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Be <br /> <br />Although other potentially developable parcels exist, for a <br />variety of reasons these lands are not available for <br />development. For example, in the Happy Valley area in south <br />Pleasanton, there are a number of properties, owned by <br />separate owners, which could be considered for development. <br />The city, however, has routinely rejected proposals by <br />property owners in that area for annexation and development, <br />due to the opposition of the Happy Valley area residents. <br />As a result, non-contracted lands, such as Happy Valley, are <br />neither available nor suitable for annexation and <br />development at this time, in preference to the Garms <br />property. <br /> <br />Attached hereto is a list of various development projects <br />showing where they are in the development process and/or <br />showing the type of development contemplated by the <br />projects. This list demonstrates that other various <br />projects on non-contracted lands are either significantly <br />ahead, or significantly behind, the Garms property <br />development sequence, or are significantly different project <br />types. In all events, these lands are neither available nor <br />suitable for the use contemplated by the Garms property PUD. <br /> <br />Development of the contracted land would provide more <br />contiguous patterns of urban development than development of <br />proximate noncontracted land. <br /> <br />Pleasanton is 100% developed contiguous to the Garms parcel <br />to the east of Foothill Road. Contiguous to the Garms <br />parcel are five other properties, referred to as the <br />Presley, Moller, Hempy, Lemoine and Yee properties. All of <br />these properties (including Garms) front Foothill Road. Of <br />this group of six properties, the Garms property is the only <br />parcel subject to a Williamson Act contract. If development <br />of the Garms property must wait until the Williamson Act <br />Contract expires in 1994, all or most of the other <br />properties will have obtained approval for development, <br />which would result in noncontiguous development of 118 acres <br />in an otherwise orderly pattern of development. <br /> <br />Critical planning decisions, including the Foothill Road <br />alignment, the Foothill Road Corridor Study, the <br />consolidation of multiple Foothill Road driveways and <br />establishment of an appropriate water supply plan for the <br />contiguous group of properties, weigh in favor of the <br />development of the Garms property now, rather than after <br />1994. <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br /> <br />