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CITIZENS FOR PLANNED GROWTH IN THE JOHNSON DRIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE The People of the City of Pleasanton hereby ordain and enact as follows: Section 1. Title. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Citizens for Planned Growth in the Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone" Section 2. Findings and Declarations. The People of the City of Pleasanton ( "City ") find and declare as follows: 1. The City has proposed a new "economic development zone" ( "EDZ ") in the northwestern area of the City, located generally along Interstate 680 and at the southeastern corner of the Interstate 680 /Interstate 580 intersection. The City's proposed EDZ is called the "Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone" (or "Johnson Drive EDZ "). 2. The area identified for the Johnson Drive EDZ in the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report, dated September 2015 and on file with the City, identifies twelve parcels as being located within the EDZ. Eleven of those parcels front Johnson Drive and are currently designated as "Business Park" which allows for high - quality, campus -like development, including administrative, professional office, and research uses. Retail commercial uses are also allowed but are limited to those primarily serving business park employees. Floor area ratios are not to exceed 0.6. The remaining parcel, which fronts Commerce Circle, is designated as "General and Limited Industrial" and allows for limited industrial uses with a floor area ratio not exceeding 0.5. 3. The City's Johnson Drive EDZ, however, will amend the City's General Plan to allow several new uses, including a large "club retail" store within the Johnson Drive EDZ. 4. Given the proliferation of retail shopping centers, club retail, and strip malls, it is critical that Pleasanton maintain the capacity for uses such as administrative, professional office, research and development and general and limited industrial, to ensure that businesses have the opportunity to locate in the City and the citizens of Pleasanton have diverse job opportunities close to home. 5. In comparison with the current Business Park and General and Limited Industrial uses, some of the new uses allowed by the Johnson Drive EDZ will generate significantly greater traffic and air quality impacts. 6. The new uses within the Johnson Drive EDZ would degrade traffic level of service at critical intersections within the Johnson Drive EDZ that cannot be mitigated to less - than- significant levels. The increased traffic will also result in vehicle queuing and spill -back on major thoroughfares near the Johnson Drive EDZ, including on Interstate 680 and on Stoneridge Drive, and will result in blocked access to driveways to existing businesses along Johnson Drive. 1