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• Policy 15: Encourage industrial, commercial, and office development which is compatible with environmental constraints in Pleasanton. • Policy 26: Encourage the participation and collaboration of Pleasanton residents and businesses in land -use planning and decision making. General Plan — Economic and Fiscal Element • Goal 2: Sustain the community's quality of life with a vigorous and diverse economy. • Policy 1: Enhance Pleasanton's diversified economic base through an aggressive business retention and expansion program. • Policy 3: Strengthen the retail sector. • Goal 4: Maintain a diverse and stable revenue system. ▪ Policy 8: Undertake programs which will diversify and help to keep the City's revenue system stable from short-term fluctuations in any one revenue source. • Program 8.1: Promote a varied mix of land uses to ensure a broad revenue base through proactive land use planning and zoning. • Program 8.2: Continue to investigate and utilize potential new revenue sources, particularly those which will not add to the tax burden of residents and local businesses. • Program 18.1: Promote a diverse economic base by implementing the Economic Development Strategic Plan. The proposed General Plan amendment would reduce the total acreage of privately -owned, potentially developable sites in the City with the Business Park (Industrial/Commercial and Office) and General and Limited Industrial land use designations by approximately 40 acres. This change would effectively reduce the amount of land in the City available for light industrial uses. There are other properties in the City that have a General Plan land use designation of Business Park (Industrial/Commercial and Office) or General and Limited Industrial. Therefore, the proposed General Plan amendment to change the land use designation for the project area to Retail/Highway/Service Commercial; Business and Professional Offices would not eliminate new opportunities for industrial development. Based on the City's existing inventory of business park and industrial land, staff believes that there would be adequate remaining land in the City to accommodate industrial development opportunities consistent with the existing General Plan land use designations; especially within the nearby areas to the north of the project area on Commerce Circle, east of the project area on Owens, Franklin, and Johnson Drives, and farther to the east within Hacienda. Page 7 of 22