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Page 1 of 8 Item #3 CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT March 19, 2024 Community Development TITLE: CONTINUED FROM FEBRUARY 20, 2024 - RECEIVE INFORMATION AND APPROVE RECOMMENDATION THAT A PARCEL ON WEST JACK LONDON BOULEVARD IN UNINCORPORATED ALAMEDA COUNTY BE MOVED INTO THE CITY OF LIVERMORE SPHERE OF INFLUENCE, AND THAT PARCEL AND ANOTHER PARCEL ON EAST STANLEY BOULEVARD BOTH BE ANNEXED BY THE CITY OF LIVERMORE SUMMARY Three sites, known as SMP-38, SMP-39 and SMP-40, are vacant former quarry sites located in unincorporated Alameda County, located south of West Jack London Boulevard between El Charro Road and Isabel Avenue, and between the city limits of Pleasanton and Livermore. SMP-38 and SMP-39 are located within the City of Pleasanton’s Sphere of Influence (SOI) while SMP-40 is located within Livermore’s SOI. In September 2021, the City of Livermore received applications for the annexation and development of SMP-39 and SMP-40 with commercial/light industrial uses, and an associated request to amend the respective SOIs for SMP-38 and SMP-39 such that all three sites would be within Livermore’s SOI, to allow for their annexation into Livermore. (Since initial receipt of the application, at Pleasanton’s request, the application has been amended to no longer include a SOI adjustment for SMP-38, which lies closest to Pleasanton.) Livermore will be holding public hearings with its Planning Commission and City Council in February and March 2024 to consider approval of the proposed development. Livermore’s approvals would allow the SOI adjustment and annexation requests for SMP-39 and SMP-40 to be forwarded to the Alameda County Local Area Formation Commission (LAFCO), the body charged with approval of interjurisdictional boundary changes. Livermore has requested the Pleasanton City Council consider a positive recommendation to LAFCO for support of the SOI amendment and annexation of SMP-39 and SMP-40 to Livermore. Livermore staff has been in close communication with Pleasanton staff throughout the application process, and has provided City staff several opportunities to review and provide comments on the proposed development and its associated CEQA document. Pleasanton staff has found no significant issues with the proposal that would negatively affect Pleasanton. Based on SMP-39 and SMP-40’s adjacency to existing Livermore development, proposed industrial use and traffic improvements that address Pleasanton circulation concerns, staff is recommending the City Council support Livermore’s proposed SOI amendments and annexation request. RECOMMENDATION Receive information and consider the recommendation that the vacant parcel known as SMP- 39 in unincorporated Alameda County be removed into the SOI of Livermore and that SMP-39, Page 16 of 228