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From: A Roby

To: cityhall

Cc: Kathy Layman

Subject: Support for Lafayette Lane

Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 4:16:56 PM

Dear Lafayette City Council Members,

My name is Anne Roby. I am a resident of Pleasanton, California, and a proud mother of an adult son with Down syndrome. I also serve on the Board of Sunflower Hill. I am writing in support of Lafayette Lane.

We have lived in the Bay Area since our son was seven years old and he has been a part of the community, fully included in school and a participant in sports and other events, since we moved here. We lived in Walnut Creek, where we had a number of friends from Lafayette who had children with special needs, before finally landing in Pleasanton.

When people think of housing needs and affordable housing needs, the developmentally disabled community is often not even considered, and yet it is a group with great need.

Currently over 100,000 adult Californians with developmental disabilities are Regional Center clients who are living with an aging parent or caregiver. These clients will someday be in need of a home where they can age in place. How much better if that person with disabilities can age in place in their very own community.

While I am grateful that here in Pleasanton we now have Sunflower Hill at Irby Ranch, Irby Ranch has space for only 37-38 adults with disabilities. That is quite a tiny drop in the bucket when you consider the number of Regional Center clients in the area that want, and soon will need, a place to live.

Lafayette is a wonderful city that would absolutely gain immensely from having a residential community for adults with special needs. Through my son and others, I have seen firsthand the amazing benefits to not just the community of those with special needs but to the community at-large when they interact with one another. We began a special needs soccer program called E-Soccer ("E" for "Exceptional" Soccer) in our community and the benefit to the volunteers was often even greater than the benefit to the developmentally disabled community! I believe having a residential community for adults with developmental disabilities in Lafayette will be incredibly beneficial to the city in the very same way.

While I know this location would not personally help our family's situation, there are many in Lafayette for whom it would be an incredible opportunity, so I speak for this project on their behalf.

Thank you for your consideration of this important request. We hope you will affirm the proposed Lafayette Lane Community.

Sincerely, Anne Roby

Mother to a wonderful son with Down Syndrome Board Member of Sunflower Hill

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From: Robbins, Joanne

Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 9:25 AM

To: Janene Goodman

Cc: Eisberg, Jean, Wolff, Greg

Subject: RE: Letter in support of Lafayette Lane Community proposed project

Dear Mr. Goodman: Thank you for writing the Lafayette City Council. Your e-mail is being forwarded to Mayor Candell, Vice Mayor Gerringer and Councilmembers Anduri, Burks and Dawson. Senior Planner Sarah Allen will forward your e-mail to the General Plan Advisory Committee.

Your comments will be considered as part of their deliberations when this item comes before them. We will also include your e-mail as part of the public record.

To stay abreast of this and other topics before the City, please sign-up for Lafayette’s publications and e-notifications to receive meeting notices via e-mail here.

Again, thank you for writing the City of Lafayette. Please note that your correspondence to the City, including to Councilmembers and City Staff, becomes part of the public record and is disclosable under the California Public Record Act. Joanne Robbins, CMC City Clerk City of Lafayette 3675 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 210 Lafayette, CA 94549 925-284-1968 925-299-3210 (direct)

From: Janene Goodman <janenegoodman@hotmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 7:57 PM

To: cityhall <cityhall@ci.lafayette.ca.us>

Cc: Bret Goodman <bretjgoodman@gmail.com>

Subject: Letter in support of Lafayette Lane Community proposed project Dear Lafayette Planning Commission,

We are writing to express our overwhelming support for the Sunflower Hill project that will provide an inclusive and affordable housing development for the special needs community.

Our family moved to Lafayette over 20 years ago from San Francisco and have enjoyed raising our three daughters in this community. Our children attended Lafayette schools and were active in the numerous clubs and organizations here before leaving for college. Bret and I have enjoyed being very active in our community – supporting our schools and serving on several local non-profit boards over the past 15 years.

