Contra Costa Times
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DUBLIN -- The East Bay's fastest growing city has created an urban limit line along the eastern side of town to slow down development in the Doolan and Collier Canyon areas between Dublin and Livermore.
Dublin is also actively opposing a measure that would reserve 40 percent of the Doolan Canyon area for development in the future, which has been scheduled for the Nov. 4 ballot.
Faced with two conflicting citizens' initiatives on Doolan Canyon's future, the council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the Dublin Open Space initiative and to send the opposing Let Dublin Decide initiative to the ballot.
The council also voiced opposition to the Let Dublin Decide initiative and formed a two-member committee with Mayor Tim Sbranti and Councilman Abe Gupta to draft a ballot argument for the November election to oppose the measure.
"I believe development has to be balanced, and as mentioned by the residents, it has to be based on smart growth," Gupta said.
The Dublin Open Space initiative establishes an urban limit border along the eastern city limits, maintaining the Doolan-Collier Canyon area as agriculturally zoned open space without the potential for large development. Should any development proposals for the area come the city's way, they would require voter approval.
The Let Dublin Decide initiative would have designated some of the land for development and required development proposals go through the area's various planning commissions and the City Council, as is standard.