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BACKGROUND The Kolb family has historic roots in both the cities of Pleasanton and Dublin dating back to the 1880's. Phillip Kolb was a major business and community leader in Pleasanton at that time, and around 1904, Phillip's brother, George Kolb, established the family farm on 350 acres on Dublin Canyon Road. The property included land which overlapped what is now the two cities, before construction of Highway 50 and later I-580. More recently, the portion of the Kolb property within Pleasanton received PUD development plan approval fora 12-lot single family residential development on the south side of Dublin Canyon Road, adjacent to the Preserve development. As part of that PUD, a 5.2 acre site adjacent to Dublin Canyon Road containing the structures remaining from Kolb Ranch was conceptually approved for a future senior care facility. The existing structures were not required to be retained, and a separate PUD development plan would need to be approved before the senior care facility could be built. DISCUSSION The City of Dublin is establishing the Dublin Historic Park on property located at Dublin Boulevard and Donlon Way, the site of the former Dublin Square Shopping Center. This project was defined in the Dublin Historic Park Master Plan, adopted by the Dublin City Council in 2006-2007. A proposed addendum to the Master Plan (attached) calls for relocating structures from the Kolb Ranch in Pleasanton to the Historic Park in Dublin, once the site of old Dublin Village. A study prepared for the City of Dublin by Kelley & VerPlanck Historical Resources Consulting found that "there is a significant interpretative benefit to relocating at least three of the Kolb Ranch structures because they will create an 'ensemble' that reproduces the historic relationships among buildings that characterized the home ranch of rural California." At its meeting of March 4, 2008, the Dublin City Council chose to relocate five of the ranch buildings to its historic park: two residences, two barns, a pumphouse, and potentially other small structures would be moved onto the park. The concept of relocating buildings from the Pleasanton Kolb property to Dublin's Historic Park was discussed at the City of Pleasanton -City of Dublin Liaison Committee meeting of March 5, 2008. Mayor Lockhart and Dublin staff discussed the concept with Council members Thorne and Cook-Kallio and Pleasanton staff, including the process for relocating the buildings. The Pleasanton Council members present were supportive of the idea. Staff sees no issues in allowing Dublin to relocate the buildings. The buildings were not required to be retained as part of the Kolb PUD development plan, and the buildings are not on Pleasanton's list of historic structures. From that perspective, the City of Dublin would address historic preservation issues through its environmental document; it is likely that the mitigation for any historic impact associated with moving the buildings would be that they would be part of Dublin's historic park on land contiguous to the original Kolb Ranch, that the ranch buildings would enhance other historic buildings located in the historic Donlon Way area, and that the buildings would be restored for the Page 2 of 3