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City Document Review This section reviews and highlights key documents that the city has published in regard to the health and maintenance of their urban forest. Pleasanton General Plan 2005 - 2025 Plan Summary: A city’s General Plan determines community goals and aspirations of community development. Future growth for development, natural areas, infrastructure projects, and others are decided based on community outreach and needs of the city. The General Plan is where to find the intent of city planners and what the expectation is for the product, being the overall health and wellbeing of the city. This section focuses on how the General Plan interacts with the urban forest and what can be improved on to ensure that development keeps the urban forest in the forefront of expansion. Table M-1. General Plan Highlights Goal/Policy Section Relation to UFMP Vision Statement As our city approaches buildout in the next few years, we will strive to maintain these desirable qualities by continuing to develop a safe, convenient, and uncongested circulation system, comprehensive system of bicycle and pedestrian trials, additional recreational and cultural facilities for the health and well-being of our residents, and by preserving our natural resources, including water and air quality, and our community's environmental sensitivity. Vision Statement The spirit of the vision statement revolves around the health, safety, recreation, and preservation of environmental ecosystems. This UFMP discovers the baseline of assets that Pleasanton has that will enable better measurement of progress during the next phases of city expansion. Goal 1: Policy 1: Program 1.1: Biennially assess community sustainability and quality of life in Pleasanton through measures such as: traffic congestion and delay, energy use, water quality and availability, fiscal sustainability, air quality, extent of tree canopy, and park acreage and bike path/trail miles per capita Land Use Element While this goal is biennial, a UFMP is generally usable for 20 - 30 years with an update every 10 – 15 years. It is recommended to maintain an updated tree inventory and canopy cover analysis, no more than five years old to keep data current on the progress of the urban forest. The City maintains 15,000 trees while private home and business owners maintain over 60,000 trees. Community Charter With a recommendation to maintain an updated City-tree inventory no more than five years old, future updates to the UFMP will show progress towards reaching Pleasanton’s canopy cover goal. Policy 17, Program 17.1: In existing and new residential areas, where such principles will not conflict with surrounding development patterns or the physical conditions of the site, encourage the use of traditional residential neighborhood Planning which incorporates large canopy street trees and 6' - 10' wide parkway strips Community Charter Developers and residents will be able to utilize this UFMP as a reference document to select trees to plant and follow on research for complimentary understory like water-wise plants. Policy 17, program 17.5 Consider a City sponsored street tree replacement Community Charter Section 2 of this UFMP lists which neighborhoods have the lowest canopy