Three properties in Pleasanton's Hacienda business park would be rezoned for high-density housing, with room for up to 1,438 more homes, if the City Council approves a package of General Plan and zoning changes at its Tuesday, Nov. 17 meeting.
The council is acting under a deadline it agreed to. In June 2025 the city signed a settlement with the Housing Action Coalition, which had challenged whether the sites listed in Pleasanton's state-required housing plan, known as the 6th Cycle Housing Element, were adequate.
Under that deal, the city committed to rezone three specific properties for dense housing by Dec. 31, 2026, according to the staff report by Deputy Community and Economic Development Director Derek Farmer.
The three sites
All three are now designated Mixed Use-Business Park and zoned for industrial and commercial offices. The plan would add a new "Housing Opportunity Site Overlay" in the General Plan and rezone them to the Housing Opportunity Zone district:
- Hacienda West, 3825/3875 Hopyard Road: 14.19 acres at 30 to 40 homes per acre, up to 567 units.
- Metro 580, 4515 Rosewood Drive: 10.52 acres of the 15.52-acre property would be rezoned at 30 to 60 homes per acre. The other 5 acres were already zoned for housing. The site could hold up to 1,006 units, a net gain of 631 after counting 375 already studied in the environmental review for the city's housing plan.
- 5960 Inglewood Drive: 6 acres at 30 to 40 homes per acre, up to 240 units.
Staff say the sites were chosen because their owners have shown interest in redeveloping, they are near transit and services, and they are big enough for the densities proposed. No building plans are before the council.
Any future project would go through the city's housing-site conformance review, including Planning Commission approval, and would have to meet Pleasanton's objective design standards for height, setbacks, parking and architecture.
