Appendix D - Cultural and Tribal Cultural Resources Supporting Information PUBLIC

2 within an unincorporated area of Alameda County and contiguous with the Pleasanton City Limits. Given the designation as being within the Pleasanton Sphere of Influence, and having a Pleasanton General Plan designation of Low Density Residential/Public Health & Safety overlay, the application will request annexation into the City of Pleasanton, along with the appropriate Rezoning, potential General Plan Amendment of Public Health/Safety (PH&S) Overlay to LDR and related entitlement applications. The area proposed for development is primarily grassland located in an area of the site not visible to the public from Dublin Canyon Road or other surrounding areas. A gated entry off of Dublin Canyon Road will be installed for the 35 new homes, and given its topographic characteristics much of the community will be only visible from a few locations in Pleasanton. The Applicant has been actively discussing with the East Bay Regional Park District (“District”) the donation of the property outside the Urban Growth Boundary which traverses the project site in a north to south alignment following a property line dividing two contiguous Lester parcels. The two Lester family houses adjacent to Dublin Canyon Road and south of the creek will be removed and replaced at the same approximate location with their two new homes so the Lester family members can continue to reside on the property. The Lesters will also retain a third parcel referenced as Parcel B to the south of their new homes for continued agricultural use including the construction of a storage building and related ranch type structures but with no allowance for residential use. The remaining 31 new homes to be accessed from the western portion of the site and across the Shriners property via a new private street and gated entrance will be separate from the access to the new Lester homes. The new homes will range in size from 3,300 to 4,100 square feet. III. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW The Dublin/Pleasanton Area – General Background The Spanish & Mexican Period The earliest human inhabitants of the area that includes the Dublin area were the Costanoan people, a hunter-gatherer society. The first European settlement in the East Bay was Mission San Jose (now in the City of Fremont) founded in 1797. The area that is today Alameda County was under the control of Mission San Jose, and the mission’s cattle would have grazed in the Amador Valley. The Spanish government made the first private land grant in Alameda County in 1820 to Luis Maria Peralta. The grant included an area that is today the cities of Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland and part of San Leandro. After Mexico seceded from Spain in April, 1822, followed by the secularization of the missions in 1833, most of the Bay Area was divided up into private ranchos. The Mexican grants in the Amador/Livermore valley include Rancho San Ramon in 1835 to J.M. Amador; Rancho El Valle de San Jose in 1839 to Augustin and Antonio Pico, and Juan Pablo Bernal; Rancho Santa Rita in 1839 to Jose Pacheco; and Rancho Las Positas in 1839 to Robert Livermore and Jose Noriega (Halley 1876:492). The project area is adjacent to and outside of what was Rancho Santa Rita.