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Draft 2.0 Land Use Element The Ridgelands area consists of ridges and valleys which separate the Tri=Valley are~r-from Castro Valley, ~ Hayward, San Leandro, Union City, and Fremont It provides the primary western visual backdrop for Pleasanton and joins the more westerly ridges in establishing the topographic edge to Hayward and Castro Valley. This predominantly undeveloped land further provides are scenic open space amenity of regional significance which includes regional parkland, aericultural land, and valuable wildlife habitat. Steeply sloping, heavily forested eastern and northern faces of the Pleasanton, Sunol, and Main Ridges, alas well as broad grassland grazing areas along ridge tops and southern and western slopes, characterize the area. iris In November of 1993, Pleasanton voters apbroved Measure F, which directly relates to the Ridgelands. The intent of the Measure is to preserve the remaining agricultural open space and designate the Ridgelands as Park and Recreation (for publicly-owned land) and Agriculture (for privately-owned land). In those areas designated Agriculture, certain uses which would be incompatible with the existing visual quality are not allowed. Refer to Programs 16.1 and 17.1, below, in the Goals, Policies, and Programs section, for further information about Measure F. South Pleasanton Rolling to-and steeply sloping hills used predominantly as grazing and watershed land; with low=density residential uses in the flatter Happy Valley Area characterize South Pleasanton. The General Electric Vallecitos Nuclear Research Center dominates the largely undeveloped Vallecitos Valley area north of State Route 84, while the San Antonio Reservoir watershed area, owned by the City and County of San Francisco, covers much of the area south of State Route 84. The General Plan designates much of South Pleasanton as Public Health and Safety; a~with a Wildlands C-verlay, resulting in wino development capacity other than one a-single-family home on an existing private lots of record. These designations cover the steeper slopes, higher elevations, areas subject to landslides and other hazards, watershed lands, and valuable wildlife habitat and corridor areas. TLand Use in the Happy Valley area is discussed in detail in the Happy Valley Specific Plan (see paees_~22-25). 3~1e-f:e-~;~~rxirr.--The #~Callip~e Preserve Golf Course xre~is located south of Happy Valley Road and is designated i:~-~Eesigna~ed as Parks and Recreation T'he General Electric site is designated as General and Limited Industrial, and to the west of that facility LU element 082107 redline 2-7