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at a May 16, 2006 City Council meeting during which the Council approved the planning documents, including an "Illustrative Site Plan" that identified specific uses for various areas of the Bernal property. The May 16, 2006 City Council meeting is important in relation to a dog park as it was at this meeting that the Council considered recommendations from the Planning Commission, Parks and Recreation Commission and the Youth Master Plan Implementation Committee to amend the Bernal Specific Plan/ Illustrative Site Plan to include a dog park. The Park and Recreation Commission's recommendation was the most specific in that it stated "add a 1/4 to 1/2 acre dog park to the Bernal Specific Plan's Illustrative Site Plan in an area located away from the railroad tracks." The addition of a dog park was also detailed in the agenda report as a decision issue. During the course of the May 16 meeting, Mayor Hosterman requested input regarding the addition of a dog park, but its inclusion was rejected by the City Council. As such, the final Bernal Specific Plan/ Illustrative Plan was approved without a dog park. Following this action, the City Council placed the Bernal Specific Plan on the November 6, 2006 general election as Measure P where it was subsequently approved by the voters. At the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting on October 10, 2013, the Commission reviewed the Schematic Plan for the Oak Woodland area of the Bernal Property and expressed general approval of the overall plan, however asked staff as to why an off-leash dog area was not included in the Plan. In response, staff expressed that inclusion of a dog park on the Bernal Community Park or Oak Woodland would be inconsistent with the Bernal Specific Plan adopted by the voters. As a result, the Commission elected not to take action on the plan pending further review of the potential for including of a dog park as part of this phase of Bernal Property development. Notwithstanding the above, following the Commission's October 10, 2013 meeting, staff received an email from Chairperson Streng requesting additional clarification regarding opportunities and restrictions related to siting a dog park on the Bernal Property. A summary of the requested clarification is "how is the inclusion of a dog park in the Community Park prohibited by Measure P particularly when the Bernal Park Master Plan the Specific Plan states that other uses may be approved by the City Council?" In addition to the information detailed above, there are actually two dimensions to this question. First, the potential for including a dog park within the 318 acre Bernal Specific Plan area and second, including a dog park within the 50 acres designated for the Bernal Community Park. Regarding the Bernal Community Park area, the adopted Bernal Park Master Plan includes a listing of facilities/uses that are included in the Plan's Master Site Plan (Attachment 2) and this list includes a dog park. However, the list is not intended to be general but is specifically intended to highlight the facilities/uses included in the Master Site Plan which does not include a dog park. Staffs position is that the inclusion of a dog park in this list (Attachment 2) is a document editing oversight that may be related to a previous draft Master Site Plan (Attachment 3) that included a dog park. However, the dog park was eliminated from the Illustrative Plan prior to the City Council's May 6 action and as indicated above, the Council rejected recommendations from various commissions to include one in the final document. Further, Page 3