2025 Urban Water Management Plan

Section 3 2025 Urban Water Management Plan Service Area Description City of Pleasanton Public Draft | May 2026 3-9 EKI Environment & Water, Inc. 3.4 Land Uses This section describes Pleasanton’s current and projected land uses in its service area. Land use information is based on the City’s current 2005-2025 General Plan that was adopted in 2009 (Pleasanton, 2009). State law mandates the development and adoption of general plans to guide land use and development within cities (CGC §65030.1). The Land Use Element of the City’s General Plan provides policies and maps that guide the use of public and open-space lands and specify the location, amount, and potential density and intensity for development of residential, commercial, and industrial lands. Existing land use within the City generally consists of distinct residential neighborhoods typically separated from non-residential land uses to minimize the potential incompatibility of non-residential and residential uses. Almost every neighborhood has a school and a park within walking distance for its residents, and the City provides several larger public facilities including sports parks and community centers. Alameda County Fairgrounds are in Pleasanton. The city was predominantly a residential community until 1980, when it saw increased development of industrial, commercial, and office uses. This non-residential development includes the Stoneridge Mall, seven major business parks, five major hotels, and a variety of service centers. Abundant open space surrounds the developed areas of the City, and the City’s General Plan highlights the importance of preserving that open space. The current General Plan encourages mixed land uses and transit-oriented development (TOD), particularly near the Bay Area Rapid Transit stations, for future growth. Mixed use development combines office, commercial, hotel, institutional, and residential land uses on a single site or adjacent, interrelated sites. TOD provides walkable, mixed-use communities designed around transit stations. Mixed use developments (including TODs) would provide people with the opportunity to use alternative modes of transportation to automobiles since residential and non-residential land uses would be combined or integrated on a single or nearby site. The City’s 2023-2031 Housing Element identifies planned/proposed new residential development, including approved projects, expansions of existing housing sites, accessory dwelling units (ADU), and a rezoning program to introduce new housing sites on select commercial and open space parcels. While the area east of current City limits, between the cities of Pleasanton and Livermore, has historically been used for sand and gravel mining, both the City and Alameda County have in recent years received development review applications. The City is working with developers to review the feasibility of annexing this area of east Pleasanton area where new development is proposed and connecting that area to the Pleasanton water system. Also in that area, Kiewit Housing Project is a major housing development currently in construction, and construction of Costco was completed in 2024, which added a major commercial development in Pleasanton. Section 4.5 provides more detail on the projected water demands associated with these new developments.  CWC §10631 (a) ...The description shall include the current and projected land uses within the existing or anticipated service area affecting the supplier’s water management planning. Urban water suppliers shall coordinate with local or regional land use authorities to determine the most appropriate land use information, including, where appropriate, land use information obtained from local or regional land use authorities…