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City of Pleasanton Downtown Specific Plan Draft Environmental Impact Report,Notice of Availability February 2019 Under the Proposed Plan, Main Street, Division Street between Main Street and Railroad Avenue,First Street,and Peters Avenue,would undergo streetscape changes that could alter the visual character and transportation patterns of these streets. The proposed Town Square District,which comprises the 9-acre existing civic center and the City-owned 4-acre site adjacent to the ACE station, would potentially undergo the most significant changes. Approval of the proposed relocation of the civic center and library is subject to a vote by the people of Pleasanton and is therefore not yet final. In the event that relocation of the civic center is approved, the Proposed Plan provides a vision and a conceptual land use plan for the redevelopment of the proposed Town Square District, developed with input from the community. The Proposed Plan assumes the site (with the exception of the existing Pleasanton Public Library Building, which would be repurposed) would develop with a combination of residential,retail,office,live/work,and hotel uses,as well as a new approximately 0.75 acre city park,known as the Town Square. The construction and operation of civic uses on the 318-acre, City-owned Bernal Property, including a cultural arts center,fire station,community center and environmental education center,was considered in the Bernal Property Phase II Specific Plan and Bernal Community Park Master Plan EIR (SCH# 2002052132), certified by the City in 2006. The DSP EIR evaluates at a programmatic level the potential environmental impacts that could result from the construction and operation of civic uses comparable to those analyzed in the Bernal Property Phase II EIR,including the relocated civic center and library described above. Other parts of the planning area, including the existing and largely built-out residential neighborhoods, and most of the area north of the Arroyo del Valle, are not anticipated to experience substantial change as a result of Proposed Plan implementation. Similarly, the Proposed Plan does not envision changes to existing downtown parks,planning for which has been completed under separate master plans, including the Downtown Parks and Trails System (2002) and the Master Plan for Lions Wayside and Delucchi Parks (2014),although the Plan anticipates adding one park in the new Town Square District. The Proposed Plan would also continue to support the long-term preservation and enhancement of the Arroyo del Valle, consistent with the General Plan Wildlands Overlay and Public Health and Safety land use designations,which preserve open space resources throughout the city. Planning Process The Downtown Specific Plan update process began in January 2017.Throughout the update process,City staff and the professional services team conducted outreach and met regularly with a 10-member Task Force consisting of City Council members,Planning Commissioners, representatives from Pleasanton Downtown Association and the City's Economic Vitality Committee,and at-large members appointed by City Council. The Task Force has provided guidance on the DSP's vision, options and alternatives for the transportation network, new uses for the existing civic center site,regulations for ground floor uses,a"base"land use plan, and corresponding set of strategies,and draft plan policies.The Proposed Plan was drafted in late 2018 based on feedback from the Task Force,input from the community,and guidance from City Council. 2 IR Planning Commission 2 of 5 eral Plan identifies land use compatibility standards for different land uses. For instance, noise levels between 60 and 75 decibels on the day-night equivalent level (Ldn) are considered conditionally acceptable in single-family residential