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Draft 14. Subregional Planning Element harvesting areas -including asphalt plants -along Stanley Boulevard, sewage treatment plants and solid waste transfer stations in both Livermore and Pleasanton, as well as some agricultural operations in the Tri Valley. Economic Development In the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1980s, there has been a rapid decentralization of employment away from traditional job centers to outlying locations, including the Tri Valley. This shift in growth has occurred in other metropolitan areas as well, with an emerging new urban form in which suburban edge cities have replaced the suburban bedroom communities which formerly surrounded the traditional central core. The Tri-Valley area changed from a bedroom community in the 1970s to a regional employment center during the rapid employment growth of the 1980s and 1990s. Between 1980 and 1990, the area gained more than 19,000 jobs alone from the construction of the Bishop Ranch and Hacienda Business Parks. The rate of job growth for the Tri-Valley area for 2005-2015 is expected to be about the same as the 1990s at four percent annually; it will still be higher than that projected for the Bay Area as a whole (1.6 percent annually).s ABAG projects an increase in Tri-Valley area jobs of about 48 percent between 2005 and 2025, from 183,600 to 271,340.E A recent report sponsored by the Tri-Valley Business Council that looked at the Tri-Valley's economy concluded that the region has evolved into ahigh-quality, innovative economy, which requires access to highly-educated talent, a constant flow of ideas and resources for business creation and innovation, and a superb quality of life. 10 The report makes the case that sustaining this economy in the future is beyond the scope of any individual organization, jurisdiction or sector: "A new level of responsibility does not equate to a higher level of local government funding of more programs during a time of fiscal distress; rather it means a new level of regional collaboration among existing government leaders (including local economic development directors), private sector leaders (including the Tri-Valley Business Council) and other community leaders (including education) - with all parties focused on the talent, entrepreneurial business support, and quality of life necessary to sustain the region's innovation-based economy." The report further concludes: "To succeed as a region whose comparative advantage is entrepreneurship and innovation s Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), ABAG Projections 2005 ~ ABAG Projections 2005 ~° We/lrpnng for Entref~mueurrhip and Innovation: The Changing Economic Role and I{erponsibilitier of the Tri-Valley Legion; prepared by Collaborative Economics for the Tri-Valley Business Council, July 2005, for the Preserving Prosperity Project. Subregional %onning 060507, clean 14-13 City Council 6/5/2007