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Pleasanton Gateway- Environmental Checklist 9. LAND USE PLANNING Environmental Setting The project site is 39.22 -acre vacant property in the Bernal Property Specific Plan area defined by Bernal Avenue, Valley Avenue, City parkland, and the I- 680 /Bernal Avenue exit ramp. The proposed project will amend the Bernal Property Specific Plan — which shall then amend the 2005 -- 2025 Pleasanton General Plan' — and will modify the Bernal Property PUD development plan to be provide consistency with the Specific Plan /General Plan' land use designation and applicable goals, policies, and programs. Standards of Significance For purposes of this environmental document, an impact is considered significant if the proposed project would: • Substantially alter an approved land use plan that would result in physical change to the environment. Less Than Significant Potentially Impact With Less Than Significant Mitigation Significant No Issues Impact Incorporated Impact Impact Land Use Planning Would the project: r a) Physically divide an established community? Li DT' b) Conflict with any applicable land use plan, policy or Li L LX1 regulation of an agency with jurisdiction over the project (including, but not limited to the general plan, specific plan, local coastal program, or zoning ordinance) adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect? c) Conflict with any applicable habitat conservation plan El 1 1 LA L or natural community conservation plan? Discussion a) The subject property is an infill site covered by the Bernal Property Specific Plan that created a planned, integrated community of residential, commercial, open space and civic uses and developments. The proposed project is designed to implement the overall land use goal of the Specific Plan — that the individual developments of the Specific Plan should work together visually and physically as an integrated whole — and implements the general design criteria for this site, including its frontage onto Bernal Avenue and Valley Avenue, and its relationship to the surrounding residential and open space areas of the Specific Plan. The proposed retail /commercial uses including the supermarket will provide a combination of goods and "walk -in" services for the nearby business park and Page 39 of 52 Pleasanton Gateway Initial Study August 2, 2010