SFPUC 2001 Alameda Watershed Management Plan

III. ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING AND IMPACTSA. EXISTING PLANS AND POLICIESResource Management – Allows for a minimum parcel size of 100 acres and a maximumbuilding intensity of 0.01 FAR, except in areas supporting greenhouses where a maximumbuilding intensity of 0.1 FAR is allowed. One single-family home per parcel is allowed,provided that all other County standards are met for adequate road access, sewer and waterfacilities, building envelope location, visual compatibility, and public services. This designationprovides for agricultural uses; recreational uses; habitat protection; Watershed management;public and quasi-public uses; areas typically unsuitable for human occupation due to publichealth and safety hazards such as earthquake faults, floodways, unstable soils, or areascontaining wildlife habitat and other environmentally sensitive features; secondary residentialunits, active sand and gravel and other quarries; reclaimed quarry lakes; and similar andcompatible uses.PoliciesPolicy 58: The County shall approve only open space, park, recreational, agricultural, limitedinfrastructure, public facilities, and other similar and compatible uses outside the Urban GrowthBoundary.Program 25: The County shall work with the Livermore Area Recreation and Park District(LARPD), the EBRPD, and the San Francisco Water Department to incorporate continuous openspace areas outside the Urban Growth Boundary into the Bay Area greenbelt system.Program 26: The County shall work with the LARPD, the EBRPD, the San Francisco WaterDepartment, California Department of Fish and Game, and cities to identify appropriate publicand private uses that should be allowed within various portions of the open space system,including grazing and active and passive recreation.Watershed SubtopicPolicy 102: The County shall encourage public water management agencies to explorerecreational opportunities on Watershed lands, particularly reclaimed quarries, whererecreational use would not conflict with Watershed protection objectives.Policy 103: The County shall encourage the San Francisco Water Department to provide limitedpublic access on trail corridors through the Watershed lands surrounding San Antonio andCalaveras Reservoirs, Sunol Watershed, and the Arroyo de la Laguna. The County shall workwith the EBRPD to incorporate these Watershed corridors into the regional trail system, whererecreational use would not conflict with Watershed protection objectives.Policy 104: The County shall designate an area outside of the San Francisco Water Departmentlands that extends to the limit of the Watershed boundary as “Resource Management.” Withinthis area, the County shall encourage land use activities to adhere to management guidelinesdeveloped for the protection of Watershed lands and shall ensure that subdivisions of lands orquarry operations and reclamation plans within this designation are approved only where suchsubdivisions or quarry operations would not adversely affect the Watershed protection objectivesof the San Francisco Water Department.NOP 96.223E: Alameda Watershed Management Plan III.A-6 ESA / 930385January 2001