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Key issues and opportunities related to this site were detailed in General Plan Update Memo #3: Land Use - East Side, dated April 22, 2004. Summarized, these include: . The direction provided by the 1996 General Plan which notes the quarry lands create a valuable urban separator between Pleasanton and Livermore, and should be substantially protected. Agriculture, recreation, water management and open space should become its primary uses as opposed to residential. . Appropriateness of the Urban Growth Boundary which currently runs along EI Charro Road. The easterly portions of Hanson parcels Band D and all of parcel C lie outside the City' Urban Growth Boundary. The 1996 voter initiative and the General Plan, however, foresaw the need to re-evaluate the land use designation at the time sand and gravel harvesting operations ceased, and provides for minor adjustments of the Urban Growth Boundary line. . Airport Protection Area limitations. . Noise and land use compatibility issues along the railroad lines and between any remaining industrial uses and the park and residential uses. . Circulation issues related to EI Charro Road: will it terminate at Busch Road or extend to Stanley Boulevard (as assumed in the "working draft" circulation network)? Developers of the properties adjacent to EI Charro Road would normally finance street improvements but there is a question as to who will finance an expensive grade separation between the road and railroad and provide a connection to Stanley Boulevard. . Unique opportunities to develop land uses overlooking lakes/wetland areas. . Potential integration of future uses with Zone 7' s proposed Stream Management Master Plan, which proposes flood control, water supply, habitat and environmental improvements, and trails, recreation, and public education, around a "chain oflakes" in the former quarries area. . Compatibility of future uses with the City's Operations Services Center (including fire training tower and pistol range) and Busch Property future uses (school or senior housing). The City's economic development consultant, Bay Area Economics (BAE), prepared a brief memo (Attachment 4) related to the re-use of the Hanson and Kiewit sites. The memo notes the unique opportunity presented by the size of this site, probably the largest close-in development site in the Tri-Valley, and concludes that future potential uses include industrial/office flex, corporate/R&D campus, educational campus, and other commercial retail and service uses (particularly on the Kiewit property, adjacent to Valley Avenue). Hanson has submitted two options for land use changes, both of which include residential development (see Attachment 5:Table 1, and Attachment 6). Option 1, Mixed Use Retail/Commercial/Industrial includes: SR 06:039 Page 3 of7