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To facilitate access to the demineralization facility, Zone 7 has proposed two driveways, both of which are located on the north curb line of Stoneridge Drive. Both driveways will allow right turns in and right turn out traffic movements only. The most easterly driveway is located on a portion of Zone Ts property that fronts directly on Stoneridge Drive. The most westerly driveway would have to cross the above-mentioned Parcel B that the City purchased from Prudential to have access to Stoneridge Drive. Consequently, Zone 7 is asking the City to grant an access easement for the new driveway over Parcel B for the benefit of ingress and egress to the wellhead demineralization facility. Staff has examined this request to determine if there was any detriment to encumber Parcel B with this easement. Since Parcel B is a thin triangular shaped parcel only 55 feet wide and 175 feet long, there is little if any potential for future development of this property by the City. Therefore, staff recommends that the access easement be granted to Zone 7 over Parcel B. Additionally, Zone 7 is asking the City to grant a pipeline easement across Parcel A to facilitate the transmission of well water from its two well sites on the east side of Santa Rita Road to the demineralization facility. Staff has reviewed the proposed pipeline easement in conjunction with the future expansion of Sutter Gate Park. Since a good portion of the pipeline falls within the existing driveway entrance from Stoneridge Drive to Mocho Well 3, staff recommends that the pipeline easement be granted to Zone 7 over Parcel A. In exchange for the City granting these two easements, Zone 7 has agreed to provide for some additional landscaping (per a plan to be prepared by Zone 7 and approved by City staff) along portions of the perimeter of the Parcel A site where sparse or no landscaping presently exists. This landscaping was tentatively agreed to be placed after Zone 7 completed its Mocho 3 facility on the site, but was omitted at the last minute due to the City's plans to proceed immediately following the well facility construction with the expansion of Sutter Gate Park. Since the park expansion may be some years in the future, Zone 7 management and elected officials agreed, at a City of Pleasanton/Zone 7 Liaison Committee meeting held October 13, 2006, to landscape the Mocho Well No. 3 site to a mutually agreeable level as soon as landscape plans are developed and a contractor obtained. SR 06:167 Page 3 of 4