Letters Letters (January 02, 2004)

No to California Splash

Editor,

We strongly OPPOSE the California Splash Water Park. As taxpaying citizens of Pleasanton, we believe that our opposition to this park should be taken into consideration when the council members make their final decision.

The only profit makers from this park will be the developer of the park and the East Bay Regional Park District. The only gain the city and citizens of Pleasanton will see is an increase in traffic, an increase in crime, an increase in pollution and an increase in taxes. Council members: Please listen to the citizens of Pleasanton! We don't want this park! Don't make the same mistake as the Bernal Property loss. Briana SchererKottinger Drive

Letters Letters (January 02, 2004)

Thanks for 'no' vote on waterslides

Editor,

I wanted to thank the Pleasanton Planning Commission members Brian Arkin, Matt Sullivan and Harvey Kameny for voting no on the proposed waterslide expansion (Pleasanton Weekly, Dec. 19). The neighborhood people we have talked to are opposed to the project and concerned with increased traffic (200,000 more visitors per year, concentrated in the summer months) running through our neighborhoods, noise, increased air pollution from autos, etc. I believe that the disadvantages of this Anaheim-type project outweigh the advantages for Pleasanton residents. Some people we know said that they already avoid Shadow Cliffs and go to Vasona Lake in Los Gatos if they want a nice quiet picnic by a lake. I think a waterslide project of those dimensions and impacts should be placed elsewhere (close to a freeway - Dublin or Livermore?). Now we need the Pleasanton City Council to vote no. George ReidGerard Court

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