Urban Growth Boundary — Protecting What Makes Livermore, Livermore

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Of all Livermore's civic values, none runs deeper than the protection of the Urban Growth Boundary — the hard line that separates the city's urban fabric from the vineyards, ranchlands, and open hillsides that define its character. The draft General Plan 2045 enshrines this value explicitly, establishing as a goal "a coherent and logical pattern of urban uses that protects and enhances open space and agricultural uses by providing a clear and permanent boundary for urban uses within the city's planning area" — with policies to discourage urban uses outside city limits and to only extend urban services within the UGB. The tension is real: if the city cannot accommodate its RHNA obligation within the UGB through infill, state law may eventually compel consideration of East of Greenville expansion — a prospect that many longtime residents view as an existential threat to Livermore's identity. The General Plan addresses this by identifying East of Greenville as a future study area only if specific triggers are met — including an inability to provide services, an imbalance of land use types, or the emergence of new strategic opportunities — a carefully hedged protection that advocates want made permanent.

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