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Home My WebLink AboutItem 5.1 Las Positas New Town Project CaDUB AGENDA STATEMENT ` e Meeting Date: November 22, 1982 SUBJECT Written Communication from City of Livermore Mayor Dale Turner re: Las Positas/New Town EXHIBITS ATTACHED : Letter from Mayor Dale Turner dated November 10, 1982 and Resolution RECOMMENDATION None 4tC- FINANCIAL STATEMENT: None DESCRIPTION : The City has received a request from Mayor Dale Turner to support the City of Livermore-An its opposition to the proposed Las Positas/New Town project. COPIES TO: Lee Horner Dale Turner ITEM NO. ■ • - ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 1052 South Livermore Avenue Livermore,CA 94550 (415) 449-4000 DALE TURNER Mayor ''. ECEIVED November 10 , 1982 NOV 121982 _ i : F D11BIN Honorable Peter W. Snyder Mayor, City of Dublin P. 0. Box 2340 Dublin, CA 94568 Dear Mayor Snyder: I am enclosing a copy of the City of Livermore' s Resolution No. 245-82, and would earnestly solicit your City' s support of our Resolution. Let me explain a little bit about the Resolution. The City of Livermore is faced with the prospect of having the County approve a significantly large development--primarily residential--adjacent to our boundaries. Further, the County is considering having this area develop under County controls and, once developed, create a County Service Area or District to provide municipal-type services to those residing within the development. The City of Livermore has consistently opposed this development because we feel it is contrary to good planning principles and practices. These principles and practices suggest that urban-type development should, whenever possible, occur within existing urban frameworks.. where the necessary infrastructure already exists to provide municipal-type services. Let me .assure you that we are not opposing growth or development. What we do oppose is the fact that the County is considering a major development, one that would have a major impact upon our community without allowing the City . of Livermore the opportunity to coordinate and/or control the processes.developmental . While p p your community may never have r..G to deal with this kind of an issue, I would hope that you can understand our feelings and the fact that the County may take APVm action that could impact upon all County residents. For �4Zz exam le all Count y taxpayers will indirectly have to pay for a portion of the costs to provide municipal-type services to a �, County Service Area or District. Administrative overhead and • 4' other indirect costs would, quite likely, be charged to the 4 , County' s General Fund. Further, the precepts of local control are being violated when the County begins to get into the 0,r business of urban development. F j,�':v'rN ftK.: Z� J ‘°:• ,OrWeql, . ° )4 ee Ft ' i'ciff'7 4rv,. :„ ,,„-- 4,;',- Mayor Peter W. Snyder City of Dublin Dublin, CA November 10 , 1982 Page Two The Resolution that we have sent to the Alameda County. Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors will have much more meaning and impact if it is supported by the other cities in our County. I would appreciate your City' s strong support of our position in this most important and critical issue for the City of Livermore. I hope we can count on your support, and that you could send your Resolution to us by the end of this month. C DALE TU• ' R Mayor LH/DT/cm • Enclosure rG t• . IN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LIVERMORE STATE OF CALIFORNIA RESOLUTION NO. 245-82 A RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE PROPOSED LAS POSITAS/NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT WHEREAS, the Las Positas Land Company has applied for General Plan and Rezoning changes from Alameda County, with the ultimate goal of developing a significantly large amount of land adjacent to the City of Livermore; and - WHEREAS, the City of Livermore has consistently opposed this development inasmuch as it is contrary to good planning principles and practices which suggest that urban-type development should, whenever . possible, occur within existing urban frameworks where the necessary infrastructure already exists to provide municipal-type services; and WHEREAS, no factual information has been presented or changed since the Las Positas Land Company last presented development plans, nor have any specific proposals been made to mitigate environmental , social , or economic impacts to the residents of Alameda County in general and the residents of adjacent urban areas in particular; and WHEREAS, the Las Positas/New Town project will socially, economi- cally, and environmentally negatively impact the Livermore Joint Unified School District, the Livermore Area Recreation and Park District , the City of Livermore, and other agencies and residents residing within the Livermore-Amador Valley; and WHEREAS, State, regional, and local policies developed over a period of years recognize that existing municipalities are the most effective and efficient providers of municipal-type service, and this is reinforced by the -position taken by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) who previously adopted a resolution stating that the serious -problems of the Livermore-Amador Valley, which have been caused in part by regional , State, and Federal policies and actions, would be made much more difficult by the premature development proposed for the Las Positas area, and that the Las Positas project would be in serious conflict with regional policies so long as conditions leading to such conflicts have not been substantially improved; and WHEREAS , when urban-type development , such as the Las Positas project , occurs outside but adjacent to a municipality, such develop- ment impacts upon the adjacent city and places an additional strain upon the adjacent city, inasmuch as the residents of the development will use and require certain services provided by the city without having to share the burden of paying for such services; and • ,- WHEREAS , the Lc—ue of California Cities a+- `heir 1982 Annual conference, gave oven lming support to the reso :ion sponsored by the City of Livermore that stated that the citizens of our State are best served if the normal municipal--type services are provided through the framework of a municipal government, thus negating the need to establish several multi-layered single districts; and WHEREAS, testimony given at a recent public hearing conducted by the Alameda County Planning Commission, and by other testimony which has been submitted by several public agencies and private citizens, indicates significant concern over the development of a magnitude of the proposed Las Positas project , particularly if such development occurs outside of and beyond the planning and control of the adjacent munici- pality. . NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LIVERMORE, that in light of the City of Livermore ' s ability to provide for superior planning and development of the area in question, that the City Council reaffirms and continues 'its vigorous opposition to the proposed Las Positas/ New Town project , urges other public agencies to support the City of Livermore ' s position, and, further, also urges the Alameda County Planning Commission and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to deny the Las Positas Land Company' s application for General Plan` and Rezoning changes. = , ; . . -. : APPROVED AS TO FORM _ ". .. -i..7-71i,":i,'.„_., (,_____.-'.�_�I TY ATTORNEY i/ : . On motion of Councilmember Kamena " • L , seconded by Councilmember Brcwn ,. the foregoing Resolution was passed and adopted this 25th day of Octcber . . , . 1982,-by the • following vote: :_ - - . : ::. _ AYES: COINCT7,MFMBERS KANENA, BROWN, WIESKANP, STEIN AND M4YOR TURNER NOES: - NONE . . :ABSENT: NONE 0, / ice MAYOR, CITY QjF LIVERM RE, CALIFORNIA ATTEST: I hereby cer ,ly that t!::.. e.!iO',a is a ;gull, true and F,CCurC;{:C Ccw { s. .',c5 ::.i6f.,;1 edop;-c"d by di: CP.:! (.2.13:.:::::;1 { r ziw, C; y CITY CLERK or LIvermoso on A, '.2-S--- o� - Livermore, Calif. 1/- /- K `la-'/ , Cil:y Cl:,r