Livermore's Vision 2010 plan is opposed the Sierra Club, which is offering it's own plan. Both would change urban growth boundaries.
Livermore City Council may place the Tri Valley Business Council's Vision 2010 measure on the November ballot despite objections by the Sierra Club that it does not demonstrate wide support and would undermine their competing open-space initiative. Both initiatives would mandate county voter approval in order to change county urban-growth boundaries, although they differ in respect to rural development.
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