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Pleasanton's physical evolution between 1850 and 1970 resulted in a small-town feeling with an outlying rural atmosphere. This is evidenced by the City's historic Downtown, older residential neighborhoods, Alameda County Fairgrounds, Happy Valley f;mTling areas, etc. Pleasanton residents cherish and desire to preserve and enhance this community character. High quality business park development during the 1980s and 1990s and suburban neighborhood development beginning in the 196C)'s and continuing today have also created character design elements which the City strives to keep in perpetuate hannony with its past. (I know, I am reading closely but I am looking for flow from sentence to sentence and paragraph to paragraph!!!) [J1]This wording can be substituted if desired, although I would delete "etc" from the original. 9. Page 10-2, last paragraph, do we really think the Livermore Golf Course and the Airport provide a maior separation between Pleasanton and Livermore??? They don't physically touch our city limits do they? Once Livermore develops on their side ofEI Charro, do we have a major separation? [J1] This sentence states that the quarry lands, golf course and airport "currently" provide a major separation. When both sides ofEI Charro Road are developed as planned this will no longer be the case, at least in terms of a visual separator as seen from 1-580. Policy 10 addresses the community separator issue but focuses on Stanley Boulevard where it is more likely that a visual separation can be maintained. 10. Page 10-3, last paragraph, if we know that we have limited walk ability of the city currently, what is our plan to change that? [JI] In this draft element it is addressed under Goal 6 (Program 17.3 and Program 19.1). It will also be addressed in the Circulation and Land Use elements. II. Page 10-4, Pleasanton residents are trying to preserve the community character by not building five story high density housing like Dublin. Do we define anywhere what the residents are seeking in new development to protect the community character that we love about our town? [JI] It is addressed in the Goals, Policies and Programs section of this Draft Element under Goal 2 related to the Downtown, and Goal 6 related to Commercial Areas and Residential Neighborhoods. Other specific policies and programs can be added if desired. 12. Page 10-5, is this where we should discuss the Alamo Canal under pass for the bicycle and pedestrian trail connecting Pleasanton to Dublin and beyond?? [J1]Yes. We can add the following sentence to the end of that paragraph. "The City of Pleasanton is working in cooperation with the East Bay Regional Park District, CalTrans, Zone 7 Water Agency and the City of Dublin to assess the feasibility andfinancingfor an under freeway link of the Alamo Canal Trail. " 13. Page 10-5 under sustainability. Should we discuss the goals of making the city more walk able, bike able, connecting the neighborhoods and open space with trails and bike lanes etc? [J1]The following bullet could be added to that section: "Trails, bike lanes and other links that connect neighborhoods, schools, and open space for walkers and bicyclists, and provide an alternative to auto travel. " 14. Where do we talk about maintaining a family oriented community which has been a major contributor to the community character?