Lafayette has a history of providing programs for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We have seen the life changing impact these programs, which value diversity and inclusion, have on the individuals and the overall community. Lafayette Lane would continue this by providing a much needed resource to the large number of Lafayette residents caring for a family member with disabilities. The ability to have a loved one living close by would greatly benefit the lives of all family members. Lafayette Lane Community would further support these families and members of our community and provide affordable housing that is close to stores, restaurants, medical, library, parks, and police.

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Thank you for your consideration of this request. It is our hope that you will affirm the proposed Lafayette Lane Community.

Sincerely,

Janene and Bret Goodman 3675 Happy Valley Rd. Lafayette, CA. 94549

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From: Robbins, Joanne

Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 9:29 AM

To: Debi Zentner

Cc: Eisberg, Jean, Wolff, Greg Subject: FW: Sunflower Hill Attachments: bruce video.MOV

Dear Ms. Zentner: Thank you for writing the Lafayette City Council. Your e-mail is being forwarded to Mayor Candell, Vice Mayor Gerringer and Councilmembers Anduri, Burks and Dawson.

Your comments will be considered as part of their deliberations when this item comes before them. We will also include your e-mail as part of the public record.

To stay abreast of this and other topics before the City, please sign-up for Lafayette’s publications and e-notifications to receive meeting notices via e-mail here.

Again, thank you for writing the City of Lafayette. Please note that your correspondence to the City, including to Councilmembers and City Staff, becomes part of the public record and is disclosable under the California Public Record Act. Joanne Robbins, CMC City Clerk City of Lafayette 3675 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 210 Lafayette, CA 94549 925-284-1968 925-299-3210 (direct)

From: Debi Zentner <debi@divmg.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 9:09 PM To: cityhall <cityhall@ci.lafayette.ca.us> Subject: Sunflower Hill

Good evening:

My name is Debi Zentner. I work and live in Pleasanton and I am on the Board of Sunflower Hill. My brother, Bruce, who is 55 year old, lives at Sunflower Hill and I am his Legal

Guardian. Bruce goes to a Day Program in Livermore called Enjoy Life More. Bruce has worked in the past in several different occupations, from washing police cars in Richmond, working in Burger King and Denny’s, etc. He is very involved in Special Olympics and

Pleasanton’s DD activity group called RADD. He moved into Sunflower Hill in October. I have attached the video when Bruce found out that he was accepted into Sunflower Hill. The

opportunity to live by himself for the first time in 55 years was incredible and he was, obviously, overwhelmed and filled with emotions. Bruce’s mother has dementia, lives in a memory care facility and is 85 years old. I am Bruce’s older sister so without Sunflower Hill I would have difficulty finding housing for him, and it would be very difficult if he could not live by me and his mother. As I am sure you are aware, affordable housing for adults with

developmental disabilities is desperately needed in the State of California. In Californians 63%, of adult with developmental disabilities (approximately 102,673 individuals) are Regional Center clients who are living with an aging parent or caregiver.

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Lafayette is a perfect City for the DD community. The area is safe, well assessible to

transportation, family orientated and a great place to live. Your consideration of the future housing opportunity for development disable individuals is greatly appreciated.

Debi Zentner

Vice President, Board of Directors

925-200-6381 /

debi@divmg.com

www.sunflowerhill.org

W: www.sunflowerhill.org

Facebook | Instagram

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From: Robbins, Joanne

Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 10:33 AM

To: A Roby

Cc: Eisberg, Jean, Wolff, Greg Subject: RE: Support for Lafayette Lane

Dear Ms. Roby: Thank you for writing the Lafayette City Council. Your e-mail is being forwarded to Mayor Candell, Vice Mayor Gerringer and Councilmembers Anduri, Burks and Dawson.

Your comments will be considered as part of their deliberations when this item comes before them. We will also include your e-mail as part of the public record.

To stay abreast of this and other topics before the City, please sign-up for Lafayette’s publications and e-notifications to receive meeting notices via e-mail here.

