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City of Pleasanton–Spotorno Ranch Reduced Development Project Initial Study/Consistency Checklist Project Description FirstCarbon Solutions 23 https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480021/Consistency Checklist/21480021 Spotorno Ranch Consistency Checklist ScreenCheck.docx and recreation, and similar uses. General Plan Land Use Element Policy 22 does not allow urban development beyond the UGB line. Measure FF indicates that the southern location of the UGB line through Happy Valley is based on the physical terrain as it extends along the base of the steep hills that enclose the Happy Valley Area. The Measure FF description of the UGB line would place the UGB at the base of Spotorno Hill. (The voter-affirmed UGB map did not include any parcel lines, and it was mapped at a 3,000-foot to 1- inch scale that makes it challenging to precisely locate on a parcel map.) When the City updated its General Plan in 2005, a different mapping program was used, which plotted a slightly different UGB location on the project site, also considered approximate. The site-specific topographical mapping prepared for this project allows for refinement and a more precise placement of this boundary at the base of Spotorno Hill, consistent with the intent of Measure FF. Measure PP and Measure QQ In November 2008, Pleasanton voters approved two ballot initiatives relating to the City’s growth limits and regarding General Plan Policy:7 1. Measure PP: Save Pleasanton’s Hills and Housing Cap, a voter initiative 2. Measure QQ: The Pleasanton Ridgelines Protection and Growth Control Initiative (a City Council measure) These two measures were incorporated into the 2005–2025 Pleasanton General Plan adopted by the City Council on July 21, 2009. Measure PP limits the placement of housing units and structures on slopes of 25 percent or greater or within 100 vertical feet of a ridgeline, limits grading on slopes of 25 percent or more or within 100 feet of a ridgeline to build residential or commercial structures, and exempts from these restrictions projects of 10 or fewer housing units on property that constituted a single legal parcel, as of January 1, 2007. Measure PP also limits subdivision of a legal parcel, existing as of January 1, 2007, to approve no more than 10 housing units. Measure QQ reaffirmed and readopted policies in the then existing General Plan to: (1) preserve scenic hillside and ridge views of specific ridges; (2) study the feasibility of preserving large open space areas in the Southeast Hills; and (3) protect large contiguous areas designated as Open Space in the General Plan. 2.3 - Project Components The project applicant is proposing to build 22 single-family homes on approximately 31 acres within the approximately 33-acre Spotorno Flat Area of the Spotorno Ranch property (Exhibit 3). All homes would be developed to the standards set forth in the HVSP, and consistent with design guidelines 7 As subsequent litigation determined that Pleasanton’s earlier voter adopted housing cap was in conflict with State law, those portions of Measure PP related to the housing cap are not discussed here.