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F-4 | City of Pleasanton Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Section F.2 Background F.2.1 Overview of City Growth and Development Pleasanton’s history of residential growth and development reflects the influence of many and varied geographic, historic, and socio-economic factor and trends over time. Before the permanent settlement of Europeans in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late eighteenth century, members of the Ohlone Native Californian group inhabited the vicinity of Pleasanton, particularly around the major Arroyos. According to the City’s General Plan, several direct ancestors of the Mukewma Ohlone tribe have been traced to Pleasanton and the Tri-Valley and tribal members continue to live in this area.2 After secularization of the Alta California missions in the early nineteenth century, the Mexican government granted most of the vicinity of Pleasanton, including the future town site, to members of the Bernal Family. With American annexation of California and the onset of the Gold Rush in the late 1840s, members of the Bernal family established permanent homes on their rancho and constructed adobe homes along the Arroyo del Valle. The Pleasanton area remained sparsely populated in the 1850s, but in the 1860s news of the impending arrival of a segment of the Transcontinental Railroad sparked the first efforts at organized town development and an increase in population. The Western (later Central/Southern) Pacific Railroad planned construction of a segment of the final railroad link between Sacramento and San Jose through Pleasanton beginning in the early 1860s. The arrival of the railroad sparked a commercial, agricultural, and residential boom in Pleasanton as the community gained greater access to the major regional urban markets of San Francisco and Oakland. Between the 1870s and World War II, Pleasanton became a major regional supplier of commodity crops like grain, livestock, and agricultural products. The abundance of agricultural jobs attracted thousands of temporary and migrant laborers each year, most of whom lived in temporary quarters on employers’ properties. Following incorporation in 1894, the City grew modestly through the first half of the 20th Century, but growth accelerated more rapidly during World War II as several military installations in the area brought service members and war workers to the region, demanding new housing construction. This brought a small boom in commercial and agricultural activity in Pleasanton, spurred by the needs of the war effort and the nearby presence of tens of thousands of American armed service members and war workers. The U.S. Navy constructed the Naval Construction Battalion Center in 1943 and later Camp Parks and Camp Shoemaker, just north of Pleasanton. Camp Shoemaker 2 Pleasanton General Plan 2005-2025, Page 7-17