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Pleasanton to about a two percent growth in population per year for the next twenty years. In addition to the above, efforts to improve other facilities have also been made. Park development has proceeded at a sloca rate as has street, storm drainage, and water improvements. The city has attempted to augment its own funds through grants for many needed improvements and will continue to do so. Infrastructure improvements will continue in the future, as planned in the capital improvement schedule, in an attempt to catch up to the level of service needed by Pleasanton's current residents and to keep pace with new growth. While the city is struggling to upgrade its services to a level com- mensurate with the need of its residents, developers are poised for a new phase of rapid residential development once sewage capacity becomes available. Pleasanton can no more accommodate such growth now than it could in the late 1960's. Rapid growth would exacerbate the problems of inadequate parks and street systems. It would increase the air quality problem and reduce the possibility of achieving federal air quality standards in this century. It could again be inappro- priately located vis a vis other development, adversely affecting agricultural uses and inefficiently extending facilities to serve it, possibly necessitating major, costly capital improvements unnecessary for a more rational, logical growth pattern. It could also interfere with the growth of commercial and industrial enterprises in Pleasanton which are necessary to create a balanced community and to reduce the adverse environmental consequences of the commuter pattern presently existing and which, of necessity, would continue with rapid resi- dential growth. In order to avoid .the consequences of past rapid development while accommodating new growth and continuing to improve present services, Pleasanton has adopted a series of goals and policies relevant to new development cahich, when implemented, should help alleviate the avoidable consequences of the past rapid develop- ment. These goals and policy statements form the heart of this "Growth Management Element." This element contains the goals and policies relevant to new develop- ment. It contains the city's basic stance with respect to balanced community growth and the location of new development in the twenty year period ending in 1996 and at the ultimate development of the planning area. It also presents the city's position relative to the residential growth rate, the type and location of new residential development, and the environmental and socio-economic consequences of new residential development. Earh of the following sections summarizes the particular issues relevant to that topic, examines solutions to possible problems, and concludes with the city°s policy with respect to that topic. Taken together, the goals and policies are designed to foster rational, efficient development which will hasten solutions to the problems associated with development rather than exacerbate these problems. -3-