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Cartlen'dge Trailhead Addendum to the east of Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park and west of the City's Alviso Adobe Park and the Austin Property's Meadowlark Development, which includes eight residential lots and an open space dedication. The property is accessed from Old Foothill Road via a 50-foot wide easement over the Austin Property. The topography of the property slopes upward to the west, with elevations ranging from 440 feet along Old Foothill Road to almost 1,500 feet along the ridge top. From its highest vantage points, the San Francisco Bay, Mount Diablo Range and entire Tri-Valley area can be seen. An existing trail that reputedly was a 1906 Pony Express Route provides convenient access from the bottom of the property to the top of the ridge. The property is in the immediate vicinity of the Calaveras Fault,which appears to run along the base of the ridge. The oak woodland plant community, interspersed with shrubs and grasslands, dominates the Castleridge Property. Native coast live oak and valley oak are found in abundance and understory species also include several native species such as California hazelnut, mugwort and blue wildrye. The site also contains native big leaf maples, California sycamores and Pacific madrones. The property is located within the Alameda Creek Watershed and contains two seasonal streams that drain to the Arroyo de la Laguna, as well as many other seasonal drainages and a natural spring. The property's habitat, part of a critical, contiguous wildlife corridor created by Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park and other local open space lands, supports native, special status plant and animal species. A Preliminary Habitat Assessment commissioned by the property owners in September 2012 indicated a high potential for Alameda Whipsnake, Pallid Bat and Yuma Myotis Bat, and a high to moderate potential for California Red Legged Frog and Golden Eagle. The property also supports potentially over 300 species of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, many of which are prey for the aforementioned special status species. Larger mammals that occur in the area include coyote, blacktailed deer, American badger, bobcat and mountain lion. Austin Property The Austin Property was once part of the Meadowlark Dairy facility, owned and operated by the Austin family. Walter Briggs, great grandfather of Charles and Scott Austin, founded the Meadowlark Dairy in 1919. In 1925, it became the first California dairy certified for product purity and quality and continued operation until closing in 1969. In 2006, the City Council approved the Meadowlark Development, also known as the Austin project (PUD-58), which consists of the development of eight residential units on approximately 8 acres and the establishment of 22 acres of permanent open space. The residential lots would vary in size from approximately 30,462 square feet to 50,928 square feet; 7 of the 8 lots would be accessed from one public street/cul-desac connected to Old Foothill Road opposite the planned driveway entrance to the Alviso Adobe Community Park, and the remaining lot would be be accessed from Old Foothill Road over an existing access driveway.3 With execution of an extension of the Development Agreement for the project in December of 2014, 22 acres of the 30-acre site were deeded to the City of Pleasanton as open space:3 In January of 2016, a project applicant submitted a preliminary request to the City to construct production homes instead of custom homes, modify the 3 City of Pleasanton. 2007. Planning Commission Staff Report for Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map 7813. May 23. 4 City of Pleasanton. 2014. Development Agreement for the Austin Property. Recorded December 8. Alameda County Recorder's Office Document No.2014299747. June 9,2016 4