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C. 60, C.61 and C.62
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Adopted this Order on October 1, 1996 by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Rogers, Bishop, DeSaulnier, Torlakson and Smith
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
SUBJECT: Correspondence
C.60 LETTER dated September 20, 1996, from W.R.Till, Eleventh Coast Guard District,
Bldg. 50-6, Coast Guard Island, Alameda, CA 94501-5100, requesting comment on a
revised location for a new fixed highway bridge across the Carquinez Strait.
****REFERRED TO GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
DIRECTOR AND PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR.
C.61 LETTER dated September 17,1996, from Thomas E. McConnell, Executive Officer,
California Board of Corrections, 600 Bercut Drive, Sacramento, CA 95814, requesting
input and suggestions regarding the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability
Challenge Implementation Grant Request for Proposal.
****REFERRED TO SHERIFF/CORONER AND COUNTY PROBATION
OFFICER
C.62 LETTER dated September 18, 1996, from the Board of Directors of the Pleasant Hill
Homesites Association, 1013 Hook Avenue, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523, expressing
concerns regarding the proposed Pleasant Hill BART Station area development.
""REFERRED**REFERRED TO THE REDEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
IT IS BY THE BOARD ORDERED that the recommendations as noted
(****) are approved.
1 hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of
an action taken and entered on the minutes W the
Board of Supe a iso on date shown.
ATrESTEo:
PHIL BATCHELOR,Clerk of the board
of Supervisors and Co my Administrator
a � Pu►Y
c.c.County Administrator
GMEDA Director
Community Development Director
Public Works Director
Sheriff/Coroner
County Probation Officer
Redevelopment Director
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PLEASANT HILL HOMESITES ASSOCIATION
1012 Hook Avenue, Pleasant Hill,California 94523
September 18, 1996
RECEIVED
Board of Supervisors SEP 9 1996
Contra Costa County
651 Pine Street
Martinez, California 94553-1296 CLERK BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CONTRA COSTA CO.
Dear Supervisors:
We,the Board of Directors of the Pleasant Hill Homesites Association,would like to express some of our
concerns regarding the proposed Pleasant Hill BART Station area development. Our neighborhood area of
approximately 143 homes includes Astrid, Esther and Pleasant Valley Drives, Hook Avenue, St. Lawrence
Way, St. Lawrence and Barbara Courts.
We have been working with the City of Peasant Hill to solve a traffic problem we NOW have with a police
documented 900+cars driving down Pleasant Valley Drive and up Hook Avenue,with a major portion of
that traffic using our streets as a short-cut to the Oak Park overpass that leads to and from the Pleasant Hill
BART Station. This is evidenced by the"commute hours"time and direction of the traffic flow.
We are deeply concerned that your proposed entertainment village will draw an even GREATER amount of
traffic through our neighborhood during an even WIDER span of time of day and evening(even with the
proposed widening and realignment of North Main Street). We would hope your plans would include a
more family-oriented rather than adult-oriented development and that it would increase BART and public
transit ridership and NOT automobile traffic which it now seems to do.We feel that satellite parking areas
with shuttles to the BART Station AND additional parking at the BART Station to provide for the PRESENT
parking shortage at the station should be high priorities.
We feel your proposal to remove 7 homes on Esther Drive to allow for a flyover to the Oak Park overpass is
drastic and inconsiderate of the fabric of this community. Many people who have chosen to retire in this
neighborhood simply could not afford to move elsewhere. We are trying to preserve our neighborhood
which also includes a large number of families with children moving in over the past 10 years. We have a
developing"sense of community"and would be greatly distressed to lose that along with our property
values by turning our narrow residential streets into major thoroughfares.
We invite you to respono to this letter as soon as possible as we would like to deliver your response at our
September 29th general meeting. Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
y Orsi r ent J e Byrne,Vice Pr ident Joanne Gressang, Treasurer
Janine Oubre, Secretary(Co-chair) Adrienne Dwyer, Secretary(Co-chair)
cc: BART Steering Comr-ittee Members, BART Board of Directors, Pleasant Hill City Council Members