Delaossa lives on a short section of La Rinconada Drive off of Wedgewood Avenue. He and other residents say the club's delivery entrance on Wedgewood has caused the neighborhood undue grief, in the form of road deterioration, traffic backups and dangerous roadside conditions. They had hoped to get service deliveries redirected to the Clearview Drive entrance used by club members, but that didn't happen.

The commission and town staff said the remodel plans already called for a new sidewalk and a widened delivery entrance, as well as improvements that address other neighborhood problems such as storm-drain flooding. The commission also asked the country club's management to request that deliveries be made between the heaviest school traffic times—a request with which La Rinconada representatives said they would gladly comply.

But for Delaossa, the only solution is for the traffic to be moved. So on June 21, he filed an appeal of the decision.

"The main reason we're trying to do this is we feel the neighborhood above us can share some of the traffic," he said. "We feel that's a fair deal."

But according to town staff, Clearview and the upper section of La Rinconada Drive near it are not fit for service vehicles. Though the streets are wider at points, they do not have lane markings, stop signs or any of the other designations that make Wedgewood a "neighborhood collector." Clearview and La Rinconada are simply designated as neighborhood streets.

"None of those streets really meet the definition of neighborhood collector," Community Development Director Bud Lortz said. "The hierarchy of streets in town would indicate that the truck traffic should be on Wedgewood."

Delaossa said he wants to get Clearview and La Rinconada drives reclassified, if that's the only thing keeping deliveries on Wedgewood. But both Lortz and Town Engineer Kevin Rohani said that would require amending the town's General Plan—something not likely to happen.

Other neighbors even doubt the appeal will do much. Mary Rose, property manager of the Wimbledon Place townhome complex, said she doesn't expect the town to redirect the delivery traffic. Currently, most of that traffic takes Wimbledon Drive to the Wedgewood entrance. Some delivery trucks—and cars—go past the townhomes without slowing down, often without even stopping at the intersection of the two streets. Wimbledon was intentionally built as a narrow street for traffic-calming purposes in the 1970s, but Rose said the narrowness only causes problems.

"The trucks can't make the turn without going up over the curb," she said. "It's noisy and destructive and it's not safe."

Delaossa's appeal won't make Wimbledon any wider. But he's hoping the commission will listen to his contention that residents of the upper neighborhoods should "share" the delivery traffic.

The town "should have at least done a study, taken a look at the amount of commercial traffic, if they're going to be fair and just," he said. "If I'm wrong, I'll back off."

Lortz said the only way a planning commission decision may be overturned by the town council is if the commission is determined to have made an error, ruled on a policy issue over which it does not have authority or made its decision before new information came to light.

"The policies relating to how [town council] deals with appeals are intentionally stringent, to validate the planning commission's decision," Lortz said.

Rohani said that based on precedent, appeals generally do not stand a very good chance of succeeding.

"You can look at the history of it, and there aren't too many occasions where the council overturned planning commission decisions," he said.

The price tag alone is probably enough to keep many residents from filing appeals. But Delaossa is passionate enough about his neighborhood that he was willing to pay.

"It's gonna cost us $1,000 and a bunch of money on copies," he said. "But we think it's worth it. We're not gonna take it. We're gonna get what's due."