VOLUME LII, NUMBER 50 Your Local News Source Since 1963 SERVING DUBLIN • LIVERMORE • PLEASANTON • SUNOL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2015 Council to Look at Parallel Tracks In Deciding Golf Course Future The Springtown Golf special council meeting on and keeping open the golf vote would be required to ment regarding the cost of Course will be kept in "sus- Monday to hear from resi- course. allow for housing. Council- converting and maintaining Find Out What's pended animation" while dents on what they would To deal with the poten- member Stewart Gary made open space. A consultant the Livermore City Council like to see happen. One tial for housing, the coun- the motion. would be brought on board Happening gathers information to use group wanted to keep the cil voted unanimously to The council directed staff to provide the council with in determining the future of golf course open; a second place a citywide initiative to proceed with two other a better idea of the cost of Check Out Section A the facility. group wants the council to measure on the November actions. open space versus the cost Section A is filled with City staff had recom- close the golf course and 2016 ballot. Its wording One would involve pro- of a golf course, including information about arts, mended closing the golf consider other uses for the would preclude any future posing a master planning potential subsidies. people, entertainment and course and beginning a mas- property. Neither viewpoint council from rezoning the process that considers future The Livermore Area Rec- special events. There are ter planning process to look favored any housing devel- 85-acres to residential and uses for the golf course. The reation and Park District education stories, a variety at future uses for the site. opment. The council will then approving housing. vote was unanimous. A and Livermore Valley Joint of features, and the arts and A crowd of over 300 follow a parallel process If the measure were ap- report for the council would Unified School District will entertainment and bulletin filled the Elks Lodge for the that includes both closing proved, a second citywide include a macro assess- board. (See GOLF COURSE, page 5) Cook-Kallio Lund to Run for Ranch II Assembly Gets Go Former Pleasanton City Councilwoman Cheryl Ahead Cook-Kallio has announced The Pleasanton City plans to seek the Democratic Council approved a new Party nomination for the version of the Lund Ranch 16th State Assembly seat II development at its meet- in the state's June 7, 2016 ing last week. The plan primary. was submitted by devel- The seat is currently held oper Greenbriar Homes in by Republican Catharine response to issues raised at Baker, who was elected in previous council meetings. 2014. Baker is expected to It was not the developers be chosen by Republicans to preferred plan. again represent the party in The 195-acre former the June 2016 primary. Lund Ranch parcel is lo- In the past, Cook-Kallio cated in the southeast hills said that she has been asked of Pleasanton. Thirty-four to run for the school board, aces will be developed. The board of supervisors and the remaining 161 acres will assembly. be designated as perma- Cook-Kallio said she that nent open space with public last spring she was urged to walking trails. run for the Assembly in 2016 The vote was 3 to 1, with by friends. She had thought Karla Brown opposed. Jerry about it in 2014. However, Pentin recused himself from Democrats chose former Photo - Doug Jorgensen the proceedings. Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti Rain moved the annual Dublin tree lighting indoors last Thursday. The weather didn't dampen the fun, as participants It was the third meeting as the party's candidate. were entertained by various groups. Following the tree lighting, a special visitor from the North Pole dropped in in a row where a decision Cook-Kallio has been to hear Christmas wishes. For another photo, go to page 6. had been scheduled. Mayor a public school teacher for Jerry Thorne commented in over 39 years. She served on saying there needs to be a the Pleasanton City Council decision, "I can't see bring- for eight years, terming out Pleasanton to Explore ing this back over and over in 2014. as polarized as this council She retired from teach- is. I'm throwing it back to ing in June. She believes the Happy Valley Annexation the public to challenge its le- subject she taught, govern- gality, referend it, whatever ment and law, has provided Annexing Happy Valley level that the bypass road road, in cooperation with because of traffic concerns, you want to do." her with expertise that would to Pleasanton will be consid- would not be necessary, the annexation of all or part "What we do tonight, if we Brown had made a mo- help her to get things done at ered by Pleasanton, but the Pleasanton City Manager of Happy Valley." get rid of the need for the tion to delay the decision the state level. city is in no hurry to do so. Nelson Fialho said during The motion was ap- bypass road, will make you until the Dec. 15 council She said that she doesn't There is a chance that if an interview. proved 4-0, with Jerry Pentin feel better." meeting, but received no believe the 16th District there were an annexation, The issue of Happy Val- recused. There is no guarantee the second. Brown wanted time receives things it needs. the city's commitment to a ley annexation and the The Happy Valley bypass bypass road would be elimi- to vet the new version pro- BART to Livermore was future bypass road to keep bypass road came up at the road, if built as shown in the nated. According to Fialho it posed by Greenbriar Homes. one example, transportation traffic off Sycamore Road city council meeting Dec. 1 city's general plan, could would be highly speculative Issues included traffic funding to improve roads and Alisal Street might not during the discussion of the feed traffic into a street at this time. Fialho added, and compliance with Mea- another. A third need relates be needed. If the city an- Lund Ranch II development. that would also used by "Olson's motion clearly did sure PP, the ridgeline and to school facilities. nexes Happy Valley, it might Councilmember Arne Olson Lund Ranch II. Mayor Jerry not direct the elimination hillside protection measure Cook-Kallio points out implement street improve- made a motion that included Thorne told neighborhood of the bypass road. Rather approved by voters. that state money is needed to ments that would bring safe having city staff "explore the residents who opposed the the direction was to add the Greenbriar's preferred traffic circulation to such a elimination of the bypass Lund Ranch II development (See ASSEMBLY, page 12) (See HAPPY VALLEY, page 4) (See LUND RANCH, page 4) Lab Researchers Use 3D Printing to Build Human Physiology Outside the Body The cardiovascular sys- the way we do biology,” laries, to develop on their tem is a complex web of said Lab research engineer own. tens of thousands of miles Monica Moya, the project’s Initially, tubes are printed of arteries, capillaries and principal investigator. “This out of cells and other bioma- veins, branching throughout technology can take biology terials to deliver essential the body like tributaries of from the traditional petri nutrients to the surrounding a great river. Researchers dish to a 3D physiologically printed environment. Even- at Lawrence Livermore relevant tissue patch with tually, the self-assembled National Laboratory are functional vasculature.” capillaries are able to con- recapitulating this intricate Using a 3D printer and a nect with the bio-printed network using an emerging “bio-ink” made of materials tubes and deliver nutrients technology: 3D bioprinting. compatible with the human to the cells on their own, Researchers say the pre- body, Moya and her team enabling these structures cision and 3D structures have successfully printed to function like they do in made possible through bio- structures with living cells the body. printing are enabling them and biomaterials. The ma- “If you take this approach Photo - Doug Jorgensen to more effectively repro- terial and environment are of co-engineering with na- The Pleasanton Holiday Parade downtown Main Street last Saturday featured a variety duce human physiology engineered to enable small ture you allow biology to of entries. Marching, bands, floats, Star Wars characters, and the Balloon Platoon outside of the body. The blood vessels, human capil- (See 3D, PAGE 4) were among them. For another photo, go to page 6. process will eventually lead to a better representation of each tissue system that makes up the human body. Inside PET OF THE WEEK Printing implantable or- Here’s Johnny! He’ll be good for anyone who loves gans is not in the immediate adorable orange tabbies. Don’t come late – this future. However, bioprinted SECTION A Editorial..............................4 two-month-old will go, go, go…they’ll be coming tissue patches can be ap- Art & Entertainment...........8 Mailbox...............................4 from miles around to meet Johnny! 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