PC-2009-15, DRAFT PLEASANTON GENERAL PLAN 2005-2025

Dispersed Growth Alternative would also not avoid or substantially reduce the significant and unavoidable impacts of the proposed project to increase cumulative vehicle miles traveled greater than the population increase estimated in the newest regional air quality plan The Dispersed Growth Alternative is feasible because it is consistent with the City's planning goals to make the Planning Area more sustainable, to promote the development of walkable communities, to expand and improve the overall roadway/transit/trail network to provide more travel options, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Pleasanton, and to conserve energy through green building and other measures. However, this alternative would not distribute future development as well as the proposed General Plan. Concentrated Residential / Mixed Use Alternative Description The Concentrated Residential / Mixed Use Alternative assumes a mixed land use focus, in Hacienda and adjacent to the West Pleasanton/Dublin BART Station. No residential units would be counted towards the housing cap in the Staples Ranch area, and no additional residential units would be located in the Downtown, in the Kottinger Place / Pleasanton Gardens development, or in the proposed East Pleasanton Specific Plan Area. Retail, office, industrial, and R&D (research and development) uses would have slightly more square feet of development potential than under the proposed General Plan (35,643,000 square feet compared to 34,951,000 square feet). The buildout population of this alternative would be 78,200, the same as under the proposed General Plan, because the alternative proposes the same number of housing units. Finding: Feasible As with the proposed General Plan, the Concentrated Residential / Mixed Use Alternative would include a new Energy Element with its focus on sustainability and conservation, a new Water Element with its focus on sustainability; a revised Air Quality and Climate Change Element with its focus on improving air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and revisions to all elements that would focus on quality of life and sustainability. Limiting population based on the housing cap while allowing and encouraging business development would be a cumulative effect of building out the Planning Area that is intrinsic to both the proposed General Plan and the Concentrated Residential / Mixed Use Alternative. The Concentrated Residential / Mixed Use Alternative would not avoid or substantially reduce the significant and unavoidable impacts of the proposed project to increase cumulative vehicle miles traveled greater than the population increase estimated in the newest regional air quality plan The Concentrated Residential / Mixed Use Alternative is feasible because it is consistent with the City's planning goals to make the Planning Area more sustainable, to promote the development of walkable communities, to expand and improve the overall roadway/transit/trail network to provide more travel options, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Pleasanton, and to conserve energy through green building and other