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From: barbifever [mailto:barbifever@att.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 8:06 AM To: _Council Cc: shcassidy Subject: San Leandro zoning changes Dear Mayor Cutter, San Leandro City Council and former Mayor Cassidy, I live in Estudillo Estates and I am strongly opposed to a new 51 unit, 47 - foot tall apartment building, at Bancroft Ave and Estudillo. This area is already so congested, with morning school traffic and with commuter traffic on Estudillo, going towards the 580 freeway. In the morning during the week, it is hard to turn on to Estudillo Ave from San Jose Street. Currently there is nearly the need for a 4 way stop. There is just not a feasible infrastructure there to sustain this type of apartment building. In San Leandro another poor planned zoning example is the new housing near BART. Quite frankly the zoning of the apartment building on the site of the old BART parking lot is a travesty. So many people scramble daily for parking now. Those parking places will never be recaptured, even with the parking lot under the apartment building. Parking there will now need to accommodate the new apartment building cars, the new business building across the street, and the BART commuters. My husband is a BART commuter and is now parking three blocks away from BART daily. Public transportation should be convenient for the public, not a hassle. We have lived in San Leandro for 27 years. San Leandro is a great community, but this new planning/ zoning situation is quite concerning. If zoning is not done correctly are sweet community will turn into a congested, densely populated stressful way of life. There are other areas where it would be more appropriate for a new apartment building, perhaps near the new Kaiser or closer towards the Marina area for instance. Thank you former Mayor Cassidy for your time in office and for your very helpful letters to the editor recently in the San Leandro times. Thank you, Vicky Radigue