The Pleasanton Unified School District Board of Trustees continued its discussion last Thursday on declaring almost five acres of the Donlon Elementary School field as surplus land, with most of the trustees signaling early support for selling the land and converting it into roughly two dozen single-family homes.
However, there were still some on the dais who had concerns over letting go of the land and reiterated that the board should continue to consider all of the factors that would come with this potential sale as the district gets set to return at a future board meeting with a final recommendation.
“I do think that the board needs to be really thoughtful and think strategically what will be best for our community dealing with the housing crisis and some of the challenges of making homes affordable, whereas also being cognizant of what would make sense for this particular area of land,” School Board President Kelly Mokashi said during the June 25 board meeting…