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4.4. Impact on the Uses of Vacant Parcels of Land The impact of the Initiative on vacant land would be mainly limited to those hillside residential parcels listed in Section 4.1, above,and to potential"receiver parcels"which may benefit from the allocation of additional units. Without for Initiative,those housi hillside parcels would seek planned unit development(PUD) units based on their existing General Plan land use designations, modified through the California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA)and public Initiative is adopted,the development potential of these properties would be significantly reduced, in some cases to no more than ten units.2i Table 1, above, shows the maximum development potential and the estimated numbers of housing units that would be possible under the Initiative,thus demonstrating the estimated impact of the Initiative. If those "lost" 119 to 224 hillside units then became available in other locations, such as the Downtown or within Hacienda Business i Park, those vacant"receiver"parcels would benefit by obtaining increased development potential under the housing cap. However,to the extent that assisted living units are determined by the Initiative to count as housing units under the housing cap, this increased development potential on"receive?'parcels would be eliminated, and there would be fewer conventional housing units to be built under the housing cap. The impact on the use of vacant parcels of land would also be felt by d acente ropert owners. Reduced development potential on hill area properties development impacts on neighbors who would not experience the same extent of development as they now might expect. Similarly,adding more development to other "receiver" properties elsewhere in the City may create additional development impacts not currently planned for. Any such impacts would have to be mitigated as part of the development process for"receiver" properties. 4.5. Impact on Agricultural Lands,Open Space,Traffic Congestion, and Existing Business Districts If the on those is adopted,properties listed in Table 1.development This wthan sult in anticipated open space on in the General those properties those hill area P P those properties than has been expected, although some development will still occur. To the extent that development on those properties is located on the relatively flat, lower portions of the sites, the remaining open space may continue to be used for grazing purposes,thus increasing the amount of agricultural land in the hill areas. The impact of the hillside development provisions of the Initiative on traffic will not be significant from a citywide perspective. As stated above, the total number of residential units in the community as a whole will remain the same with or without the Initiative; only the distribution and type of units will change. Given that the City's residential land 23 See also Sections 5.1 and 5.16. 10