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Revision of the EPSP and EIR to include the 1,300-unit plan and the number of alternatives identified above was not included in the initial consultant contract, as amended, and will require a substantial amount of additional work. Therefore, the consultant team will require additional budget to implement these out-of-scope tasks. DISCUSSION The EPSP and Draft FIR are tentatively planned for publication in Spring 2015, after community meetings are held and Council discusses the documents. Staff is seeking the Council's comments on the Preliminary Draft EPSP, which was revised to include the base plan consisting of 1,300 single-family residential units with no multi-family housing. Other minor modifications, including the refinement of the plan design guidelines, were also incorporated into the Preliminary Draft EPSP. Staff is also seeking confirmation of the EIR alternatives (listed above) that were identified by the EPSP Task Force on August 7, 2014. The purpose of the alternatives analysis in the EIR is to allow for a meaningful comparison of alternative development scenarios in the context of the proposed plan. The alternatives to be considered must be reasonable, be feasible, and accomplish most of the basic objectives of the plan. In addition, not every potential alternative need be considered — only a reasonable range that will allow for careful consideration of the plan's environmental impacts. In September 2012, the City Council authorized the City Manager to enter into a Professional Services Agreement with Rasmussen Planning and Gates + Associates to prepare the EPSP. The budget totaled $751,766. In February 2014, the City Council authorized the City Manager to execute a First Amendment to the initial Agreement, which added $58,750 to the contract in order to undertake out-of-scope work requested by the Task Force and decision-makers, including financial feasibility, infrastructure, and fiscal analyses, and to allow the consultant team to attend additional meetings. A Second Amendment to the Agreement was approved on August 27, 2014 to extend the expiration of the contract to September 1, 2015. Since that time, as noted above, the EPSP Task Force requested modifications to the Preliminary Draft EPSP (including the inclusion of a new base plan) and developed a new list of alternatives to be evaluated in the EPSP EIR. Staff is now seeking approval of a Third Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement in the amount of $116,624 to allow the consultant team to undertake the additional out-of-scope work requested by the EPSP Task Force (Attachment 1): • Revise EPSP to incorporate 1,300-unit base plan; • Revise EIR to incorporate 1,300-unit base plan and alternatives identified by the Task Force; and • Undertake associated technical work, including analysis of traffic, noise, air quality, and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the plan and alternatives, and revise the plan and EIR graphics. Page 3 of 4