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Page 1 of 1 Jenny Soo From: mike.serrano Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:52 AM To: jsoo@ci.pleasanton.ca.us Subject: Trinity Lutheran Expansion To the Planning Commission for the City of Pleasanton Dear Commissioners, As you prepare to revisit Trinity Lutheran's application for conditional use permit at next week's (Nov. 8~h) meeting. I would like to provide you an update on the progress or lack there of since your workshop on the issue on September 13~h, 2006. At the September 13~h meeting, a number of neighbors, myself included, addressed the commission regarding our concerns over the potential traffic impact the proposed design would have on the neighborhood. The commissioners, in workshop, requested that staff and the church go back and look at a number of possible alternatives to address the neighborhoods concerns. These included: 1. closing the Golden Road exit, 2. connecting the Del Valle Parkway and Golden parking lots, 3. Modifying the size of the building, 4. Repositioning the building, 5. Creating a Hopyard driveway. Following the workshop, there have been two meeting between the church and the neighbors (that I'm aware of). The first one included City Staff. Sadly, I need to report that both meetings failed to produce any meaningful discussion on the topics suggested by the commissioners at the workshop. The attached email "Re: Thank you" was the email exchange after the first meeting. After receiving an invitation to a second meeting with the Church ("Trinity Follow-up #3), I attended the meeting cautiously optimistic that we could make progress on our traffic concerns. Unfortunately, the invitation email was all hype as the meeting quickly reverted to discussing the current plan- no changes or modifications. The neighbors have tried to work with the church. We have shared our concerns, our presentations, and our comments. I asked the church for copies of their presentations, video tapes of the public meetings, and I have received nothing. We are not opposed to the pre-school, but we are very concerned with the potential 280%+ increase in traffic through our neighborhood. I would like to point out that maps the city has provided of the Hopyard/Golden Road intersection are incorrect. The map, including the map on the back of the Notice of Public Hearing, are of the old street configuration before Hopyard was reconfigured some years back creating a frontage road that parallels Hopyard. The current configuration makes the Hopyard/Golden intersection a very complex intersection with no traffic control. Since the Church has failed to adequately address the traffic concerns of the neighborhood, I respectfully request that the Planning Commission deny Trinity Lutheran Church's application (PCUP-155/PDR-513). Sincerely, Mike Serrano 4835 Golden Rd. 3/13/2007