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persons living within the City limits. An additional 1,500 persons lived in unincorporated places' (e.g. Castlewood, Happy Valley) within the Planning Area. In the future, assuming the average Growth Management allocation of 500 units per year is built, Pleasanton could add approximately 2,500 units over the next five years resulting in a population of about 62,000 by the year 1995 (see Figure IV-i). Buildout of all residential land within the Planning Area is projected to occur about the year 2007 at which time the City will support a population of about 78,000. The City's growth estimates are somewhat less than the Association of Bay Area Governments' (ABAG) projections (3) for Pleasanton which forecast a population of 66,400 by the year 1995 and 80,500 by the year 2005. ABAG's projections include extensive documentation of fertility and survival rates, net migration and other demographic components of future population growth. Pleasanton's actual growth will depend on a number of factors, such as interest rates and employment growth, but will likely be somewhere between the two growth rates, provided that infrastructure constraints, especially sewage capacity, can be overcome. A comparison of residential growth projections are shown in Figure IV-1. At buildout of the General Plan, the Pleasanton Planning Area is projected to contain about 28,600 housing units representing a population of about 78,000 persons. The distribution of existing and future housing units by neighborhood is shown in Figure IV-4). This assumes that all residential land within the 27,000 acre existing Planning Area is built at average densities (see Table II-4 in the Land Use Element). Construction of housing at greater or less than these average densities would change this holding capacity as would the redesignation of additional land to residential uses. Potential sites for rezoning to residential use are shown in Table IV-15. Rate of Growth The growth of Pleasanton's housing stock has fluctuated greatly over the course of the City's development, as shown in Table IV-1. The construction of several thousand housing units during the early 1970's led to an overburdened sewage treatment system and a major slowdown of housing growth during the late 1970's. These wide fluctuations resulted in the City adopting a Growth Management Program in 1978 which controlled the City's residential growth rate according to sewage capacity and air quality constraints. Since the Growth Management Program was adopted, the City has made substantial progress in reducing these constraints and has modified its Growth Management procedures accordingly. The City has maintained its Growth Management Program in order to phase residential growth according to the availability of infrastructure, especially roadways and sewage capacity, and to manage the supply of buildable residential sites to meet continued future demand. IV-2