Pleasanton planners approve split-park general plan amendment, require at least 60% of open space along Vineyard Avenue

Pleasanton Planning Commission members on Jan. 22 voted unanimously to recommend changes to the general plan and to the Vineyard Avenue Corridor specific plan that allow a future 10.64-acre Trumark Homes site at 0 Vineyard Avenue to split the site’s required 3 acres of park and open space into more than one parcel, while ensuring most of that open space remains along Vineyard Avenue.

The commission approved staff’s recommendation to permit a split park configuration and added a requirement that one of the open-space parcels adjacent to Vineyard Avenue be contiguous and account for at least 60 percent of the site’s dedicated open space (1.8 acres minimum). The action was unanimous.

The amendment responds to neighborhood input and an applicant proposal to place a smaller, more active pocket park near the Old Vineyard Trail while retaining a larger landscaped setback facing Vineyard Avenue. Planning staff said the configuration would leave about 2.4 acres of open space abutting Vineyard Avenue and roughly 0.6 acres adjacent to Old Vineyard under the applicant’s illustrative concept; those figures were presented as the applicant’s current concept and are subject to later project-level review.

Why it matters: the site was designated for an elementary school in the 1999 Vineyard Avenue Corridor specific plan, later dedicated to the Pleasanton Unified School District, and was identified as Housing Element Site/Area 27 in the city’s…