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Minutes - San Leandro City Council Meeting - September 4, 1990 Page - 5 - PUBLIC HEARINGS (continued) He described various problems on Washington Avenue and into Greenhouse Market Place. He said he felt the Planning Commission and the City Council needed more specific information related to traffic from staff. He referred to "May Is Quality Month" meetings and said that difficult decisions needed to be made if the City was going to improve San Leandro and encourage high-quality developments. He said Washington Avenue is a southern gateway to the community. Kent Myers, representing Associated Homeowners of San Leandro, Inc. , noted that Associated Homeowners had sent two letters, one of which was not in the City Council 's packet. He said Associated was not expressing an opinion on the project but they did. have concerns regarding traffic. Dan Arellano, 1670 Boxwood Avenue, spoke regarding the level of service for PD-89-1 and said it would be improved to level of service E but this was still not an acceptable level of service. He said although the proposed improvements for this project would mitigate many of the traffic problems, the development should not eat up the capacity for other developments, such as Robert's Landing. Howard Kerr, 15388 Norton Street, said he agreed with comments made by Mr. Leigh. He said trucks that go in and out of San Lorenzo must go through the Washington/Lewelling intersection. He did not see a need for more fast- food restaurants or for a Walgreen's and said the people of Washington Manor did not want this development. Sandra Nielsen, 18703 West Cavendish, Castro Valley, one of the owners of the property, said she works at the Mobile Home Park at 2100 Lewelling Boulevard and said that if the street is not widened the traffic will get worse. She said she and her brother have talked to several other developers in an attempt to develop this property. Jim Nielsen, 7300 Shelbourne Drive, Loomis, California, the other property owner, also noted that he and his sister have tried to do something with this property for the last two years and said the corner lot was a big problem. He said this project is the best that they've been able to develop and they don't know what else to do with the property. Dave Powell , Pacific Development Group, in summary, said he sees this as an opportunity to repair an existing traffic problem, not create new ones. He said this project cannot be compared to Greenhouse Market Place because its scope is so much smaller. He said the proposed improvements will provide improvements necessary for this intersection and if there is no project, the abandoned Safeway store will stay as is. He said other developers have no other ideas for development of this property. There being no further comments from the public, on motion of Council Member Polvorosa, seconded by Council Member Perry and carried unanimously, the City Council closed the Public Hearing. Mayor Karp noted that many conclusions had been drawn without benefit of traffic engineering expertise and suggested that the City Council continue the Public Hearing to September 17, 1990, so that traffic engineers could answer their questions.