It has San Ramon to the north, Pleasanton to the south, the undevelopable hills to the west, and the Camp Parks Reserve Training base to the east.
That area has historically been trying to preserve the beauty of the hills by restricting building from the top 1/3rd of the hilltops. I think that Danville and Alamo finally stopped doing that along the Las Trampas ridge along I-680.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that Dublin stubbornly stuck to no development, perhaps trying to mimic Pleasanton's and Livermore's "historic" downtown appeal. However, Dublin did nothing to develop in the nearly 30 years that I lived in that area.
-PJ
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I’m very familiar with Dublin.
It’s left wing wacko country.
Most of the staff of the federal prison to the east of Dublin live there, along with the management of five local labor unions.
Their police are jack-booted thugs, as are the school district employees.
There is no beauty to any hills in view from Dublin (unless you like windmills)