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Do we need another park (without soccer or football fields) in Pleasanton Do we need an expensive Senior Assisted Living facility next to a freeway Do we need another retail commercial center with so many others failing ? Thera are ALSO plenty of reasons listed in the Environmental Impact Report that would make the development of Staples Punch Undesirable. VISUAL RESOURCES: The LOSS of the rural look and feel of Pleasanton when the open land along the freeway is no more. We will join other cities like Fremont as having a "solid city" look: not knowing which city you are in since its just one city after another. The AIR QUALITY will be even gorse if we open Btoneridge Drive to El Charro. The current EIR shows that with just the EIA connection( much less traffic) the ozone is already above thresholds used by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, So we are already above thresholds, and they want to add thousands more traffic trips along Stoneridge Drive ! Crazy r C Building the BDE before Pleasanton has Regional roadmap is inept, fiscally irresponsible, and morally reprehensible. Inept - No plan in place: We are supposed to have a Regional Road-Map of what improvements get built and in what order. We do IT yet have a Regional Road-Map agreement where the local jurisdictions have all agreed on what infrastructure improvement should be made and in what order. Pleasanton needs to have Highway 84 expanded in order to reduce out- through traffic and yet our Regional partners on several agencies continue to place Highway 84 on the low priority list. Fiscally Irresponsible: Pleasanton will pay much higher ongoing road maintenance expenses! Since we know from the Triangle Traffic Study that 0% of the cars using Stoneridge Drive will be cut - through traffic ( No origin or destination within Pleasanton) there will be much higher costs for road maintenance in the future which will be a burden on the City of Pleasanton. Instead of CalTrans paying for road maintenance due to all the traffic on the freeway; Pleasanton is going to make the sacrifice by allowing traffic to use Pleasanton streets for regional access. Pleasanton will pay for ongoing maintenance for our share of the traffic and loo % more to cover the cut- through traffic that does not belong here! Morally reprehensible: For most of us who live along Stoneridge the price will be incredibly high in the LOSS of Quality of Life. Our quiet area will become a freeway bypass and our air duality will certainly be detrimentally affected. The noise, traffic, and crime within Pleasanton as a whole, are all certain to go up once Btoneridge Drive is extended to El Charro. All residents throughout Pleasanton will be paying the price to help Regional traffic ! The Triangle Traffic Study shows that TRAFFIC GETS WORSE BE - not better; if the Btoneridge Drive Extension is implemented before other REGIONAL highway improvements are Nn place. Bo is it WISE for Pleasanton to step forward to Help the Regional Traffic ,Need by opening up Btonridge Drive to El Charro ' I think Not! D) Environmentalists: Oppose the Maples Punch EIR approval until the Ice Fink is relocated away from the Arroyo Mocho While there seems to be a myriad of reasons to reject the entire Maples Punch Development project, there are a number of reason to at least modify (correct) the plan before the project gets approved. The design of Maples Punch Park is deeply flawed and should be completely re- worked. I could go on and on! Drop me an email if you want more information about the park. One specific change which I consider an absolute Must before any approval of the EIF, would be relocating the Ice Facility. For some unknown reason the massive Ice Facility was relocated from original designs) closer to the Arroyo Mocho. BIG MISTAKE ! To protect the wildlife along the Arroyo Mocho the Ice Facility should be moved North (away from the arroyo) and East to be closer to the other Commercial structures. Please email me if you have additional questions or any comments for me! I will be away on Saturday, but be able to respond to you sometime Sunday) Please send an email to the Mayor & City