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ceive some return on his investment in the land which would tend to offset the high landholding costs incurred to date. Returns of this type would better enable a landowner/developer to continue to hold his remaining undeveloped land until it, too, could be developed. Because of the amount of land within the Urbanization Line and the length of time planned for its build-out, allowing several developers to build in any given year would ease the financial hardship incurred by all landowners within that area by allowing each the opportunity for a reasonable amount of construction spread over the build-out period. Policy 19: To limit the number of units any developer is allowed to build in any given year in order to ensure several different developers are allowed to build in any given year. Because more developers will want to develop more units than will be allocaed in a year, the selection of those receiving development ap- proval necessarily implies that some developers who would like to develop cannot develop. Fairness requires that those receiving devel- opment approval actually proceed to build. Also, the goal of a steady growth rate requires that those receiving approval actually build the permitted units. Policy 20: To revoke the approval of developments which do not make acceptable progress. All residential development does not consist of large subdivisions; some buildable lots are created through lot splits and development may occur on vacant, already subdivided lots. Isolated, small resi- dential development which would occur on such lots - singly or perhaps in tcao's or three's - is but a tiny proportion of the residential development which will occur in Pleasanton in the future, especially since very few vacant lots exist in the city and few vacant parcels of land could be split to form buildable lots. To subject such small developments to the same developmental procedures as larger subdivisions is unnecessary in order to regulate the rate of growth or the pro- vision of services and would be unnecessarily burdensome to the owners who wish to develop such lands. Policy 21: To ease the procedural requirements of the residential allocation program with respect to those small developments which, because of their size, would not affect materially the growth rate or provision of services should they develop. -13-