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Draft 2.0 Land Use Element <br />If all commercial, office, industrial, and other employment-generating land were built out, Pleasanton <br />would contain approximately 32.5 million square feet of building floor area, enough to support about <br />88,000 jobs. 'T'his holding capacity estimate assumes that employment generating uses are built at <br />average densities (Table 2-3, above), vacancy rates average seven percent, and employment densities <br />will approximate current levels (Table 2-4, below). ABAG Pmjection.c 2007 estimates a somewhat lower <br />number of jobs with 76,020 in 2025 and 81,270 jobs in 2035. <br />TABLE 2-4: EMPLOYEE DENSITY STANDARDS <br />These numbers will be updated Average Square Foot <br />Workplace Type Per Employee <br />OfFice 260 <br />Research & Development 360 <br />Light Manufacturing 590 <br />Warehouse/Service Industrial 590 <br />Service Commercial 490 <br />Retail 510 <br />Restaurant 170 <br />Hotel/Motel 1,060 <br />Source: Gruen Gruen + Associates, Employment Densities by Type of Workplace, July 1985. <br />Table 2-5, below, summarizes the number of acres of each land use designated within the Pleasanton <br />Planning Area. <br />The Relationship of Jobs and Housing <br />The relationship between jobs and housing is a complex topic which affects all communities, especially <br />those, like Pleasanton, within large metropolitan areas. Workers choose jobs and residential locations <br />based on a variety of personal, financial, and locational factors. Workers often make a trade between <br />housing cost and length of commute with some choosing to undertake a longer commute for more <br />affordable housing and others paying a higher housing cost for a shorter commute. Therefore, a <br />certain percentage of workers will choose to live and work within the same community, such as <br />Pleasanton, a certain percentage within the same commute area, such as the Tri-Valley, and a certain <br />percentage will choose to live great distances away from their places of employment. The essence of <br />the jobs/housing issue is to recognize these different types of commute behaviors, to provide <br />adequate housing opportunities within the commute area desired by each group of workers, and to <br />provide a variety of employment opportunities for residents. <br />Planning to accommodate this diversity of commute patterns involves identifying and providing for <br />employment-generated housing needs on three geographic levels -the community, the commute area, <br />LU element 082107 clean 2-1 7 <br />