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• Minutes - San Leandro City Council Meeting - July 18, 1994 Page - 19 - PUBLIC HEARINGS, (continued) Christine Moskowitz, 942 Woodland Avenue, said she is concerned about children playing in the streets. She said the apartments on Haas Avenue increase traffic. She said this is a low-end drugstore and the City should be looking for upscale improvements, not big corporations in neighborhoods. She said they should try for a Piedmont Avenue type of development. Susan Riskind-Poulsen, 182 Sunnyside Drive, Chair of the North Area Business Development Task Force, said traffic mitigation measures should be planned along the entire length of East 14th Street, no matter what happens at this site. She said a development plan should be made as to the identity of East 14th Street. She said people in the neighborhood should be surveyed as to the type of development they want to see in the area. She said the City should look at whether Cal -Trans will give up the highway designation for East 14th Street, and turn it over to the City as a City street instead of a highway. Jeff Duke, 871 Woodland Avenue, said although Walgreen's said they would be a good neighbor, there are other stores on East 14th Street and Washington Avenue that contain litter and graffiti and are in violation of the City's codes with regard to large banners and signs in the windows. Elaine Smith, 230 Begier Avenue, said she's a real estate agent with Coldwell -Banker, and said dwellings best maintain their values when there are neighborhoods with similar dwellings. She said changes in zoning, traffic patterns, commercial projects, and high density developments near or adjacent to residential property negatively impact that property. She said houses on busy streets are worth less than similar houses on non-busy streets. Lubos Dodecky, 271 Begier Avenue, said the City must be run as a business. The City cannot say they may or probably will do things, He said the City Council should say no to Walgreen's because the people who elected the City Council do not want the project. Jack Goodrich, a business owner in the North Area, and President-Elect of the Chamber of Commerce, said the Chamber met with Creekside and Estudillo Homeowner's Associations, the North Area Task Force, and Susan McCue. He said regardless of how the City Council votes, the Chamber of Commerce is committed to working with the neighborhood in developing East 14th Street and making it something that is good for the neighborhood. He said Walgreen's is an opportunity that the City Council must consider if it is serious about developing high standards of living in San Leandro. He said the Chamber feels Walgreen's, with restrictions, is a good idea, and no matter what is developed on that site, there will be increases in traffic. He said the Chamber is strongly in favor of Walgreen's.