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By Amory Gutierrez
Parents-in-law accused of killing Dublin man, New York Times staffer at sports parkSeptember 27, 2026 5:51 pm
I lived in Fremont for over 30 years and moved to Pleasanton in August of last year. If you think it’s now bad here, try living in Fremont! I stll feel the small towniness of P-town. The only constant in life is change. I’ve alway’s loved Pleasanton and am now happy to be part of this town.
OK, rezone the quarries and the land around the reclamation center for high density housing, put a spur off of the proposed Livermore BART extension to it, commit the developer fees to paying off the Neal school commitments…. and get on with running the city.
Shame on every elected Pleasanton administration that pretended this 1996 requirement would go away if they just ignored it. The city just completed a rewrite of the City Plan during the law suit. Wasn’t this possibility even addressed?
Put it up there with Gov Reagan promising the underpaid state police, prison guards, teachers, and state workers generous pensions that would not have to be paid for a generation (i.e. the bills are now do)
DF
The $500,000 in legal expenses is chump change compared to what the residents of Pleasanton will lose in housing values if we are forced to start building a bunch of low-cost housing in Pleasanton. If we are forced to become another city like those on the west side of the hills, the average price of a home may fall say $100,000. If one assumes 25,000 homes in Pleasanton, that works out to $2.5 Billion (yes, that is with a “B”). So, let’s do what we can to protect this wonderful city and schools that we have, and the investment in our homes.
Also, remember that Gov. Moonbeam filed a lawsuit against Pleasanton, so for that and a thousand other reasons, vote for whoever runs against him in November. We don’t need Moonbeam Senile.
As for the Pleasanton Weekly, I am really, really getting tired of the constant string of left-wing editorials and commentaries coming out of your newspaper. The PW best pay more attention to the what is happening to all the other liberal rags (Chornicle, BANG papers, LA Times, NY Times, etc., etc). They are going broke! Cut the lefty loon editorials or your paper is religated to fish wrap and bottoms of bird cages.
PW wrote: “Pleasanton, like other cities in California that never bothered with a fixed housing cap, now has in place growth management controls that have yet to be contested by the state or organizations such as Urban Habitat. In Pleasanton, new residential development is limited to 350 permits a year, far more than the number issued in the past three years. Some cities limit the number to as low as 50.”
It would be useful to specify what these controls are that haven’t been contested. For example, limiting the number of permits issued per year has already been contested in court and stood up. Look up Petaluma’s housing cap and lawsuit from back in the ’70s.
Bowler
Pleasanton, Livermore and Dublin have done a great job with their subsidized housing. You may not be aware that most of the senior housing built in the last several years is MOSTLY gov. subsidized! What would be nice is if Ptown could offer city employees favorable int. rates or loan packages tied to employment. Of course this would be considered elitist by UH and contrary to their ultimate goal that we should all live in peace and harmony. While I cant quibble with that wishful thinking…I have NEVER seen an instance where that philosophy has worked. While on the other hand, I can cite millions(if not billions) of tax dollars wasted on the subsidizing “Great Society”. The ultimate issue for stepping from poverty to middle must come from within! And that motivation is clearly NOT come from the “leaders” of less affluent areas! I would rather see sub. small business. The failure is very high, but at least they were given an opportunity to try! And Jerry Brown, please don’t get me started on that nut job!
Bowler… tell us what to do Bowler. You have an uncanny ability to understand… even at 10 years old.
I am very concerned by what I was told by one of the leaders in this local movement. In order to achieve the very high density that they want in Hacienda they will pave over some of the streets in Hacienda, connecting large parcels to create much larger parcels which will allow for very large multistory high density developments. What are now streets will create more land for more density.
This is just the beginning, there is also desire to reclaim quarry land connecting Pleasanton to Livermore. There is a huge amount of land there!
Affordable housing should be our older housing stock and older apartments not expensive new construction that only supports development.
Every school in Pleasanton is overcrowded by state standards. The latest school demographer report says enrollment will not decline and we need to build schools PUSD can no longer afford.
Pleasanton and Tri-Valley traffic is terrible!
Can we count on our City Council to stand up to protect Pleasanton’s quality of life?