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City of Pleasanton—Hidden Canyon Residences and Preserve Draft EIR Project Description FirstCarbon Solutions 2-19 https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480016/EIR/3 - Draft EIR/21480016 Sec02-00 Project Description.docx Measure FF In November 1996, the voters of the City of Pleasanton approved Measure FF, requiring voter approval for all but minor refinements to the City’s UGB. Areas outside the UGB line are generally suitable for the long-term protection of natural resources, large lot agriculture and grazing, parks and recreation, and similar uses. Pleasanton General Plan Land Use Element Policy 22 does not allow urban development beyond the UGB line. Measure FF is consistent with the Land Use Element of the Pleasanton General Plan, Goal 3, Policy 22, which states, "Maintain a permanent Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) beyond which urban development shall not be permitted.” The proposed project would result in the development of areas that are currently within the UGB; no development would occur outside of the UGB, and no modification to the UGB line is required or proposed. Areas included in the project site that fall outside of the UGB would be proposed as open space lands to be dedicated to EBRPD, which would provide long-term protection of these areas as open space and park lands (Exhibit 2-2). Measures PP and QQ In November 2008, City of Pleasanton voters approved two ballot initiatives relating to the City’s growth limits and regarding General Plan policy:3 1. Measure PP: Save Pleasanton’s Hills and Housing Cap, a voter initiative 2. Measure QQ: The Pleasanton Ridgelines Protection and Growth Control Initiative (a City Council measure) These two measures were incorporated into the Pleasanton General Plan adopted by the City Council on July 21, 2009. Measure PP adopted specific General Plan policies to limit placement of housing units and structures on slopes of 25 percent or greater or within 100 vertical feet of a ridgeline; limit grading on slopes of 25 percent or more or within 100 feet of a ridgeline to build residential or commercial structures; and exempt from these restrictions projects of 10 or fewer housing units on property that constituted a single legal parcel, as of January 1, 2007. Measure PP also limits the subdivision of a legal parcel, existing as of January 1, 2007, to approve more than 10 housing units. Pleasanton General Plan, Policy 21.3, which outlines the goals and directives of Measure PP, states the following: “Ridgelines and hillsides shall be protected. Housing units and structures shall not be placed on slopes of 25 percent or greater, or within 100 vertical feet of a ridgeline. No grading to construct residential or commercial structures shall occur on hillside slopes 25 percent or greater, or within 100 vertical feet of a ridgeline. Exempt from this policy are housing developments of 10 or fewer housing units on a single property. Splitting dividing or subdividing a ‘legal parcel’ to approve more than 10 housing units is not allowed.” 3 As subsequent litigation determined that Pleasanton’s earlier voter adopted housing cap was in conflict with State law, those portions of Measure PP related to the housing cap are not discussed here.