Pleasanton Referendum on the Oak Grove Development (2010)
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A Referendum on the Oak Grove Development will go on a ballot in Alameda County for voters in the City of Pleasanton. An exact date for the vote has not yet been announced.
After years of litigation that began in 1992, the California Supreme Court ruled on October 14 that the issue must go to a public vote.[1]
The Oak Grove development is a proposed 51-home subdivision on a 562-acre hillside location owned by Jennifer and Frederick Lin. The Lins originally asked the City of Pleasanton in 1992 for approval to build 122 housing units and an 18-hole golf course.
Timeline
- 1992: The City of Pleasanton approved a request from Jennifer and Frederick Lin for a 122-unit housing development at the Oak Grove property.
- 1993: Opponents of the development collected signatures on a veto referendum measure to overturn the city's 1992 approval. Opponents collected enough signatures to force the measure to the vote. On the 1993 ballot, the city's approval was overturned.
- 2003: Oak Grove developers proposed a scaled-down plan to the city, reducing the number of homes that would go on the property from 122 to 51.
- 2007: The City Council approves the scaled-down plan to build 51 homes in the subdivision.
- 2008: "Save Pleasanton Hills", a group opposed to the development, collected sufficient signatures to put the city council's approval to a vote. The developers sued and Frank Roesch, an Alameda County judge, removed the measure from the ballot. Roesch said that the petitions were invalid because they did not include details of the development such as the maximum allowable height of homes in the subdivision. "Save Pleasanton Hills" appealed the decision.
- November 2008: The group "Save Pleasanton Hills" wins their campaign to pass the Pleasanton Growth Limit Initiative (2008).
- July 2009: California's First District Court of Appeal overruled Roesch. The appeals court said that state law only requires a veto referendum petition to include the exact text off the law that the referendum is challenging and that the petitions did, in fact, contain the exact text of the ordinance that approved the Oak Grove development, including its size, location, history and environmental impact. The developers appealed this decision to the California Supreme Court.
- Ocotber 2009: The California Supreme Court upheld the July 2009 decision of the First District Court of Appeal, and ordered that an election take place.
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