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II. BACKGROUND The 124 acre Staples Ranch property is owned by the Alameda County Surplus Property Authority (ACSPA). Most of the vacant property is in unincorporated Alameda County, but is within Pleasanton's Sphere of Influence and Urban Growth Boundary and is designated for development with a mix of land uses in both the County and the City General Plans, as well as in the Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan. The property is bounded on the north by I -580 and the City of Dublin, on the east by El Charro Road and the City of Livermore, and on the south by the Arroyo Mocho channel and unimproved quarry lands. On the west, the Staples Ranch property is adjacent to the California Somerset single family neighborhood within the City of Pleasanton. The location of Staples Ranch is shown in Figure II -1. A. Status of the 1989 Stoneridee Drive Specific Plan The Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan was adopted by the City of Pleasanton in October 1989. The Specific Plan encompassed 293 acres in and adjacent to the northeastern portion of the City of Pleasanton, and provided for a mix of residential, retail, commercial, and light industrial development, as well as several neighborhood parks, an elementary school, a church site, and a community park. It also included extensive infrastructure improvements required to serve the Plan Area and the City, including the proposed extension of Stoneridge Drive from Kamp Drive near Santa Rita Road east to El Charro Road as a four lane arterial (with adequate right of way preserved for a future six lane divided arterial if demand required expansion of the arterial to meet City standards), the realignment of the Arroyo Las Positas and widening of the Arroyo Mocho to accommodate flood flows, and the improvement of El Charro Road from a two lane private quarry access road to a four to six lane arterial road, with truck tunnels separating quarry traffic from other vehicles at the planned intersection of Stoneridge Drive and El Charro Road. Since 1989, all but approximately 122.5 acres of the Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan area has been annexed to Pleasanton and developed, including all areas south of the Arroyo Mocho channel, and Stoneridge Drive has been extended to Trevor Parkway as a four lane arterial. Approximately 32 acres of the original 156 acre Staples Ranch property was annexed and developed in the early 1990s as part of the California Somerset residential development, including the expansion of the Meadows neighborhood park and the completion of West Las Positas Boulevard. The only remaining undeveloped portion of the original 293 acre Specific Plan area is the 124 acre Staples Ranch site, which is designated in the 1989 Specific Plan for a mix of uses, including 17.2 acres of Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment/Staples Ranch Draft October, 2008 4 f