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(f) Uncontrolled residential development has caused or aggravated in the past and will cause or aggravate in the future the following conditions: (1) Speculation in land values with a premature over- taxing of agricultural property. (2) The construction of residential developments within the community away from centralized shopping areas and public facilities, requiring dependency upon the automobile. (3) The construction of homogeneous, predominately single family detached housing which is unavail- able to persons within the community who have low and moderate incomes. (4) A continuation of the existing imbalance between residential and commercial/industrial development in favor of residential development resulting in a large commuter population. (5) The construction of and improvements to public facilities on a crisis basis. (6) An overburdening of some municipal services and facilities in certain areas of the City and the construction of public facilities and utilities which cannot be fully utilized in other parts of the City. (g) A large amount of the acreage to be developed in the City of Pleasanton within the next twenty years is set aside for com- mercial/industrial uses in order to encourage greater amounts of in- valley employment. Section 2-20.03. Objectives. The protection of the public health, safety and general welfare requires the establishment of a Residential Allocation Program to accomplish the following: (a) Encourage development which fills in existing vacancies near community facilities, decreasing dependency upon the automobile. (b) Coordinate City planning and land regulation in a manner consistent with the general plan. (c) Facilitate and implement the realization of general plan goals which cannot be accomplished by zoning alone. (d) Provide significant incentives to developers to include subsidized housing in their undertakings or provide financial assist- ance to accomplish this goal. -3-