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Garland Draper, 4031 Schween Court, spoke in opposition to this project. She was concerned that the traffic on Valley Avenue would be further worsened. She objected to the additional noise in a quiet residential neighborhood and did not believe it had been sufficiently addressed. She would like to see along-term infrastructure plan to solve the already severe traffic situations in the Valley Avenue/Bernal Avenue/Stanley Boulevard areas. She believed the traffic report associated with Home Depot was flawed and did not include data from the Shadow Cliffs buildout and the waterslide. She noted that it also did not include the possible closure of the Johnson Drive Home Depot and would like these traffic issues to be addressed by the City Council before this project is addressed. She would also like the Stoneridge Drive extension to be completed before this project were to be considered. She noted that her neighbor, Hank Jones, requested that she read his email since he could not attend: "I would like to communicate my thoughts regarding the Home Depot you are proposing to place on the corner of Valley and Stanley. I would love to have a Home Depot so close to my residence, but the traffic situation is really bad already. Unless traffic was reduced on Santa Rita and Valley Avenues, there would be no way that I would support this development. "Let me explain. In the morning I take my son to Harvest Park Middle School. He would no longer ride his bike because he was hit last year, and he's scared, and I know this for a fact. When I go to turn on Valley from Kolln, I am faced with a long line of commuters heading towards Santa Rita. They are all coming from Livermore. Unless I get really aggressive, I cannot get onto Valley until the signal light changes. Once on Valley, the traffic is so bad that getting across Santa Rita takes up to three cycles of the signal light. "In the evening, we sometimes have to go east on Valley, getting out of Orloff onto Kolln can be a real pain because commuters are sometimes stacked up beyond Orloff waiting to turn onto Valley. This makes getting onto Kolln difficult - we have to wait through one or two cycles to get onto Valley once we get onto Kolln. Once on Valley headed east, we are faced with a long, long line of cars waiting to turn on Stanley and get to Livermore. That intersection was rated a "D" two years ago, and obviously it's worse now. "I do not know how you could put in a Home Depot, Longs, drive-through Starbucks, several retail outlets and still say that traffic levels will remain at a "D". It's not logical, even with the modifications you plan for Valley and Stanley. As I see it, there's only one cure for the load of traffic we have on Valley and Santa Rita -this is traffic that has an imprisoning effect on our children. That would be to open what has been promised to us for years, and has been reneged on by some members of the Council. This is something that was used to push through development in the Stoneridge area. This is something that was planned for and disclosed to all residents who purchased homes around Stoneridge. I'm talking about the El Charro extension to Stanley, and the Stoneridge extension to El Charro. EXCERPTS: PLANNING COMMISSION MINi.JTES, December 13, 2006 Page 8 of 16