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Draft LAND-USE CONCEPTS 2.0 Land Use Element As a result of pas~lanning efforts, Pleasanton today is a community with attractive and well-kept neighborhoods, abundant and well-maintained Public facilities, a thriving economy, and a high dui of life for its residents. Providing a range of housing_choices and managing traffic congestion have been major challenges in the Past and will continue into the fixture. This General Plan seeks to maintain and enhance the community's high duality of life and to incorporate innovative "smart growth" Planning strategies such as mixed-use and transit-oriented development ~`I'OD) to address challenges such as housing choice and traffic congestion, and to further the goal of creating a more sustainable and energy efficient city. Smart Growth Policies that integrate transportation and land-use decisions by encouragins? more compact, mixed-use development within existing_ urban areas and that discourage dispersed, automobile-dependent development at the urban fringe make up the concept of "smart growth." Amain concept of smart growth is the decentralization of services so that~eople may access local services -retail, service industry, schools, recreation etc. -through alternative modes of travel - i.e., walking, bicycling, and taking the bus As a result, a land use pattern is established that is more fine-grained where public facilities, retail, and other commercial services are generally local, relatively small. and distributed throughout neighborhoods. Streets are designed to accommodate non-automobile traffic and are safer and slower than streets designed mainly to move automobile traffic or to transport people to larger, centralized services and businesses. Throughout its elements, this General Plan recognizes the importance of smart growth and incorporates its concepts -whenever reasonable and feasible - to help Pleasanton become more sustainable At the same time this General Plan acknowledges the importance of locating key services and businesses - e ga Stoneridge Mall, Hacienda Business Park, and Pleasanton's two high schools - along major arterial streets and highways. However, the City coordinates with transit agencies to Provide transit to major services and businesses, which is also consistent with smart growth. Pleasanton has also instituted an Urban Growth Boundary that prohibits development beyond the urban fringe. (See discussion above, in the Growth Management section.l Mixed Use Mixed-use development is the combination of various land uses, such as office, commercial, institutional and residential in a single building or on a single site. Mixed-use development, a concept that has existed informally for many years in downtown areas (including Pleasanton), has gained new life as a way to Provide additional housing close to jobs, services, and transit (including buses): to create vitality in downtown areas• as a way to create land-efficient development in-fill areas: and to reduce the number ofauto-related trips, compared to conventional development. LU element 082107 redline 2-21