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Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: .- BACKGROUND In the early 1990's, the City annexed a number of parcels along the Vineyard Avenue Corridor in order to annex the Ruby Hill subdivision property. Among the parcels annexed was a 30-acre parcel owned by Lonestar Industries. On June I, 1999, the City adopted the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan to serve as the primary land use and infrastructure regulatory guide for development of the 384-acre Vineyard Corridor area located along Vineyard Avenue in southeast Pleasanton. One of the key elements of the Plan was the realignment of Vineyard Avenue along the Arroyo del Valle. This realignment provides safety benefits, including the elimination of numerous driveway/roadway intersections. The realignment also provides a scenic amenity for motorists by providing views of the Arroyo del Valle on the north side and vineyards on the south side. Former Vineyard Avenue was intended to become a multi-use trail, closed to through-vehicular traffic, for use by pedestrians, bicyclists, equestrians, emergency vehicles, and utility maintenance vehicles. Originally, the first developers to develop in the Corridor were to construct the realigned road. Normally, a property owner is not required to dedicate land for right of way purposes until the property owner is ready to build (the dedication usually occurs in the 987context of the recorded final map). Because the City wanted to be certain that the entire right of way for the realigned Vineyard A venue would be dedicated when it was time to build the road, the City entered into development agreements with the various property owners whose properties would front the realigned road. Essentially, all agreed to dedicate the land necessary for the right of way ahead of development. One such property owner was Lonestar. By reason of the dedication, the 30 acre Lonestar parcel was split in two, with the northern portion containing 6.5 acres and the southern portion containing about 21.5 acres. (The other two acres is the road itself.) In the Specific Plan, the Lonestar parcel north of the realigned Vineyard Avenue is designated "Vineyard" on the land use map but the text provides that land could be mined as a part of Lonestar's quarrying operation. Moreover, Lonestar and the City agreed (in a development agreement) that the Lonestar property lying to the north of the realigned road would be detached from the City and restored to its status as unincorporated territory. The realigned Vineyard Avenue is now complete and is currently in use. Portions of the road right of way on the north (about six acres total) however, are still in the unincorporated area of the County. Moreover, a small portion of land (about 0.182 acres), dedicated to the City as right of way, is located northerly of the established right of way line for Vineyard Avenue and is SR:05:292 Page 2 of 5 -.^"...---- .