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Draft 14. Subregional Planning Element Programs to reduce the supply of waste and to recycle materials axe increasingly important to reduce the need to expand landfills. See the Solid Waste discussion in the Public Facilities and Community Programs Element. Open Space, Recreation, and Trails Non-urbanized land uses in the Tri Valley include agriculture (mostly grazing, with some irrigated cultivation), publicly owned regional parks and watershed lands, and special natural resource land uses such as sand=and=gravel quarries and windfarms. Other open_space areas of Subregional importance include environmentally sensitive lands, such as critical habitat and scenic viewsheds, and lands constrained by potentially hazardous conditions such as steep topography, landslides, and flooding and earthquake fault zones. The East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) owns and/ox manages 34,886 acres in the Tri-Valley area, including the Ohlone and Sunol wilderness areas, Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, and Shadow Cliffs Recreation Area. The San Francisco Water Department owns additional watershed land, some of which overlaps with the Ohlone and Stmol wilderness areas south of Pleasanton. The Tri-Vallev contains ~e-is-a total of approximately 56,000 acres of regional scale open space and watershed lands~tr A regional trail system currently connects some of the Tri-Valley park and open space areas. Beth tThe East Bay Regional Park District tr~D~~ Master Plan 1997 and the 2001 City of Livermore Bikezvavr and Trail Master Plan the 2006 Zone 7 St~zam Management Master Plana and City of Pleasanton Community Trailr Master Plan. updated in 2002 " n -° °~-' "°°'- r~:..~w... ' om n°-w_~°' ~r....n 11A1 11A11 Plarrpropose additional connecting trails to complete the Tri-Valle trail -system. The "Iron Horse" trail, a former railroad right-of--way extending north/south through the area is an important subxegional bicycle and~edestrian trail, Local policy provides that the trail through the San Ramon Valley-it is to be used fox non-motorized transit. In 2007,_the City Council approved a temporarytrail aligmnent for the remaining undeveloped portion of the Iron Horse Trail This alignment extends from Santa Rita Road and West Las Positas Boulevard northwest to the Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station• the East Bay Regional Parks District must now review this proposed alignment. C -- i- 7 LT - T '1 71 1-1: i So'a`ai a'oixiTtxic ziiiliv ~°`~°' -~ A v a L 7 ,.~ ....,. ... r2 _.....,.1 As part of a settlement of litigation over the expansion of the Altamont Landfill, the parties to the litigation (Alameda County, Waste Management of Alameda County and the cities of Pleasanton and ~ Zone 7, Stream Management Master Plan, Draft, March 2006. This plans a number of trail-gap connections, by-pass trails, and trail crossings. Subregional Planning 060507, redline ~E1114-10 City Council 6/5/2007