The General Plan

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Pleasanton General Plan

What Pleasanton, Alameda County, California is permitting and building, tracked from official state open data. The General Plan is Pleasanton's long-range blueprint for land use, housing, and growth.

1,012 Units permitted since 2018
463 Permitted in 2025
1,278 Units entitled since 2018
8 Years tracked
Pleasanton · housing units permitted by year

Source: California HCD Housing Element APR

Housing & development by year

Housing applications progress in Pleasanton, by reporting year. Source: HCD APR.
YearUnits permittedUnits entitledProjects
2025 463 406 106
2024 147 402 105
2023 18 402 65
2022 73 0 72
2021 41 5 74
2020 45 9 103
2019 127 20 154
2018 98 34 114

The plan document

Read Pleasanton's official General Plan: Pleasanton General Plan → · 2009-07-21 · 2023

Elements · 2 Verifier-checked summaries

  • The purpose of Pleasanton's Land Use Element is to provide policies and a land-use map indicating the planned location, amount, and intensity of residential, commercial, and industrial lands, as well as to provide guidance for the use of public and open-space lands. Its policies are meant to be considered together with the General Plan Map, which depicts the plan's policies in graphic form and illustrates the City's desired pattern of land use throughout the Planning Area. Reflecting the City's commitment to sustainability, the element encourages infill development and a city layout that increases walking and bicycling and minimizes vehicle-miles traveled and energy usage, promotes green-building practices for new public, residential, and commercial development, and seeks to support the City's fiscal and economic sustainability.

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  • Pleasanton's 6th cycle Housing Element frames goals as aspirational purpose statements that indicate the City's direction on housing needs, supported by policies, programs that provide actionable steps, and quantified objectives representing measurable outcomes for units to be constructed, preserved, or rehabilitated. It contains institutional changes intended to significantly increase the amount and type of housing for all income levels, with a planning period running from January 31, 2023 to January 31, 2031. In accordance with state law, the City evaluates program progress and effectiveness annually through an Annual Progress Report reviewed by the City Council and submitted to the State Department of Housing and Community Development by April 1 of each year, reflecting the City's commitment to increasing affordable housing and improving existing housing conditions.

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Element summaries are generated from the official document text and held unless every fact is grounded in the source. Links open the jurisdiction's own published documents.

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