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L `� 12284 Larch Road Tracy, CA 95304 April 10, 2006 San Joaquin County Community Development Department Development Services Division 1810 East Hazelton Avenue Stockton, CA 95205 Attention: Karla Kuhl To All This May Concern: This letter is written in response to your copy of a request by Paul Bagha of Folsom for a use permit application to build a 250 seat religious facility on the comer of Larch and Naglee Roads in Tracy. After careful review of this application, we as residents on Larch Road wish to make it known to all concerned that we are opposed to such a facility to be built on this site at this time under the current environmental conditions in existence in this neighborhood. • Within a little over a linear mile, there are already in existence two areas of open water ponds/leach fields. Another quarter mile area of open ponds has been set aside for open pondstleach fields within this same distance. The Bagha application proposes yet another open detention pond for a large facility. The health and safety of the residents within our neighborhood is being negatively affected by increasing breeding grounds for mosquitoes and the diseases they carry. The amount of spraying carried on by the county does not greatly impede the preponderance of mosquitoes around these open waters. Even our livestock are negatively affected. One of the reasons we were forced to give up the breeding of squab on our ranch was due to the increase of the mosquito population as more open water ponds appeared in our neighborhood. • The increased traffic on Larch Road in the last 10 years has created a safety hazard and concern within this country neighborhood. Our two lane road now carries a high number of commuter cars speeding by every morning and evening. During the mid day, our road is busy with people speeding to and from the nearby mall and shopping areas. The Bagha application shows that the new religious facility plans to accommodate 84 cars, several times a week. With a conservative average of 2 people per car 3 times a week, this adds another 250 cars to the traffic problem already in existence. This country road was built when and to accommodate traffic of 3-5 cars per hour at a speed of 25-35 mph, not the current congested bypass that exists today.