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out of Trinity's Golden Road parking area to drop-off or pick up their children so they can rush off to work or home afterwards with many other things on their minds than the safety or consideration of the neighborhood's residents. If a major injury accident occurs at the Golden Road entrance to Trinity it won't matter whose fault it might be -many lives would be severely affected. It has been stated that the proposed expansion of the church facilities and parking lot on Golden are azero-growth project. Growth is inevitable and I believe that the usage of the church's facilities will increase dramatically. David Beard said the church membership has doubled in the past five years. That increase is 500 members in a relatively short time. The number of cars parked on Golden during Sunday services has increased dramatically over that time due to this growth. But the on street parking has not raised any safety issues in the neighborhood. I have lived with the on- street parking from the Pleasanton Valley Swim Club on Saturdays and Trinity Lutheran on Sundays and have not experienced any problems with this. It is the traffic coming and going to the Golden Road parking lot that will increase and the problems could be minimized by enlarging the parking area on Del Valle rather than Golden. We were asked by the Planning Commission to work together with David Beard to see if we could develop a solution to alleviate concerns about the existing expansion plan. Several neighbors have approached Mr. Beard with alternative solutions that would allow Trinity to build the permanent preschool building and increase parking but he is not willing to consider our thoughts. We have suggested that the building be moved to allow the major parking area be entered and exited from Del Valle Parkway. Another option is to reduce the building size. The proposed new building would be 8110 square feet. The preschool license calls for 3500 square feet to accommodate the license for 99 children. The new building would have non-classroom space of 4600 square feet to allow for storage, a lobby, office space, a staff restroom and a sick child room. This seems excessive if it is truly a zero growth project. We also are concerned about the lighting fixtures in the parking areas and sufficient landscaping to minimize the view of any large parking areas from our homes.