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15. Letter from Al LaVerne Spotorno 15.1 The Tri-Valley Business Council's Working Landscape Plan is briefly described on p.14 -14 and 14 -15 of the Draft Subregional Planning Element. Although the Vision 2010 work is not discussed extensively, the General Plan incorporates Goals, Policies, and Programs to encourage the continuation of agricultural uses in several areas, including a goal, policies and programs addressing agriculture and grazing starting on p. 7 -39 of the Draft Open Space and Conservation Element, and Policy 12 and associated programs (p.14 -23) of the Draft Subregional Planning Element. 15.2 The reference in the comment to "the open space issue" is not clear. Policy 19 of the Land Use Element does address open space and provides that designated open -space areas are to be preserved for the protection of public health and safety, to provide recreational opportunities, agriculture and grazing, for natural resources, to preserve wildlands, to manage water, and to separate Pleasanton physically from its neighboring communities. Program 19.1 then provides ways to implement that Policy, including the dedication of open space when property develops. Such dedication, however, is not specifically to maintain wildlife, although that may be a consequence in some instances. Predators are found where there is livestock and it seems unlikely there is anything the City can reasonably do to resolve what the commenter perceives as a conflict. 15.3 The City adopted a Right to Farm Ordinance in 1994 [Chapter 17.48, Pleasanton Municipal Code], which Ordinance is largely self implementing. Its purpose is to encourage continued agricultural operations and to provide a means to resolve conflicts between agricultural and nonagricultural property owners concerning agricultural operations. In part the Ordinance provides that no agricultural operation conducted consistent with accepted customs and standards of the agricultural industry shall be considered a nuisance. To the City staff's knowledge, the commenter has never employed the dispute resolution procedures set forth in the Ordinance. 15.4 The South Livermore Valley Area Plan includes a policy to: "Encourage the development of additional sources of irrigation water for vineyards and other cultivated agriculture by investigating wastewater reclamation and development of other supply and delivery sources. Encourage Zone 7 to consider developing a pump monitoring and cost allocation system to cover the cost of new water in the event that additional supplies are needed." The South Livermore Valley Area Plan does encourages the development and /or distribution of untreated (irrigation water) to the South Livermore area. However, the untreated water customers have contracts directly with the Zone 7 Water Agency and the City of Livermore is not involved directly with water supplies to viticulture and other agricultural products in the area. Although the City of Pleasanton does not have a contract for untreated water from Zone 7, agricultural users in Pleasanton outside of this plan area have some other options. If the City Council determines that the capacity exists, land within the Urban Growth Boundary can be served from the City's existing domestic water supplies, the majority of which are also supplied by the Zone 7 Water Agency, but from its treated water system. Lands within the City's Urban Growth Boundary are also able to contract directly with Zone 7 for an untreated water supply and /or negotiate to tie into other existing private untreated pipelines served by Zone 7 from the South Bay Aqueduct or State Water Project supplies. The financial feasibility of the latter options depends on the distance between the property final response to comments with throw pages 59