Again, thank you for writing the City of Lafayette. Please note that your correspondence to the City, including to Councilmembers and City Staff, becomes part of the public record and is disclosable under the California Public Record Act. Joanne Robbins, CMC City Clerk City of Lafayette 3675 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 210 Lafayette, CA 94549 925-284-1968 925-299-3210 (direct)

From: A Roby <ahroby@gmail.com>

Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 4:17 PM To: cityhall <cityhall@ci.lafayette.ca.us> Cc: Kathy Layman <kathyl@sunflowerhill.org> Subject: Support for Lafayette Lane

Dear Lafayette City Council Members,

My name is Anne Roby. I am a resident of Pleasanton, California, and a proud mother of an adult son with Down syndrome. I also serve on the Board of Sunflower Hill. I am writing in support of Lafayette Lane.

We have lived in the Bay Area since our son was seven years old and he has been a part of the community, fully included in school and a participant in sports and other events, since we moved here. We lived in Walnut Creek, where we had a number of friends from Lafayette who had children with special needs, before finally landing in Pleasanton.

When people think of housing needs and affordable housing needs, the developmentally disabled community is often not even considered, and yet it is a group with great need. Currently over 100,000 adult Californians with developmental disabilities are Regional Center clients who are living with an aging parent or caregiver. These clients will someday be in need of a home where they can age in place. How much better if that person with disabilities can age in place in their very own community.

While I am grateful that here in Pleasanton we now have Sunflower Hill at Irby Ranch, Irby Ranch has space for only 37-38 adults with disabilities. That is quite a tiny drop in the bucket when you consider the number of Regional Center clients in the area that want, and soon will need, a place to live.

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Lafayette is a wonderful city that would absolutely gain immensely from having a residential community for adults with special needs. Through my son and others, I have seen firsthand the amazing benefits to not just the community of those with special needs but to the community at-large when they interact with one another. We began a special needs soccer program called E-Soccer ("E" for "Exceptional" Soccer) in our community and the benefit to the volunteers was often even greater than the benefit to the developmentally disabled community! I believe having a residential

community for adults with developmental disabilities in Lafayette will be incredibly beneficial to the city in the very same way.

While I know this location would not personally help our family's situation, there are many in Lafayette for whom it would be an incredible opportunity, so I speak for this project on their behalf.

Thank you for your consideration of this important request. We hope you will affirm the proposed Lafayette Lane Community.

Sincerely, Anne Roby

Mother to a wonderful son with Down Syndrome Board Member of Sunflower Hill

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From: Rosemary Kirbach <rosemarykirbach@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 11:55 AM

To: Robbins, Joanne

Cc: Allen, Sarah, Wolff, Greg

Subject: Re: Lafayette Lane Support Letter Attachments: SFH LAFAYETTE CITY COUNCIL.docx

Hi - I just reviewed the staff report (great job - very well written) but it appears my January 19 letter was not included with the other letters. Would you be so kind as to add it to the link and the report? Thanks so much! Rosemary

On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 04:53:10 PM PST, Robbins, Joanne <jrobbins@ci.lafayette.ca.us> wrote:

Der Mr. & Mrs. Kirbach: Thank you for writing the Lafayette City Council. Your e-mail is being forwarded to Mayor Candell, Vice Mayor Gerringer and Councilmembers Anduri, Burks and Dawson. Senior Planner Sarah Allen will forward your e-mail to the General Plan Advisory Committee.

Your comments will be considered as part of their deliberations when this item comes before them. We will also include your e-mail as part of the public record.

To stay abreast of this and other topics before the City, please sign-up for Lafayette’s publications and e-notifications to receive meeting notices via e-mail here.

Again, thank you for writing the City of Lafayette. Please note that your correspondence to the City, including to Councilmembers and City Staff, becomes part of the public record and is disclosable under the California Public Record Act. Joanne Robbins, CMC City Clerk City of Lafayette 3675 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 210 Lafayette, CA 94549 925-284-1968 925-299-3210 (direct)

From: Rosemary Kirbach <rosemarykirbach@yahoo.com>

Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 4:10 PM

To: Robbins, Joanne <JRobbins@ci.lafayette.ca.us>; cityhall <cityhall@ci.lafayette.ca.us>

Subject: Lafayette Lane Support Letter

Hi Joanne - Can you please include this in the public comments section of the staff report and also forward to the council members? Thanks so much!

