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Karen Diaz <br /> Pn��I Tet�rfien <br /> Subject: FW: Expanding the UGB toward Livermore for res��ff� Cm7x1AF2F n <br /> Provided to the City ou cl� <br /> After Distribu ion of Packet <br /> From: Anne Fox r <br /> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:54 AM <br /> To: Mayor and City Council; Jonathan Lowell <br /> Date <br /> ) ) � <br /> Cc: <br /> Subject: Expanding the UGB toward Livermore for residential and commercial development <br /> Dear Mayor and City Council, <br /> In November 1996, the voters adopted a permanent Urban Growth Boundary in Pleasanton with Measure FF. In <br /> November 2000, County voters adopted a county Urban Growth Boundary that is contiguous with the Pleasanton UGB. <br /> A City Council cannot change the UGB or its related General Plan provisions without a vote of the people. <br /> Measure FF stated "Shall the Pleasanton Urban Growth Boundary Initiative be adopted to require voter approval of all <br /> but minor changes to the City's Urban Growth Boundary?" and I have attached it here. <br /> Contemplating residential and commercial development and high density development outside the urban growth <br /> boundary is not a minor change. Voters must approve UGB amendments in accordance to Measure FF as well as the <br /> "Adjustments to the Boundary" section in the legal analysis section located on page PLM-15 of the attached document. <br /> Also it states in "The Initiative" section that "...neither the UGB itself(other than for minor adjustments as described <br /> above) nor the UGB Policy/Programs could be amended by the City Council; it would require a further, affirmative vote <br /> of the electorate." <br /> Measure FF amended the GP to permit only non-urban uses beyond the GP. In addition, in regards to Program 11.2, it <br /> stateds ...."Extend Urban Services only to areas within the UGB, with the following possible exceptions for selected <br /> Urban Services:....(3)on reclaimed land which is currently designated as Sand and Gravel Harvesting in East Pleasanton <br /> when the potential future use is non-urban." <br /> High density residential and commercial development outside the UGB between Pleasanton and Livermore that <br /> Pleasanton is contemplating is not a "non-urban" use. <br /> Thanks <br /> Anne Fox <br /> t <br />