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General Plan: Land Use. The Land Use Element may need to be clarified regarding the definition of ridgeline in order to coordinate with policies (adopted by the voters in 1993) applicable to the Pleasanton Ridgelands. Housing Element. Housing inventory tables will need to be modified to reflect changed densities due to development restrictions imposed by the Initiative's Policy 12.3.17 Additionally, the Growth Management discussion must change to reflect the new definition of housing unit, and its application. Public Facilities. The discussion about the school impact feels would need to be revised to address potential lost revenue. (See Section 7, below.) The description of the water distribution system may need to be revised if the transfer of units from the hillside to infill areas results in system modifications, including less demand for new water pipes and connections.19 Conservation and Open Space. Program 13.1 of this element, which currently limits properties comprised of land with no slope of less than 25% to only one unit, would need to be harmonized with the proposed Policy 12.3 to determine if the Initiative's exemption from its prohibition on construction on slopes of 25% or greater for ten or fewer units would increase development potential on properties restricted by Program 13.1. Happ~ey Specific Plan: Land Use. As noted in Section 4.1, above, the application of the Initiative's Policy 12.3 could shift housing units away from the Spotorno Upper Valley, to potentially the Spotorno Flat, or possibly out of the Happy Valley area altogether. This would create an inconsistency with the Land Use Element of the Happy Valley Specific Plan.20 Bypass Road. The Initiative's proposed Policy 12.3 provides that "[h]ousing units and structures shall not be placed on slopes of 25 percent or greater..." and also prohibits "grading to construct residential or commercial structures ... on hillside slopes 25% or greater, or within 100 vertical feet of a ridgeline." It would appear that a road, such as the Bypass Road, that is intended to serve existing development (such as, in the case of the Bypass Road, the golf course and surrounding residential lots) could be 17 State law requires properties to be specifically identified when density is transferred. See Government Code §65863. 18 On page VI-9 of the 1996 General Plan. i9 On page VI-4 of the 1996 General Plan. 20 The Spotorno Flat itself would appear not to be subject to the 25% slope limitations of the Initiative, but its development could be impacted if the Initiative's application prohibited the construction of the Bypass Road as proposed by Greenbriar Homes. See discussion following. 8