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CAUTION: This email has been originated outside the organization.

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Dear Lafayette City Council Members,

My name is Rosemary Kirbach, and my husband Lee and I have lived in Lafayette for 26 years where we have raised our three sons - Brendan (26), Patrick (23) and Colin (20). Like many, we initially moved to Lafayette because of its great public schools but ended up staying because of the wonderful and supportive community that has given us so much.

When he was 3, Patrick was diagnosed with autism and started the early intervention program at Burton Valley. He received speech therapy, occupational therapy, applied behavioral analysis and social skills training. Those were busy days to say the least but he was an absolute trooper and never complained. Lee and I decided soon after Patrick was diagnosed that while his needs were far more intense, we would try our best to provide him similar opportunities to those that Brendan and Colin had. Like his brothers, Patrick is athletic and very interested in sports. He participates in Special Olympics basketball and swimming, rides his bike in our neighborhood every day rain or shine and loves to run (and count) 8 laps on the Acalanes track. In 2006 I started the Lafayette Little League Challenger program and served on the Little League Board. I also was a founding Board member of SEED (Special Education Enrichment Development Foundation). Through these organizations, I met a lot of local families with special needs children and developed many close friendships. We celebrated our children’s milestones together and shared our fears. As Patrick began high school, I started to research living options for him as I knew he would age out of the transition program at 22. Sadly, I discovered that there were very few choices and the ones that best fit his needs were out of state, had long wait lists or were expensive (50k per year). Fortunately, I met Sunflower Hill (SFH) founder Susan Houghton in 2013 and began working closely with her. The SFH model resonated with me as the most viable option for Patrick. I served as Legal Counsel on the SFH Board from 2014- early 2017 and have been an active member of the Land Committee from 2017 to the present.

As some of you know, I’ve been advocating for a SFH community in Lafayette since 2015. It is the missing piece – we already have top notch special ed school programs, plenty of social and recreational opportunities and highly- respected day and vocational programs like Las Trampas and Futures Explored. The need for housing is compelling. I am so grateful that Perry Hariri and Caleb Roope came to see our SFH at Irby Ranch project while it was under construction, toured our garden program, and selected SFH as its inclusionary partner. We appreciate that the developers and Ward & Young architects have solicited our input on design for this unique population and been so responsive to our requests and changes.

Just like every community should have senior housing, it should have special needs housing. Lafayette is a community of character, inclusivity and compassion, and I hope to see the Lafayette Lane project approved.

Respectfully, Rosemary Kirbach

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From: Robbins, Joanne

Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 10:11 AM To: ty allison (tyallisonphoto@comcast.net) Cc: Eisberg, Jean, Wolff, Greg

Subject: Miramar Lafayette Lane - Allison Public Comment for City Council Meeting 1/25 Item 11a2 Attachments: CityCouncil125.docx

Dear Mr. Allison: Thank you for writing the Lafayette City Council. Your e-mail is being forwarded to Mayor Candell, Vice Mayor Gerringer and Councilmembers Anduri, Burks and Dawson.

Your comments will be considered as part of their deliberations when this item comes before them. We will also include your e-mail as part of the public record.

To stay abreast of this and other topics before the City, please sign-up for Lafayette’s publications and e-notifications to receive meeting notices via e-mail here.

Again, thank you for writing the City of Lafayette. Please note that your correspondence to the City, including to Councilmembers and City Staff, becomes part of the public record and is disclosable under the California Public Record Act. Joanne Robbins, CMC City Clerk City of Lafayette 3675 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 210 Lafayette, CA 94549 925-284-1968 925-299-3210 (direct)

From: ty allison <tyallisonphoto@comcast.net> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021 5:58 PM

To: Robbins, Joanne <JRobbins@ci.lafayette.ca.us> Subject: Letter for City Council Meeting 1/25 Item 11a2

CAUTION: This email has been originated outside the organization.

