Livermore General Plan

City of Livermore

DC&E managed the update of the Livermore General Plan, which had not been comprehensively updated since 1976. Since that time, Livermore's population grew from 42,000 to 74,000 and the city was divided by a contentious debate over the possible development of some of the last rangeland in the Bay Area. The community input on major land use and growth issues gathered by DC&E's work on the Livermore Vision Project in 2001 established a starting point for the update process. A 15-member Steering Committee held public meetings over a period of a year to resolve the major issues facing the plan update. The final General Plan maintains undeveloped land on the northern edge of the city through the designation of higher-density mixed-use development within existing developed areas; includes policies to shift housing development towards the Downtown and urban core; creates clearly-defined areas for transit-oriented development around a potential BART station and the existing ACE stations; and includes innovative programs to preserve and increase vineyards and wine-related tourism and policies to protect views of the open hillsides surrounding the city.

The Livermore General Plan, along with the Livermore Vision Project, won the Northern California APA Chapter Award for Comprehensive Planning in 2003.