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WHEREAS, <br /> <br />WIIEREAS , <br /> <br />~EREAS, <br /> <br />WHEREAS, <br /> <br />WHEREAS, <br /> <br />WHEREAS, <br /> <br />WHEREAS, <br /> <br />WHEREAS, <br /> <br />WHEREAS, <br /> <br />Goal 1 of the Growth Management Element is: "To <br />achieve and maintain a balance among land uses as <br />the city develops"; and <br /> <br />Policy 3 of the Growth Management Element is: "To <br />encourage the establishment of industries within <br />the planning area compatible with the environmental <br />constraints of the valley, particularly air quality, <br />and with the existing and future work force of <br />Pleasanton"; and <br /> <br />the Court has expressed a belief that the Growth <br />Management Element imposes a limit on the scope <br />of industrial and commercial development as it <br />relates to the number of workers in Pleasanton; and <br /> <br />no such limitation was ever intended by the Council <br />which adopted the Growth Management Element, <br />including the four members of the current City <br />Council who were members of the Council and Planning <br />Commission which adopted the Growth Management <br />Element; and <br /> <br />the growth that the Growth Management Element was <br />intended to regulate quantitatively was residential <br />growth, and it did this by establishin~ an express <br />policy (Policy 8) which regulates residential <br />growth to roughly two percent per year; and <br /> <br />there is no limitation of commercial and industrial <br />development expressed or intended by the Growth <br />Management Element except as to the quantity and <br />the location of land available for these purposes <br />and the density of commercial and industrial <br />development permitted by existing zoning categories; <br />and <br /> <br />the Residential Allocation Program was considered <br />contemporaneously with the Growth Management Element <br />in public hearings in late 1977 and early 1978; and <br /> <br />the Residential Allocation Program is an ordinance <br />that was introduced on March 6, 1978, at the same <br />meeting in which the Growth Management Element was <br />adopted, and the Residential Allocation Program <br />was given its second reading and enacted one week <br />later on March 13, 1978; and <br /> <br />the Growth Management Element was created in order <br />to provide a legal basis for the adoption of the <br />Residential Allocation Program which was the <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br /> <br />