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will Livermore Trails be located? |
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Livermore Trails will be a Smart Growth Community situated on an approximately 1,400-acre site along North Livermore Avenue, West of Springtown, and within one mile of downtown Livermore. Pardee Homes will plan and build the homes. The actual area slated for housing development will be limited to 450 acres. |
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| What
types of homes will Livermore
Trails feature? |
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Pardee
will build a maximum of
2,450 homes over 10 years,
with housing allocations of 250
homes per year |
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Fifteen
percent (15%) of Livermore
Trails will be affordable
housing. |
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- 10%
at 80% AMI |
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- 5%
at 120% AMI |
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Livermore
Trails will offer a range of
housing options focusing on
single-family homes, live
work housing, town homes,
active senior homes, and
affordable housing. |
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Livermore
Trails will include 10% of
the homes for active seniors
and 25% of the homes will be
priced for middle income
families. |
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| Livermore
Trails is environmentally friendly
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Livermore
Trails will feature
clustered development to
preserve open space and
foster a sense of community.
Cluster development will
leave the majority of land
-- approximately 950-acres
-- for interconnected open
spaces, parks, recreation
spaces, and environmental
preserve areas. |
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Livermore
Trails will preserve 750
acres of open space
including the scenic
corridor and hills along
I-580, and the 250-acres
north of May School Rd., for open space and
equestrian trails, and will
feature a 200-foot greenway
along North Livermore Rd.
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Livermore
Trails homes will feature
Pardee’s LivingSmart
program that offers
homeowners environmentally
friendly features such as
solar electric generation
panels, recycled building
materials, energy efficient
appliances and many other
environmentally friendly
features which are
significantly beyond
conventional requirements. |
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Livermore
Trails will provide a
variety of transportation
options to minimize local
traffic impacts. Livermore
Trails internal shuttle
service will connect
directly into BART and
LAVTA’s proposed
Tri-Valley Rapid Bus
Network. Shuttles would
operate as often as every 15
minutes at peak periods,
providing residents with convenient
connections to downtown
Livermore, the Lawrence Livermore
Lab,
Hacienda
Business
Park
and BART (timed to meet the
trains). |
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Livermore
Trails will contribute
approximately $14 million in
traffic mitigation fees for
use by the City for traffic
improvement projects and
$3.5 million for Tri
Valley
transportation projects.
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| Livermore
Trails provides benefits to the
Entire Livermore Community |
| Parks
and Open Space: |
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The
Livermore Trails community
will include, an
approximately 750-acre
environmental and
open–space preserve that
will protect habitats for
sensitive plants and animals
on the site. The preserve
also will include public
trails, connecting open
space to parks and regional
trails. |
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Livermore
Trails will donate to the
Livermore Area Recreation
and Park District (LARPD) a
130-acre sports park site
with a value of more than
$61 million and will
construct the sports park at
an estimated total cost of
$27 million. |
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In
addition, Livermore Trails
will provide LARPD with a
$2.5 million endowment for
on-going Sports
Park
maintenance. |
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Livermore
Trails will donate $2
million endowment to a
designated conservancy for
the maintenance of the
community’s open space,
trails and the environmental
preserve. |
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Livermore
Trials also will donate
$250,000 to the
Robert
Livermore
Community Center
following voter approval of
the UGB amendment. |
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| Education: |
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A
42-acre site for a third
high school and a nine-acre
site for an elementary
school.
These fully improved
sites are valued at more
than $24 million.
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Livermore
Trails will pay
approximately $27 million in
school constructions fees. |
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Livermore
Trails will donate $5
million to the
School District
for operational capital. |
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Livermore
Trails will donate $100,000
to the Las Positas College
Foundation to create a “
Green
Building
” education program. |
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Livermore
Trails will donate a
five-acre site and a barn
facility for use by the 4-H
and FFA groups for their
agricultural education
programs. |
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| Arts
and City Services: |
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Livermore
Trails will donate a
1.5-acre fire and police
station site in addition to
$4 million for the
construction of this
facility. |
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Livermore
Trails will donate $500,000
for grants to music,
cultural and arts
organizations serving the
Livermore
community. |
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Livermore
Trails will build a replica
of the historic
May
School
; a one room school built in
1869 and destroyed by fire
in 1979. Construction costs
are estimated to be
approximately $250,000. |
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The
Livermore Trails project
will pay more than $10
million to the City of
Livermore
in residential construction
taxes that will be available
for the City general fund. |
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