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The City Council is pulling back--at least for a while--on a plan to buy land in the hillsides and preserve it as open space.

Council members said there aren’t enough details to sustain the passage of the proposed $140 million in bonds, which would be used to purchase an unspecified number of acres.

Mayor Bev Perry said the city had been working quickly to establish the best financial methods to gather up to that amount of money, but she didn’t feel local voters would approve the bonds without knowing specifically what the money would be used for.