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you can see a lot of paving and four units very close together. At the closest the units are going to be a lot closer than seventeen feet... I do believe this project is going to cause specific properties to lose land value. Even in Los Altos, although all the property values have gone up, the ones closest to this development... have risen a lot slower than the remainder of the community. "The real issue is not how many cars per day, but the type of traffic generated. This is going to generate peak rush hour traffic. It took my wife four or five minutes to get out of our driveway on Roosevelt this morning. This is only going to be worsened by the fact that two people per house are going to be working, and everyone is leaving at the same time and coming home at the same time. As for shopping, people come to shop... all day long, not just peak hour demand. This going to be more conflict with parking on Roosevelt, it is a busy street, people sideswiping cars, it happens on other streets in the area. The right hand turn lane is going to be shortened, and people don't always come to a stop as it is. There are no mitigation measures for the streets." He said, "Roosevelt, McGarvey, Euclid, Jefferson and Upton should have timed lights. "During the school year the site is impacted by cars on Euclid... there hasn't been enough study on it other than a few days, but not the ones that are really significant, not on the weekends when there was people parking all over the neighborhood for sporting events. "There were no studies of the surrounding intersections... There will be loss of parking on Euclid, made up elsewhere, but putting it onto Roosevelt will exacerbate the problem rather than solve it. Living on Roosevelt I can tell you the streets are poorly maintained, there are continually pot holes, and it is uneven. Future traffic is going to make it worse... There will be a conflict between the children who go to school next door and more traffic, more driveways" where many accidents happen. "Two-stories looming over single family neighborhoods is going to be oppressive and out of character. As for the schools, there is a bond issue that is coming up, and I am concerned. I was thinking about voting for it, but if the City Council is going to allow these denser projects in existing neighborhoods then I think the benefit gained by these bond issues is going to be lost, because you are immediately creating a higher demand in those neighborhoods for schools. So whatever is going to be rebuilt is going to cover not just the projected demand but an increased demand based on this new type of zoning. I talked to I think it was Dr. Crates, directly, and I apologize if I am wrong, someone in the public school administration, that this project would generate twenty elementary school students as soon as it is full. That is another classroom. There are portables on the school site as it is, and they fill up a baseball diamond. So that can't be used anymore. And it is just going to get worse with this type of increase in school population. What happens if the Lonestar housing project goes through? Has that been looked at? In terms of CEQA, it is supposed to be, the accumulative effects of all the available land for development has to be taken into account, so people can make reasonable decisions on these issues." Mr. Kampf said the Planning Commission asked for a study on schools, but the report did not include that issue. He said, "Schools are important to us, but that wasn't covered. That's when people started turning away when they realized these reports REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 55 MAY5,1997 MINUTES Page No. 292 PAGE 17