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must not interfere with agricultural use in the area, and must not interfere with documented public agency plans to connect or create trails and open space areas. Measure F may not be amended as to land use designations nor repealed except by a vote of the citizens of Pleasanton. Measure F does not apply to the Southeast Hills. The Southeast Hills are characterized by rolling to steeply sloping hills used predominantly as grazing and watershed land. With few exceptions, the General Plan designates much of South Pleasanton as Public Health and Safety, and Wildlands Overlay, with no development capacity other than asingle-family home on existing private lots of record (see Attachment 3). These designations cover the steeper slopes, higher elevations, areas subject to landslides and other hazards, watershed land, and valuable wildlife habitat and corridor areas. The General Plan further states that consideration should be given to preserving large open space acreage in South Pleasanton by a combination of private open space and a public park system. Trail rights-of-way and land should be acquired by way of developer dedications, as well as by bond measures, corporate and personal donations, regional, State and federal funding programs, etc. It also states that attempts to achieve public access to open space areas and trails should not create onerous impositions on property owners. The Public Safety Element of the General Plan indicates that areas prone to landslides, slope instability, or with slopes of 25 percent or greater are generally designated on the General Plan Land Use Map as Public Health and Safety (see Attachment 3). This designation allows no development other than one single family home on existing lots of record as of September 16, 1986 that also meet City requirements for access, public safety, and site and architectural design. Furthermore, where development is permitted, the City's policy is to require site specific geotechnical investigations and soils reports for review during the development process. The Public Safety Element further states (p. V-4): "In unstable areas, the City seeks to minimize grading of slopes for construction or slope stability repairs, limit grading only to where it is essential for development, and prohibit major grading where slopes are 25 percent or greater." In practice, because a detailed, parcel-by-parcel analysis of these conditions is not feasible for General Plan purposes, some properties or portions of properties which include areas of steep slopes or which have geotechnical issues are included within the "Rural Density Residential" land use designation, which allows development at .2 dwelling units per acre (or one unit per five acres), or within the "Low Density Residential" designation, with amid-point of one dwelling unit per acre and a maximum density of two dwelling units per acre. In these cases, development applications must include detailed, site-specific geotechnical reports which analyze the project with respect to the site conditions (soils types, slope stability, geologic history) and recommend mitigations which are incorporated into the project. Reference to development on lands with 25 percent slope is also made in the Conservation and Open Space Element of the General Plan. Program 13.1 provides Page 3 of 9