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The SMP 40 parcel appears on track to join the city of Livermore’s maintenance district, following the City Council’s unanimous support last week for its addition to the “future annexation area”.
Located at the southern end of Discovery Drive and Atlantis Court, the parcel’s participation in the Community Facilities District No. 2021-1 will finance the upkeep, operation and replacement of an on-site trail and other services associated with the project.
The project proposal for the site of SMP 40 — which refers to the Surface Mining Permit number — includes two industrial buildings containing up to approximately 759,275 square feet of new building space with related internal roadways, parking, landscaping, utilities and other improvements, according to the city’s website.
The council’s decision on March 10, did not officially add SMP 40 to CFD No. 2021-1. Rather, entrance into the “future annexation area” is an intermediary step that streamlines the annexation of future development projects by eliminating multiple city council meetings for each proceeding. Afterwards, the parcel can be added to the CFD 2021-1 without any requirement for further public hearings or additional proceedings if their owners execute a unanimous approval.
Formal annexation of SMP 40 is scheduled to occur in the next couple of months at a council meeting, according to city officials. The decision will be a consent calendar item, which is considered routine and acted upon by the council with a single vote.
The project has been en route to join the maintenance district since project approval in March 2024, wherein it was conditioned to be annexed into city limits and a maintenance district. Formal annexation of the site into the city occurred August 2024.
All related expenditures under the CFD will be paid by the special taxes levied in CFD 2021-1, which was established July 12, 2021 and encompassed the entire city at the time.
There were no public comments, letters of protest, nor discussion of the project among council members.
Councilmember Steven Dunbar, who works at Gillig located slightly over 1,000 feet from the SMP 40 property line, said he could vote impartially. He is not an officer at the company nor one with financial interests in real estate holdings by the company.
The council also unanimously approved acquisition of an 82-acre property called
Goecken Road property for open space preservation and conservation, as part of the consent calendar.
“This council is committed to open space and to preserve that open space into perpetuity,” Livermore Mayor John Marchand said. “I fully support this, as do the rest of the members of the council.”
Situated just north of Altamont Pass Road, approximately one mile east of Greenville Road and north of Interstate-580, the property costs $1,300,000, or approximately $15,854 per acre. Funds for the purchase are to be drawn from the Altamont Landfill Settlement Agreement Open Space Fund and the City’s Transferrable Development Credits Fund.
The initial cost of the property acquisition would have no impact on the city’s General Fund. The annual cost of maintenance is expected to average between $10,000 to $15,000 and will be covered by the Open Space Mitigation Revenue Fund.
