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Council Member Glaze: My main concern on it is that, while it sounds like I wasn't here when we decided that landscaping was all we were going to do, is that we're going to disrupt one of the busiest streets in the entire City of San Leandro during a period of one year, minimum, during construction. And, all we are getting in the end of this is that we are going to have a landscaped street. I don't think that mitigates any of the traffic concerns or anything else during - at least during the construction period and beyond. I think that Hayward was on the right track originally when it took on the EIR, because when we talk about the development of the valley -you know Haywa.rd's impact versus San Leandro's impact - I can't believe. We talk about some of those same streets that they're tearing up -when we talk about the impacts of valley development -when we talk about Doolittle, Wicks, Lewelling, Washington, and then off 238 out to the valley -those are all major impacts of valley development. And, Hayward's is very minimal at a $lOM price tag. So, I have a problem with the agreement because we don't have it spelled out. It's not spelled out in here and it sounds like, in many ways, we are approving something and then negotiating and have no -well we have no hammer to hold after we have approved this agreement. Or, that they've signed this agreement on behalf of the City. Bob Taylor: Well, we have the hammer in the sense that the encroachment permit is something that is not covered. They have to get the encroachment permit to physically move there. They have to have a second EIR to update the initial EIR that they had. As far as the specifics of what is going out there, what has always been discussed with them is a raised island median with street trees and irrigation, street trees 50 ft. on center October 20, 1997 -Verbatim Transcript, Item 6.A 9