City of Luxurycondo, Ca. City Council Meeting 1/25/2021 Item 11A-2

To whom it may concern,

I strongly urge you not to approve this project.

This is the largest development ever conceived for the downtown by a great deal. It is a massive and bloated development that is not in keeping with the downtown corridor.

While this location is technically in the East End, it is much more linked with the Plaza and Downtown Retail districts, as well as having close proximity to the library, and should have a more traditional Plaza District feeling.

When Merrill Gardens was built they did a good job of keeping a lower height and design that blended well with the surrounding area and transitioning to the library.

This does not, the heights are excessive and will dwarf everything in this neighborhood.

There are numerous areas in the downtown specific plan, these are quotes from the plan, that this development defies: “Create a downtown with small town character.”

“This is the single most common comment about downtown planning. No matter what opinions are about traffic, parking, building height, or future growth, people love the feel of their small town downtown surrounded by hillsides and oaks – an oasis hidden away in the middle of the very urban Bay Area.”

“Preserve the small town character through a district-based strategy while guiding development to enhance this character while maintaining scenic views to surrounding hills and maximizing the enjoyment of its natural environment."

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“Preserves the downtown’s natural features – its creeks and trees – so they continue to contribute the downtown character and the community’s quality of life.”

“An abundance of trees and landscape will mitigate the freeway.”

It is stunning, that project after project, the City Council has spearheaded the clearcutting of trees in the Downtown, frankly, shame on you. This project wants to remove 156 trees!!! How is that possible when you consider the notoriety that has occurred over PGE wanting to cut nearby trees. This town cares about their trees, how can you consider this!?!?

The design lacks any of the traditional aspects of Lafayette, which is critical to a development that transitions so closely to the Trails neighborhood.

This is yet another boxy lookalike gulag development that is being carpet bombed all over California. No soul. It’s one thing to dump this next to a BART station or the freeway in Fremont, but not in the middle of our downtown.

Lafayette is being rapidly overdevelopment. Lafayette is seeing higher rate of developments than any small town in Northern California. Our RHNA number through late 2022 are 372 units.

A few years ago, Don Tantzin and the City Council thought that the RHNA numbers were excessive, and got a reduction.

Yet for this period we are now looking at 1,075 units that have been built, are under construction or in the pipeline, an increase of almost 300% over those RHNA numbers!

We have a narrow downtown with only ONE main street. The traffic there at many times has already become very intense.

This is a very busy and difficult intersection as it is. This development will without a doubt have a very detrimental impact on traffic and safety along this corridor and at that intersection, it is literally an accident waiting to happen.

Simple common sense tells you that this traffic corridor is being maxed out and every new development will only make this worse, hundreds of more cars.

The City Council seems to be under some illusion that you can dump endless number of developments into the downtown and they won’t impact traffic and parking.

The development needs to be scaled back, four stories, and 62 feet!, and numerous buildings is insane for this location. I strongly believe that no building for that area should be over 35 feet.

I strenuously disagree with determinations made by design review Items B, C and D.

For one thing, clearly, this absolutely does not preserve views of surrounding hillsides and ridges as seen from Mt. Diablo Blvd. Almost every line in these items are simply not true.

Lastly, I disagree with the City Council handing out state density bonuses with such ease, thereby dramatically increasing heights, this flies in the face of the Downtown Specific Plan, which was intended to preserve the small town quality that is being rapidly destroyed.

Sincerely, Ty Allison 979 Hawthorn

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City of Luxurycondo, Ca. City Council Meeting 1/25/2021 Item 11A-2

To whom it may concern,

I strongly urge you not to approve this project.

This is the largest development ever conceived for the downtown by a great deal. It is a massive and bloated development that is not in keeping with the downtown corridor.

