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2005 Pleasanton Plan 2025 2.0 Land Use Element <br />2-9 Adopted 07 21 09 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />View of hills from the Callippe Golf Course <br /> <br />The General Plan designates much of South Pleasanton as Public <br />Health and Safety with a Wildlands Overlay, resulting in no <br />development capacity other than one single-family home on an <br />existing private lot of record. These designations cover the steeper <br />slopes, higher elevations, areas subject to landslides and other hazards, <br />watershed lands, and valuable wildlife habitat and corridor areas. Land <br />Use in the Happy Valley area is discussed in detail in the Happy Valley <br />Specific Plan (see pages 22-25). The Callippe Preserve Golf Course is <br />located south of Happy Valley Road and is designated as Parks and <br />Recreation. The General Electric site is designated as General and <br />Limited Industrial. To the west of that facility along Little Valley <br />Road, an area of existing ranchettes is designated Rural Density <br />Residential. <br />Consideration should be given to preserving large open-space acreage <br />in South Pleasanton and in the Southeast Hills by a combination of <br />private open space and a public park system. Developer dedications, <br />bond measures, corporate and personal donations, as well as regional, <br />State, and federal funding programs, should be used to acquire trail <br />rights-of-way and land. Attempts to achieve public access to open- <br />space areas and trails should not create onerous impositions on <br />property owners. <br />Hill Areas <br />In November 2008, Pleasanton voters passed Measure PP which <br />adopts, and Measure QQ which reaffirms, specific policies in the <br />General Plan regarding hillside development restrictions. Measure PP <br />prohibits placing housing units or structures on slopes of 25 percent <br />or greater or within 100 vertical feet of a ridgeline, does not allow <br />grading to construct residential or commercial structures in those <br />same areas, and also bans subdividing a legal parcel for more than 10 <br />housing units, but exempts development of 10 or fewer housing units <br />from these restrictions. Measure QQ’s substantive hillside policies <br />involve the readoption and reaffirmation of existing policies and a <br />program for the 1996 General Plan to generally: (1) preserve hillside <br />and ridge views of the Pleasanton, Main, and Southeast Hills; (2) study <br />the feasibility of preserving large open-space areas in the Southeast <br />Hills; and (3) protect all large, contiguous areas of Open Space. <br />Vineyard Avenue Corridor <br />The 368-acre Vineyard Avenue Corridor is located in the southeastern <br />portion of Pleasanton, south of the Arroyo Del Valle and west of <br />Ruby Hill. Terrain is mostly flat north of Vineyard Avenue and <br />generally transitions to steep slopes on the south side. In this sparsely <br />developed area, vegetation consists mostly of oak woodlands and <br />grasslands. The Vineyard Avenue Specific Plan, adopted in 1999, <br />guides development in this area. In addition to homes, a park, and an <br />elementary school, the area is also planned to include a number of <br />“wine country” related commercial uses, such as wineries, wine-tasting <br />rooms, and bed-and-breakfast accommodations.