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ATTACHMENT4 <br />~. <br />HA('ILNDA <br />Hacienda Business Park TOD Planning <br />General Plan Review <br />Introduction <br />The City of Pleasanton's General Plan sets the overall land use and planning policy <br />affecting development in the City, including Hacienda Business Park. Pleasanton is <br />currently in the process of updating its General Plan; Plan adoption is anticipated in <br />Spring, 2008. Concurrent with this process, the Pleasanton City Council directed the <br />Pleasanton Planning Staff to continue to work with Hacienda in exploring development <br />options in the park as part of the General Plan update process. The planning process for <br />Hacienda is directed towards exploration of development opportunities to introduce more <br />housing and mixed-use development, promote greater integration of jobs, housing, and <br />transit, and create an improved pedestrian environment. <br />This memo provides the following: <br />• Reviews the draft elements of the General Plan <br />• Identifies policy direction which will guide future development in Hacienda <br />• Demonstrates consistency between General Plan policy and the envisioned future <br />development in Hacienda, and <br />• Suggests options for allowing transit-oriented development to progress in Hacienda <br />Business Park, consistent with General Plan direction, including suggestions for an <br />alternative planning process other than a Specific Plan document. <br />This review addresses all elements included in the General Plan Update process to date <br />(Land Use, Circulation, Energy, Public Facilities and Community Programs, <br />Conservation and Open Space, Public Safety, Subregional Planning, Community <br />Character, and Economic and Fiscal). Review of the Noise, Air Quality, and Water <br />elements will be conducted, following their release for public review. <br />All of the General Plan elements contain relevant policy direction for the future <br />development of Hacienda Business Park. Several of the elements (Land Use, <br />Circulation, Community Character, and Subregional Planning) contain specific direction <br />regarding infill, TOD, sustainability, alternative transportation modes, and the pedestrian <br />environment, all of which directly relate to current planning efforts in Hacienda. This <br />memo includes a detailed analysis of the most relevant elements. It is important to note <br />Hacienda Business Park General Plan Review <br />December 2007 Page 1 <br />