used for CY A athletics, with parents bringing their children to the gym every evening. The driveway is almost at the intersection of Bowen and Rheem, the primary entrance to our community. Traffic in our community is very congested when the church has services and we are concerned with the additional daily traffic the gym will bring. We are writing to you to help us develop some ways to alleviate the parking problem. A suggestion has been made to have parking permits for our residents and to have all "non-permit" parking towed. This would work for a community with private streets, but our streets are all public, with the sole exception of Alexander Court. Would the City allow such a system on our public streets, especially Alexander, Bowen and Rheem?