Highly doubtful a new Costco will cause 'more' traffic region wise. IN fact, should reduce traffic as most who would use this proposed new Costco would be driving LESS. Would be less for me and this would become the Costco I go to. the 12k traffic figure, wasn't that for the entire zone and not just 'a' Costco? Very doubtful a Costco would generate quite that many cars on ave per day. That would be over 24k people, per day maybe? Entire families go for Costco trips. :)
Traffic whine is a nit; SOMETHING would go there and ANYTHING would require car traffic. I suspect will pass with flying colors and the NIMBY's will switch to the next whine and cheese event.

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I'm glad and stress free living out of state. Bring in Costco, IKEA and whatever else. Let my 2 rental property values keep climbing. Grew up in Pleasanton late 60's to 2010. Planners, developers already ruined the quality of life with all the congestion, competition. Bring in high rise buildings. Let's turn Pleasanton into San Jose ok? I'm laughing all the way to the bank.

Jon, a resident of Valley Trails:

You are just another anonymous poster.
LOL every time you pay your property tax.

Thank Tim for giving us the true facts from the SEIR. 12,000 additional vehicles on weekdays; 15,000 additional vehicles (cars and delivery trucks) on weekends at full buildout with Costco as part of the mix in the JDEDZ. I understand 7,000 are attributable to the Costco warehouse. What is uncertain, is if this includes 4,000 vehicles from the gas piece, or if this is an additional 4,000.

You are right on-- it's the weekday traffic at the I-680 interchange would be a huge issue. The City admitted at the April 12 meeting, that Caltrans had not approved modifications to the Interchange. There is no approval; no timeline.

What a mess this could be if approved!

Obviously both of these stores will increase traffic in the area and regionally. The problem here lies with CALTRANS and the 680/580/Stoneridge interchanges. They have no plan or money to fix these already gridlocked exits and entrances. It's insane to consciously add more traffic without a CALTRANS solution in place. Call me a NIMBY, call it self interest, call it whatever you like! I vote NO!

Do we really need 3 Costco's within 8 miles of each other?!? Seems like a lot of bulk shopping! I like Costco but only go maybe one or two times a year. I live in Pleasanton and don't mind driving to one of the two local Costco's. They are so close.

I never knew the gas portion was coming with Costco. I was undecided. Now I am a certain "no". Why??? Well, my friend, who works at Costco, says the average Costco pumps 1,000,000 gallons a month. Gee, that's about like adding 10 gas stations. This also equates to about 4 gas loads a day. So not only will there be an endless line of cars waiting to get gas (polution/traffic), we will have to deal with these huge tankers, to the of about 100+ a month. Again, Costco sells, on average, 1,000,000 gallons a month at their "gas station". Sounds more like a receipt for grid lock, road rage, and pollution. I'll pass.

Cooter:

Costco gas stations are only 00.16% of the 170,000 gas stations that sell gasoline in the United States.

Cooter, that makes no sense. Regardless of having a Costco here, people are going to get gas from somewhere. In fact if they really wanted to get Costco gas, they will drive to Livermore to get it, causing more air pollution than if it were closer to home.

Yes, most of us must buy gas somewhere- but, would you put 10 gas stations in one spot? 30% of all gasoline sold in Pleasanton, now would be in one spot. If approved, Costco would have 24 fueling dispensers. Each servicing 157 cars per day (SEIR). People waiting in line up to 30 minutes with their cars idling. Traffic, congestion, rage, tanker trucks constantly, pollution. More convenient "mom and pop" stations could close.

If this is what you want for our city, you have the right to your own opinion.

Ok, so after waiting a while I finally had a chance to pump gas today at the Safeway station on Bernal near the fairgrounds. I purposely waited because I wanted to see just how long it took to fill up my cars 18 gallon tank, which I think is probably average tank capacity.

Here is the methodology:
1. Drove up to the tank and as soon as I stopped at the tank, I noted the time.
2. Used the debit/credit card instead of going into the store to pay.
3. Pumped until it stopped and then no more.
4. Printed the receipt.
5. got back into my seat and stopped the timer as soon as I drove clear of the pump.

All told, I was at the pump 7 1/2 min.

So, given the time, I was able to calculate the following 60min/7.5min=8 fill-ups per pump per hour.

Given a 10 hour business day that would equate to 80 fill-ups per pump X 24 pumps = 1920 cars per business day, less on weekends.

1920 cars is full capacity. I'm not sure how they came up with the numbers they came up with but I suppose they use different averages.