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CULTURAL RESOURCES SURVEY REPORT <br />4400 Black Ave <br /> 16 <br /> <br />DESCRIPTION OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT RESOURCES <br />4400 Black Ave is located a short distance from downtown Pleasanton. The immediate vicinity is light <br />industrial in character; most nearby buildings and properties are similar to the subject building in scale, <br />construction date, use, and density. Amador Valley Community Park is across the street to the north. <br />The 2.59-acre lot measures approximately 200 feet in width (along Black Avenue) and 540 feet in <br />depth. The telephone company building is situated very nearly in the center of the parcel. A/HC <br />conducted a built environment survey of the project area on October 10, 2023. <br /> Figure 8: Front (north) facade <br />SETTING <br />The area in front of the building (to the north) is paved in asphalt and is devoted to automobile <br />parking, with painted stripes delineating parking spaces and numerous small islands with small trees <br />affording some visual relief. The area behind the building (to the south) is also paved for parking and <br />vehicle maneuvering, mainly for telephone company vans. A small portion of this lot is devoted to <br />storage of discarded electronic equipment, bound cardboard, and other waste sorting. In recent years <br />a steel shelter with open sides has been erected here to protect some of these materials from the <br />elements. It measures about 15 feet by 36 feet. A paved driveway along the east side of the property <br />connects the front and rear parking areas. A strip of ground several feet wide runs along the west side <br />of the property adjacent to the building. <br />Landscaping can be found in three places. Two of them are narrow strips of ground directly in front <br />of the forward-most part of the building and along its east side; these are planted with low shrubs. <br />The third is a broad lawn that fills the angle formed by a recess in the building’s northwest corner. <br />One tree can be found within this lawn; and another tree, shrubs, ground ivy, and a concrete pathway <br />can be found at its edges.