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i 1 1 1 1 1 III. LAND USE A. Existing Ownership The 124 acre Staples Ranch property consists of two legal parcels, both owned by the ACSPA. A 1.5 acre parcel, located directly adjacent to the existing residences along Vermont Place in Pleasanton, is within the existing city limits of Pleasanton. The larger approximately 122.5 acre parcel is within unincorporated Alameda County and would require annexation prior to Pleasanton's processing of a final map /issuing building permits for development. Adjacent right of way would also be annexed into Pleasanton, including the Arroyo Mocho channel from the current city limits east to El Charro Road, the El Charro Road right of way up to the City of Livermore limits, and the I -580 right of way up to the City of Dublin city limits to the north, and the El Charro Road interchange to the east. The Arroyo Mocho channel is owned by Zone 7, and consists of several legal parcels. The El Charro Road right of way consists of a 20 foot wide parcel containing the existing roadway, which is owned by Vulcan Materials, with unimproved Alameda County road right of way on either side, for a total right of way width of approximately 150 feet. B. Physical Setting Staples Ranch is currently vacant and is characterized primarily as grassland. As a means of controlling vegetation to reduce fire risk, the ACSPA permits a local farmer to use the property for dry land hay production, which entails discing the property in early spring and seeding it with oats and barley, which is then harvested in the early summer. In 2001, Alameda County removed several dilapidated old ranch buildings, and a fann house as part of a general clean up of the property. Mature trees are largely limited to a grove of omamental and fruit trees associated with the farm house site and to a landscape berm along the northwestern edge of the property that was planted in the early 1990s as part of the California Somerset development to the west. The Staples Ranch property is predominantly flat, with a gradual slope to the southwest. El Charro Road, with an elevation of approximately 360 feet, is the high point, with the lowest elevations of approximately 347 feet found both at the northwest and southwest corners of the property. The only significant "topography" is from four large stockpiled soil mounds containing a total of about 300,000 cubic yards of material. The mound located in the southwestern corner of the property was material excavated by Zone 7 in the early 1990s as part of downstream improvements to the Arroyo Mocho channel. Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment/Staples Ranch Draft October, 2008 11