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Changes to the Draft Land Use Element The proposed changes to the background text of the Draft Land Use Element are indicated in the red-line version in Attachment 2. These changes include: • General editing, updating, and reorganizing of background material from the 1996 General Plan. • Adding a paragraph on how the concept of sustainability relates to land use. • Updating Existing Conditions sections dealing with Residential Neighborhoods; Industrial, Commercial and Office Development; Community Facilities; and Open Space areas. Some portions of the Community Facilities and Open Space sections are removed because a more detailed discussion is found in the Draft Public Facilities and Community Programs Element and the Draft Conservation and Open Space Element. • Under Areas of Special Interest, sections on the Pleasanton Ridgelands, South Pleasanton, the Vineyard Avenue Corridor, Downtown, Staples Ranch, East Pleasanton, and Hacienda Business Park have been updated or added. • Anew section describing existing and future Specific Plans has been added. • Several subjects have been grouped under the heading of Growth Management: the City's Urban Growth Boundary; the Residential Cap; the Growth Management Program; Holding Capacity; the Relationship of Jobs and Housing; and Annexation. • Anew Land Use Concepts section is added which describes smart growth, mixed use, and transit oriented development and how those concepts are woven into the Draft Land Use Element. • The General Plan Land Uses section has been updated, and several paragraphs on p. 2-22 were moved to the policy section of the document. A Low Density Residential designation applicable to the Happy Valley area was added. Other paragraphs which repeated information about build-out of commercial properties were deleted. A description of Mixed Use was added. A description of Business Park uses was added, and a new Water Management and Recreation designation was added under the Open Space category. The following proposed changes to the Goals, Policies, and Programs in the Draft Land Use Element are shown in Attachment 1 and Attachment 2: Deleting the "to" at the beginning of all goals within this Element. Adding Policies 1 and 2 along with related programs to allow development consistent with the General Plan Land Use Map and to evaluate land use changes as they relate to overall city welfare. The latter policy and Program 2.1 is the result of a Planning Commission discussion at the time the Draft Community Character Element of the General Plan was being reviewed. Program 2.2, which specifically mentions the impacts of Livermore Municipal Airport noise, was added by the Planning Commission. Page 8 of 10