While this location is technically in the East End, it is much more linked with the Plaza and Downtown Retail districts, as well as having close proximity to the library, and should have a more traditional Plaza District feeling.

When Merrill Gardens was built they did a good job of keeping a lower height and design that blended well with the surrounding area and transitioning to the library.

This does not, the heights are excessive and will dwarf everything in this neighborhood. There are numerous areas in the downtown specific plan, these are quotes from the plan, that this development defies:

“Create a downtown with small town character.”

“This is the single most common comment about downtown planning. No matter what opinions are about traffic, parking, building height, or future growth, people love the feel of their small town downtown surrounded by hillsides and oaks – an oasis hidden away in the middle of the very urban Bay Area.”

“Preserve the small town character through a district-based strategy while

guiding development to enhance this character while maintaining scenic views to surrounding hills and maximizing the enjoyment of its natural environment." “Preserves the downtown’s natural features – its creeks and trees – so they continue to contribute the downtown character and the community’s quality of life.”

“An abundance of trees and landscape will mitigate the freeway.”

It is stunning, that project after project, the City Council has spearheaded the clearcutting of trees in the Downtown, frankly, shame on you.

This project wants to remove 156 trees!!! How is that possible when you consider the notoriety that has occurred over PGE wanting to cut nearby trees. This town cares about their trees, how can you consider this!?!?

The design lacks any of the traditional aspects of Lafayette, which is critical to a development that transitions so closely to the Trails neighborhood.

This is yet another boxy lookalike gulag development that is being carpet bombed all over California. No soul. It’s one thing to dump this next to a BART station or the freeway in Fremont, but not in the middle of our downtown. Lafayette is being rapidly overdevelopment. Lafayette is seeing higher rate of developments than any small town in Northern California.

Our RHNA number through late 2022 are 372 units.

A few years ago, Don Tantzin and the City Council thought that the RHNA numbers were excessive, and got a reduction.

Yet for this period we are now looking at 1,075 units that have been built, are under construction or in the pipeline, an increase of almost 300% over those RHNA numbers!

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We have a narrow downtown with only ONE main street. The traffic there at many times has already become very intense.

This is a very busy and difficult intersection as it is. This development will without a doubt have a very detrimental impact on traffic and safety along this corridor and at that intersection, it is literally an accident waiting to happen. Simple common sense tells you that this traffic corridor is being maxed out and every new development will only make this worse, hundreds of more cars.

The City Council seems to be under some illusion that you can dump endless number of developments into the downtown and they won’t impact traffic and parking.

The development needs to be scaled back, four stories, and 62 feet!, and numerous buildings is insane for this location.

I strongly believe that no building for that area should be over 35 feet.

I strenuously disagree with determinations made by design review Items B, C and D.

For one thing, clearly, this absolutely does not preserve views of surrounding hillsides and ridges as seen from Mt. Diablo Blvd. Almost every line in these items are simply not true.

Lastly, I disagree with the City Council handing out state density bonuses with such ease, thereby dramatically increasing heights, this flies in the face of the Downtown Specific Plan, which was intended to preserve the small town quality that is being rapidly destroyed.

Sincerely, Ty Allison 979 Hawthorn

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From: Robbins, Joanne

Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 10:17 AM

To: Bob McClain

Cc: Wolff, Greg, Rosen, Jenny

Subject: Miramar Lafayette Lane - McClain Public Comment for City Council Meeting 1/25 Item 11a2 Dear Mr. McClain: Thank you for writing the Lafayette City Council. Your e-mail is being forwarded to Mayor Candell, Vice Mayor Gerringer and Councilmembers Anduri, Burks and Dawson.

Your comments will be considered as part of their deliberations should this item come before them. We will also include your e-mail as part of the public record.

To stay abreast of this and other topics before the City, please sign-up for Lafayette’s publications and e-notifications to receive meeting notices via e-mail here.

