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Page 1 of 2 <br />Maria Hoey <br />Subject: FW: No on Home Depot <br />From: Cory Ferreira <br />Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:34 AM <br />To: Mary Lu Campbell <br />Subject: No on Home Depot <br />First I have to say that I appreciate all the woriz you do for our great city. <br />Home Depot at Valley and Stanley just doesn't maize since to me for the following reasons. <br />We love our town, please don't add to our traffic mess. <br />Bottom line: The traffic/quality of life impact of adding a Home Depot big box store in the middle of <br />Pleasanton residential neighborhoods is significant and represents a radical departure from <br />Pleasanton's development philosophy. It would be a mistake that will be recognized as a regrettable <br />turning point for decades to come. <br />1. Pleasanton has been widely praised for the wisdom of keeping high-traffic commercial <br />development on the periphery of its residential core. Examples: Stoneridge Mall, Walmart <br />shopping center, existing Home Depot. <br />2. The Home Depot proposal contradicts our successful and well-imitated philosophy by <br />drawing a high volume of traffic from the edge of the city right through the middle of our <br />interior neighborhoods. <br />Every city within 30 miles of Pleasanton has located Home Depot stores right near freeway <br />access. <br />The new proposed Home Depot in Pleasanton would: <br />a. Add a "big box" in the center of Pleasanton neighborhoods, nearly 3 miles from <br />freeway access. <br />b. Turn Stanley, First St., Valley, Santa Rita into asemi-truck corridor with up to 20 <br />semi trucks a day, barreling down city streets starting from early morning to late <br />nights. This includes non-Home Depot trucks. <br />c. c. Draw cross-town traffic through our neighborhoods. <br />d. This impact will be more dramatic when the existing Home Depot closes due <br />to competition from the new Lowes going in at Tassajara and Dublin Blvd: <br />Pleasanton will lose any promise of increased City revenues they had counted on. <br />• More cross-town traffic will transfer to the new Home Depot - an additional increase <br />in traffic -about 1/3rd more (per Home Depot). <br />In summary, we believe that if the council makes this mistake today, it will be recognized as a <br />regrettable turning point for decades to come. There is no turning back. <br />~/10/20~7 <br />