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130 Mayor Mercer referred to the statement, "if 20% of the land on which development were to be permitted or to be fully developed, it would result in a population increase to the City of Pleasanton of approximately 10% in the next 10-12 years." He suggested removing that sentence and substitute it for "7,000 people". Mayor Mercer preferred the Ridgeland's Executive Committee's proposed language over all other proposals. Mr. Butler was very concerned with the length of the ballot language. He felt that it was important to be able to get an idea or meaning out a paragraph. He felt that the shorter proposal submitted by the Executive Committee did an excellent job in explaining the plan. Ms. Mohr believed that the ballot language needed to be as brief as possible, the numbers should be included in the impartial analysis, and ballot arguments should have the political view points listed in them. She supported Option 1 of the City Attorney's proposal and thought a sentence should be added explaining why the 2640 units were called for. It was moved by Ms. Mohr that Option one be adopted, substituting the word , "in perpetuity" with "permanently" and adding the phrase "in order to generate efficient revenue 'to acquire the open space" to follow "2640 units". The motion died for lack of a second. Mr. Tarvet understood the concern in using numbers in the ballot language. He believed that the concept of how much the City would be retaining, the amount of acres that were involved, the number of units, supporting uses, and the access roads, were the key points of the plan that needed to be conveyed to the public. It was moved byMr. Butler, and seconded by Mayor Mercer, that. the Option i of the Ridgeland's Executive Committee language be adopted, to read as follows: Shall the General Plan of the City of Pleasanton be amended by adopting the Pleasanton Ridgelands Plan, which provides a mechanism to retain in perpetuity the undeveloped ridges above Pleasanton and as is economically feasible to provide open space on approximately 80% of the area creation of publicly- accessible parkland trails and other rectreational facilites? The plan would permit, in areas not visible from Pleasanotn but within the 7100 acres of the Ridgelands, absolutely no more than 2,640 residential units with associated neighborhood-serving retail for the purpose of generating the funds necesssary to finance public acquisistion of these open areas at no addition cost to existing taxpayers, substituting the words "in perpetuity" with "permanently" and adding . 3/3/92 28