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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA RESOLUTION NO. 93-102 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PLACEMENT OF A CITY COUNCIL SPONSORED INITIATIVE PROPOSING A GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT REGARDING THE PLEASANTON RIDGELANDS AREA ON THE NOVEMBER 2, 1993 SPECIAL ELECTION, DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE AN IMPARTIAL ANALYSIS OF THE INITIATIVE, AUTHORIZING ARGUMENTS CONCERNING THE INITIATIVE MEASURE, ALLOWING REBUTTAL ARGUMENTS REGARDING THE INITIATIVE MEASURE, AND REQUESTING ALAMEDA COUNTY TO CONDUCT THIS ELECTION IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NOVEMBER 2,-1993 SPECIAL ELECTION WHEREAS, the Ridgelands Area includes approximately 13,000 acres generally bounded by 1-580, Palomares Road, Niles Canyon Road, Foothill Road, and the 670 foot Residential/Open Space boundary in the Pleasanton General Plan exclusive of the existing communities of Sunol, Kilkare Canyon and Castlewood; and WHEREAS, the boundaries of the Ridgelands Area are shown on the attached Exhibit "A"; and WHEREAS, part of the Ridgelands Area is within Hayward, part is within Pleasanton and the remainder is unincorporated area of the County; and WHEREAS, the Ridgelands Area is largely comprised of steeply sloping, heavily forested land, which now is primarily pasture open space and which offers opportunities for high value active and passive open space uses, both park and quasi-public; and WHEREAS, significant development of the Ridgelands Area and the necessary infrastructure to serve such development would impact the views of the Area, be an expensive and inefficient use of public resources, occur in potentially unstable, sloping areas which are relatively difficult for emergency services to reach, impair areas of important continuous native habitat, including riparian corridors, thereby harming the wildlife that relies on these areas for its survival as well as reducing the diversity of species, and decrease, if not eliminate, the economic viability of agricultural areas in the Ridgelands Area; and ..