Cassie Garcia

This document presents the City of Pleasanton's Comprehensive Plan, outlining goals, objectives, and actions for its long-term direction, derived from community input and leadership priorities. Key focus areas include celebrating Pleasanton's identity by strengthening its downtown and visual character, guiding growth with a new zoning ordinance, modernizing infrastructure for mobility and utilities, bolstering neighborhoods, housing, and the local economy, and enhancing parks, riverfronts, and community spaces. The plan serves as a roadmap for decision-making, budgeting, partnerships, and future investment to ensure long-term community prosperity.

The City Council is considering the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2025-2026, which includes strategic initiatives focused on enhancing public safety, infrastructure, and community welfare. Key areas of focus include updating the Pleasanton Master Plan, implementing an Airport Land Master Plan, and renovating Main Street. The budget prioritizes essential city services, infrastructure improvements, and economic development, with an emphasis on community needs and sustainable growth. Departmental highlights include administration enhancements, public safety investments, recreational space development, utility improvements, and economic development initiatives.

The notice discusses the proposed tax rate, no-new-revenue tax rate, and voter-approval tax rate for the current tax year. It mentions that the proposed tax rate is greater than the no-new-revenue tax rate, indicating a potential increase in property taxes. The document includes a comparison of taxes imposed on the average residence homestead from the last year to the taxes proposed for this year, detailing the total tax rate, average homestead taxable value, tax on average homestead, and total tax levy on all properties. It also provides information on no-new-revenue maintenance and operations rate adjustments related to state criminal justice mandates, indigent health care compensation expenditures, indigent defense compensation expenditures, and eligible county hospital expenditures.

The Pleasanton Downtown Area Visioning Master Plan focuses on reinvestment, enhancement, activation, and celebration of Downtown Pleasanton. Key areas of focus include supporting infill development on Main Street, fostering specialty commercial businesses in the Downtown Core, improving the Main Street and Downtown streetscape, creating attractive gateways to Downtown, retaining Downtown's historic building character, establishing Downtown-oriented parking policies, and expanding Atascosa River Park programming. The plan aims to transform Downtown into a vibrant and expanded destination while preserving its character and charm.