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Draft 14. Subregional Planning Element numerous stationary sources of air pollutants that emit toxic air contaminants. (See the Local and Regional Meteorological Influences, the Recent Air Quality Conditions. and the Hazardous Pollutant sections of the Air Quality Element fox further discussion of these issues.) In addition to air pollution. several types of land use frequently result in odor-causing operations. dust or other nuisances. Within the Tri Valley, these operations taenerally include: sand-and-gravel 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 Vallev. 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. ~tThe 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 annum ,; it will still be higher than that projected for the Bay Area as a whole (1.6 percent annually) ~ ABAG projects an increase in Tri-Valley area jobs of about $3-48 percent between 4992005 and 2802025, from 44980183,600 to on~271 340? A recent report ~onsoxed by the Tri-Valley Business Council that looked at the Tri-Valley's economy concluded that the region has evolved into a hieh_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 oreanization jurisdiction or sector: "A new level of responsibilt~ 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 " Association of Bay Area Governments ~ABAG~. ABAG Pro~ectionr 2005 ~ ABAG Pro~ection.r 2005 ~° Wellrpnng for Entrepreneurrhifi and Innovation: The Changing Economic Rok and Reiponribi/itier of the Tii-Valley Region; prepared by Collaborative Economics for the Tri-Valley Business Council, July 2005, for the Preserving Prosperity Pxoj~. Subregional Planning 060507, redline ~E1114-13 City Council 6/5/2007