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far west past the ridge line and her biggest concern was about the potential of another 104 houses in this environmentally sensitive area. She would like all the homes west of Foothill Road to disappear so it was like it was thirty years ago. There are aesthetic, economic, and environmental reasons for not allowing any more homes to be built in that area. The most serious concern is the financial liability to the City due to the unstable soils and landslide areas in addition to the Calaveras Fault. She asked if all the lands above 670 feet could be redesignated as open space/agriculture for public health and safety. Pat Nelson, 8088 Bethel Lane, referred to the Ruby Hill area that has been beautifully done and sits in front of some beautiful foothills on the other side of the valley. She quoted from the design guidelines, which stated the intent was not to dictate specific architectural styles but rather to provide guidelines to make the community a more attractive place for all. The guidelines encouraged individual architectural statements that when viewed together created a pleasant rural environment. Designs were to be customized for each home site to take advantage of natural features that exist. She felt Ruby Hill was a beautiful community with a wide variety of styles. There is an architectural review committee that makes sure every home conforms to the guidelines and each home is a particular style, complete accurate representation with the roof pitch and the siding materials, and even landscape that complete the home site to be an actual, historical type of docnment. There are no guidelines that set forth a certain pitch, color, or texture. When all the landscaping grows up, most of the homes will not be visible from the frontage road, just as most of the homes on Foothill will not be visible. Ruby Hill is a beautiful, diverse community. When she and her husband bought their lot, they heard discussion about the requirements on architectare and the desire that Foothill Road would be similar to a drive through Cannel, where the homes would be spaced out in rural character and each home would be an individual statement. What has happened to that vision? Where does the desire that every home is brown with a flat roof come from? This is saying the area will be full of 50's ranch houses. All the proposed guidelines allow are low pitched roofs, horizontal siding and darker toned paint. Where is this coming from? In all the controversy over her home, not one asked for any restriction on the homes or asked Council to make them all brown and flat roofed. If Ruby Hill has guidelines that require every home to be a special, historically correct architecture with individuality and it is a gorgeous community, where is this direction coming from that the west side of Pleasanton should be full of ugly, flat roofed, brown buildings? She felt we should return to the original vision and the goal should be a beautiful blending of a variety of individual architecture that reflects all the diversity of the people. Ralli Glenn, 10 Tehan Canyon Road, indicated she has worked to oppose the Pleasanton Ridgeland development. She felt she and others have given Pleasanton citizens the right to decide the merit of the development proposed in Measure K. She felt this current overlay proposal should be put to a vote of the citizens of Pleasanton. Phil Rowe, Delco Builders, indicated he had concerns about the Lemoine PUD. He felt his plan was consistent with both the existing overlay district guidelines and the intent of the new ove~ay district guidelines. He asked if the new rules applied to Pleasanton City Council 23 Minutes 04/04/00