Again, thank you for writing the City of Lafayette. Please note that your correspondence to the City, including to Councilmembers and City Staff, becomes part of the public record and is disclosable under the California Public Record Act. Joanne Robbins, CMC City Clerk City of Lafayette 3675 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 210 Lafayette, CA 94549 925-284-1968 925-299-3210 (direct)

From: Bob McClain <rossstreet@yahoo.com> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021 10:23 PM To: cityhall <cityhall@ci.lafayette.ca.us>

Subject: Public comment, City Council meeting 1/25, Item 11.A.2, DR25-19 Miramar Mt. Diablo Blvd, LLC

Dear City of Lafayette,

If the City agrees to waive the public art fee as part of a related transaction of an Applicant donation to the Park Theater Trust, the City should find a way to retain an interest it an amount equal to the public art fee.

What would happen if the Park Theater Trust ends up not purchasing the theater, what then? There should be an agreement that the Trust would transfer the $1M to the City for the benefit of public art.

What would happen if the Trust purchased the theater, but was not able to complete a project and instead resold the property? There should be an agreement that the Trust would transfer the $1M to the City for the benefit of public art. Or even if the Trust did purchase the property, did do a renovation and was able to operate for a number of years, but then could not sustain operations and then sold the property. Again, there should be an agreement that the Trust would transfer the $1M to the City for the benefit of public art.

Or maybe instead of $2M to the Trust, it should be $1M to the Trust, $1M to the City and then the City makes an agreement to contribute the $1M towards the purchase of the Park Theater property in exchange for an equity position (kind of like a public/private partnership).

As heartwarming and touching it sounds to benefit the Park Theater Trust, the City, on behalf of its residents, should not be giving away that much money to a private entity without getting something tangible in return.

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Bob McClain

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From: Robbins, Joanne

Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 1:27 PM

To: Meredith Meade

Cc: Eisberg, Jean, Wolff, Greg

Subject: RE: Public Comment in Support for Lafayette Lane Project at Corporate Terraces

Dear Ms. Meade: Thank you for writing the Lafayette City Council. Your e-mail is being forwarded to Mayor Candell, Vice Mayor Gerringer and Councilmembers Anduri, Burks and Dawson.

Your comments will be considered as part of their deliberations when this item comes before them. We will also include your e-mail as part of the public record.

To stay abreast of this and other topics before the City, please sign-up for Lafayette’s publications and e-notifications to receive meeting notices via e-mail here.

Again, thank you for writing the City of Lafayette. Please note that your correspondence to the City, including to Councilmembers and City Staff, becomes part of the public record and is disclosable under the California Public Record Act.

Please note the deadline to have written comments included and distributed to members of the city council is no later than noon on the day of the public meeting.

Joanne Robbins, CMC City Clerk City of Lafayette 3675 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Suite 210 Lafayette, CA 94549 925-284-1968 925-299-3210 (direct) ---Original Message---

From: Meredith Meade <mbmeade@comcast.net> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2021 1:00 PM

To: cityhall <cityhall@ci.lafayette.ca.us>; Robbins, Joanne <JRobbins@ci.lafayette.ca.us> Cc: Dan Meade <dandmeade@gmail.com>

Subject: Public Comment in Support for Lafayette Lane Project at Corporate Terraces Joanne,

Sorry to just get this in under the wire. Hope you are well. Meredith

Dear Mayor Candell and Councilmembers,

We have lived in Lafayette since 1999 and have been active volunteers within our community. Our 3 children attended Lafayette School District schools, and we still have two children at Acalanes High School. Meredith is currently a member of the Lafayette School District Governing Board, but this letter in no way is conveying a position of the Lafayette School District; we write to you today as private citizens.

We write to you in support of the Lafayette Lane Project. We are excited about the inclusion of the low income units designed in conjunction with Sunflower Hill to support members of our special needs community. This housing will allow members of our community to live close to their childhood homes, while also providing an independent living situation. We hope you will approve the project as proposed, with the affordable units contained in one building so that this population may live together and support one another.

Thanks so much for your time and service. Meredith and Dan Meade

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880 Broadmoor Court

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