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second priority should be for acquisition of property having significant value for visual character and/or non-motorized recreation. DISCUSSION EBRPD proposes to acquire the 4-acre Glenn property located adjacent to Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, within unincorporated Alameda County, at 10 Tehan Canyon Road (see the complete application in Attachment 2). The subject property is currently improved with a 3,500 square-foot single-family residence (constructed in 1982), a two-car garage, and a detached garage/workshop and cottage. It also contains dense native tree and shrub cover, including oaks, California bay laurel, California black walnut, and coyote brush. Tehan Creek (an ephemeral creek) runs behind the existing residence. The property lies adjacent to the Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, which is known to support many native and special status plant and animal species. The Glenn property lies within an area of the Pleasanton ridgelands that is highly suitable for conservation as it contains habitat known to support the Alameda whipsnake, San Joaquin kit fox, California red-legged frog, California tiger salamander, and Callipe silverspot butterfly. EBRPD staff have recorded sightings of Congdon's tarplant and bristly leptosiphon in the vicinity of the subject site. The Conservation Lands Network finds the Glenn property and the surrounding area to be a critical north-south linkage between the East Bay Hills Range and the South Diablo Range. Acquisition of the property by EBRPD would also eliminate an inholding with Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park and further protect the habitat value of the surrounding parkland. The property also has visual and non-motorized recreational value, as the acquisition of the property may provide an opportunity to provide an alternative trail alignment into the interior of the park from the planned Garms staging area (although other trail alignments on EBRPB land could provide access to the former Garms property, they would require more elevation gain than the potential trail alignment through the subject Glenn property). This trail could provide access to Tehan Falls, which is currently not accessible to the public. The use of the buildings on the site has not been determined by EBRPD, but one of the structures would likely be used for a park ranger residence, and would provide the ability for EBRPD staff to more effectively monitor and protect the sensitive area around Tehan Falls once the Garms staging area opens to the public. Funding The total cost of the Glenn property is $1,900,000. Apart from the requestmade to the Advisory Committee, EBRPD funding for this property includes money from EBRPD Measure WW, which will fund 68 percent of the total purchase price. As of April 11, 2017, the balance of the trust fund for the Western Area (20 percent) was $588,808.59. Funding the request from EBRPD as approved by the Advisory Committee would reduce the'balance by $100,000. Page 3 of 4