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