*If you have already signed the paper petition, DO NOT sign the electronic petition*

On July 1, 2021, on a 3 to 2 vote, the Manteca City Planning Commission approved a recommendation to send the Third Amendment to the CenterPoint Development Agreement to the Manteca City Council for consideration. This amendment would supersede the Memorandum of Understanding with CenterPoint in which restricted operating hours were removed on Container Yard #2 once completed as a condition in exchange for a promise by CenterPoint to complete Intermodal Way all the way to the proposed project site so that the truck traffic inherent in this project would be alleviated from Airport Way as soon as possible.  The CenterPoint Container Yard #2 project provides 486 parking spaces for transient semi-trailers to add an estimated 816 daily truck trips onto Airport Way.  This Third Amendment, in fact, only requires CenterPoint Properties Trust to use “commercially reasonable” efforts to complete Intermodal Way, and it precludes the City from reinstating the operating hour restriction if there were any “Unavoidable Delays” towards completion of Intermodal Way. These words are the same language we have heard from CenterPoint Properties Trust for the past eleven years every time they pursue a new project along Airport Way, but to date, there has been no progress in the completion of Intermodal Way.  This Third Amendment gives up all of the City’s remaining negotiating leverage.

We, the undersigned, strongly urge the City not to execute this Third Amendment to the CenterPoint Development Agreement by requiring Intermodal Way to be completed before issuing Certificate of Occupancy. We also urge the City to direct the Planning Commission to place restricted hours of operation, a clearance bar, and a truck barrier on the CenterPoint South project as it is unknown what tenant activities may further compound the traffic, noise, and air quality issues.  Lastly, we urge the Mayor and Council to direct the Chief of Police to enhance semi-truck enforcement on Airport Way and Lathrop Road and protect its residents. 

• The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) Traffic Assessment omitted consideration of an additional 816 daily truck trips on Airport Way, only looking at daily truck trips internally departing onto Roth Road. 
• The Environmental Noise Assessment only considered noise impacts generated within the CenterPoint project boundaries. It did not include the additional noise generated by 816 daily truck trips on Airport Way, especially as they relate to the typical downshifting to decelerate to a turn in and accelerating to pick up speed as they leave the access point.
• No Air Quality Assessment was done to assess impacts of additional daily truck trips traveling on Airport Way, which was never envisioned in the original DEIR.  The EIR Addendum erroneously assumed no change in Air Quality, indicating the number of daily truck trips in the original EIR would not be exceeded. Thus there would be no increased Air Quality issues.
• Given the southern connection to Airport Way established by this project, a far more significant percentage of trucks will illegally use Lathrop Road to reach Hwy 99 or CA-Interstate 5 or illegally continue south down Airport Way to Hwy 120. Furthermore, the intersection at Airport Way and Lathrop Road does not currently meet the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA) or California Legal standards for turning radius in any possible turn directions.