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Minutes - San Leandro City Council Meeting - February 22, 1994 Page - 11 - PUBLIC HEARINGS (continued) In response to questions from Council Member Corbett, Ms. Shelby said she is the President of the Huntington Park Homeowners' Association and that Mr. Clevenger spoke to her by phone and to the Vice President by phone. She said the Homeowners' Association is not active. Barbara Tierney, 3965 Mission Way, Past President of Floresta Homeowners' Association, said she has been working with Mr. Clevenger for a long time. She said the people from Aloha and Anza were involved in the process, and none of them wanted access via Ian Street. She said they all support the project. She said there would not be very many cars from a project of this size, and they would rather see the property developed as a residential rather than a commercial site. The City Council pointed out that the petition in opposition to the project that was submitted was signed by a number of residents on Aloha and Anza. Ms. Tierney was surprised to see this and said none of them told her they were in opposition to the project. Florence Ruha, Past President of Floresta Homeowners' Association, said she was the President when this project was first proposed. She said people on Aloha were up in arms that something commercial might go in on the site; and, when this project came up, their only concern was that it not have access via Ian Street. She said she did not know why they changed their minds in the last week and signed the petition. She said sometime in the future the single-family homes to the north will be sold and this is a sizeable property that could become commercial . She said a residential project now would solve the commercial problem. She said she has a 16-foot soundwall behind her home, and it does a very good job of cutting off noise from the freeway. She said, regarding additional traffic on Washington Avenue, the Traffic Engineer and Caltrans say it will not cause problems. She said she has seen the Roto Rooter trucks cross four lanes of traffic. She said no one in the Floresta Homeowners' Association had anything to say against the project when they met with Mr. Clevenger. She said she is in favor of the project. Alice Chin, 14947 Washington Avenue, said the proposal was turned down by the Planning Commission because the developer lacked control over Phase 2, because of the poor access to the site, and traffic problems. She said the developer doesn't have control over all of the properties, and the plan is incompatible with the surrounding environment and inconsistent with the surrounding neighborhood. She said it will create an undue impact on the neighborhood and is located between two intersections, on a busy thoroughfare, near the freeway. She described the chronology of submittal of the Application and various traffic studies that have been conducted and questioned the accuracy of the traffic studies. She said the property should be developed with detached, single-family homes to protect the neighborhood and asked that the City Council deny the Appeal .