Monday, March 21, 2011
The meeting takes place at 7 p.m. Tuesday at 2222 Camino Ramon.
General Plan 2030 is a step away from becoming the city's land-use constitution. Planning commissioners OK'd amendments to the 1,000-page document at an emotionally charged meeting a couple weeks ago. Next stop: City Council. Before that happens, however, council members on Tuesday will hold another public hearing on the matter to give the public more time to weigh in on the changes. No final vote is expected this week. Revisions include allowing the development of a North Camino Ramon Specific Plan and adding an air-quality component. The document is a foundation for all planning in San Ramon. It lays the groundwork for how to cope with a growing population, cut greenhouse gas emissions, accommodate development and stimulate the local …
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
The governmental body will oversee affordable housing and related programs and activities.
The City Council on Tuesday agreed to form a housing authority to oversee low-income housing and related programs in San Ramon. The move is prompted by Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to ax the state's redevelopment agencies, municipal bodies that receive state and federal money to build and maintain affordable housing. Council members voted unanimously to establish the authority and appoint as chairwoman Councilwoman Carol Rowley, who's running for mayor in the fall. In San Ramon, redevelopment money helped build Valley Vista Senior Housing – a nearly complete apartment complex for anyone older than 62 with a very low income. The worry is that if Brown's plan becomes reality, money that normally goes to the redevelopment agency for affordable…
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
City Council will consider Tuesday night whether to pay a consulting firm to rewrite parts of its main land-use planning document after voters rejected an update on the Nov. 2 ballot.
The city will consider hiring a consulting firm to bring its main land-use guide up to date after voters soundly rejected an amended General Plan on Election Day. Measure W would have extended San Ramon's urban growth boundary some 1,600-plus acres into the Tassajara Valley and nearly 600 acres on the city's western edge. Measure W opponents called those boundary changes the first step to massive urban development. The failed measure would have also extended for another five years an ordinance that protected the city's hills and ridgelines. Though the updates failed on the ballot, the city still needs to bring its General Plan up to speed with changes in state law. The updated plan will better suit the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists and …
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
After a landslide defeat of San Ramon's general plan update, the city has to redraw its blueprint for the future, which now won't directly include the Tassajara Valley.
After voters soundly rejected updates to the city's land-use guide, San Ramon will have to re-examine its plans. Measure W, which would have amended the city's general plan, lost. In fact, 70 percent of voters rejected it. The measure became a hotly debated issue when the city added an urban-growth boundary extension that would have pulled 1,600 acres of the Tassajara Valley and nearly 600 acres in the western hills into San Ramon's planning area. Planning commissioners and City Council members supported the measure financially, but their donations paled in comparison to the cash flooding the campaign against it. Save Mount Diablo, Greenbelt Alliance and grass-roots supporters from San Ramon and surrounding towns gave, by Oct. 16, about $…
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Haven't made up your mind about the city's general plan update? Read the impartial analysis and arguments for and against it here.
In a year with no City Council elections, Measure W – the proposed update to San Ramon's General Plan 2020 – has become the most hotly debated local issue. We've compiled the arguments for and against the measure, along with an impartial analysis. To read the full text of the proposed General Plan 2030, click here. Also, check out the campaign websites for the measure, www.yesonwsanramon.com, and against it, www.noonmeasurew.org.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
After an hours-long public hearing, the San Ramon City Council unanimously OK'd the planning document amendments, one of which would expand the city's urban growth boundary into the Tassajara Valley.
The City Council on Tuesday passed changes to San Ramon's General Plan 2030 after an hours-long public hearing that drew dozens of opponents. Most of the speakers addressed a controversial part of the document that would pull 1,600 acres of the Tassajara Valley into the city's urban growth boundary. About 50 people attended the 5 p.m. meeting. Environmentalist groups say that the move will lead to development in the rural valley east of the city, which is opposed by Greenbelt Alliance and Save Mt. Diablo. Council members, however, said the heart of the issue is about control. If San Ramon leaves the boundary as is, Contra Costa County may determine what gets built there. "It's about placing control in the hands of San Ramon residents," …
Friday, July 9, 2010
An San Ramon resident and advocate for keeping the Tassajara Valley free from development shares his thoughts about some proposed changes to the city's general plan.
On July 13 , the San Ramon City Council meets to review and likely approve their amended General Plan 2030. On the surface this may sound routine, but if this plan is also approved by residents in November, it will forever impact where we live. Buried deep within General Plan 2030, there is a provision to expand San Ramon's "Urban Growth Boundary" (or UGB) into the beautiful Tassajara Valley to the east and into the hills on the west of the city. If you've ever driven along Camino Tassajara Road between Blackhawk and Dublin, you know how amazingly rural and open Tassajara Valley is. It is filled with green and brown rolling hills, ancient oaks, horse stables, small family ranches and historic sites. All this within minutes of Interstate …
Some lanes will be closed during slow-traffic hours.
Traffic delays along the city's busiest road may frustrate community members in the coming months but it's all geared toward alleviating congestion in the future. Bollinger Canyon Road is facing lane closures between Interstate 680 and Alcosta Boulevard, between Canyon Lakes and Dougherty Valley roads and upcoming work on freeway on and off ramps and traffic sign synchronization. Together, the projects amount to about $13 million, according to city dngineer Brian Bornstein. "It's a pretty substantial project with all the components," he said. "We're trying to increase traffic capacity and circulation considering it's the busiest arterial in the city." The project is also being executed in anticipation of the General Plan 2030 buildout, …
Kim Lonie
10:39 pm on Thursday, November 4, 2010
Regardless of the exact percentages, and how anyone voted, I would just like to say thank you to ALL who voted. Over 10,000 San Ramon Residents took the time to get out an vote...So Thank You. more ›