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November 3, 2006 Dear Commission Members, Please include this letter in your formal considerations of the proposed expansion of Trinity Lutheran Church's permanent preschool building and enlarged parking lot on Golden Road. I am writing this because the time allotted to address the commission at the formal hearing is limited and I am afraid that I may not be able to include all of my concerns regarding the traffic and aesthetic issues brought up by Trinity's planned expansion at the meeting on November 8, 2006. My husband and I purchased our home at 5029 Golden Road in 1975 and have resided there since. Trinity Lutheran Church was a small church, the pastor lived on the property and there was no preschool. Golden Road was a very busy street and the promise of Del Valle Parkway in the General Plan for the City of Pleasanton gave us much hope that the traffic situation would improve. Although Del Valle Parkway was reduced from the planned four lanes to two lanes it did alleviate the number of cars using Golden Road and gave us a much safer street. When our children were young we could not allow them to play in the front yard due to the traffic safety issues. My biggest concern is the increase in traffic that may occur as a result of Trinity's proposal to enlarge the parking area on Golden Road, replace 3500 square foot buildings with a structure that is over 8100 square feet and place it so that there is no possibility of EVER using Del Valle Parkway as the major entrance and exit to their facility. Del Valle Parkway is a roadway that can better handle a heavy traffic load. There are no residential driveways near this entrance to the facility and it provides for safe access to Hopyard Road from where most of the vehicles using Trinity's facility come. The intersection at Hopyard and Golden is a very complicated intersection as the driveway to Trinity's parking lot is across from a frontage road and next to a crosswalk. We hear screeching brakes too many times that make us cringe with fear. There are many elementary and high school students who walk to and from school each day and their safety must be considered. They also travel past our homes on skateboards and scooters crossing the driveway to Trinity just as preschool and day care parents are rushing in and