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City-appointed member of the Board of Directors, Mary Roberts, or otherwise interested in this issue), persons with land use decision making experience (such as former members of the City's Planning Commission or Parks & Recreation Commission), or property owners in the portions of Pleasanton within the Tri-Valley Conservancy's regional scope. The Tri-Valley Conservancy at its inception had two at-lazge members of its Board of Directors. When the Tri-Valley Conservancy expanded its regional scope in 2002 to also include portions of Dublin, San Ramon and Sunol, it added two additional at-large members to its Boazd. This nine person board is of a size that members of the Board each have a significant voice in policy and decision-making, while providing diversity to give insight regarding specific areas within the organization's regional scope. The Tri-Valley Conservancy has also demonstrated prudent governance of its organization by retaining experienced staff, but keeping the number of staff low, so that resources can be focused on the organization's mission to protect and preserve acreage within its regional scope. Protection of the Public Interest by Stewazdshio of Conservation Easements. The City of Pleasanton has direct experience with the Tri-Valley Conservancy's stewardship of conservation easements, both viticulture easements, as well as open space easements. When the City developed its own Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan in 1999 (hereafter the "Specific Plan"), to establish land use planning objectives for the eastern azea of the City adjacent to the South Livermore Area Land Plan, three of the requirements imposed on land owners within the Specific Plan seeking development entitlements include: For areas within the Specific Plan designated for viticulture uses, the land owner is required to plant and maintain vineyazds on the areas covered by an Agricultural Land Conservation Easement (subject to limited exceptions that instead allowed alternative crops); 2. For areas within the Specific Plan too steep for viticulture uses or other development, the land owner is required to dedicate an Open Space Easement; and 3. For land being developed with a slope of less than 25%, which was deemed suitable for agriculture, the land owner is required to pay an agricultural mitigation fee to compensate for the cultivatable acres being developed. The Tri-Valley Conservancy has a critical role in the success of the Specific Plan, and particulazly these three requirements described above. For the Agricultural Land Conservation Easements, while the property owner dedicates these easements to the City, the Tri-Valley Conservancy is also a formal third-party beneficiary.