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and directed that nine plan other alternatives be evaluated in the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the draft specific plan, ranging from an alternative allowing for no development, to an alternative containing 1,430 single-family and multi-family residential units. A Draft EIR for the EPSP was published in April 2015 and was followed by three community meetings to receive input on the draft specific plan and Draft EIR. These neighborhood meetings were widely attended by residents throughout the City. Several of the residents at the neighborhood meetings expressed concern about moving forward with the specific plan process, due to the ongoing drought and impacts to traffic and school capacity, and because the EPSP's development was not required to meet the City's RHNA. In June 2015, the City Council decided to stop the East Pleasanton Specific Plan planning and environmental review process and directed that the specific plan be considered as part of future City Council priority setting deliberations. Current EPSP Work Program After the EPSP process was paused, there continued to be active interest from two major property owners in developing properties within East Pleasanton. In 2017, for example, the City received a preliminary application for development of a commercial project on a property near El Charro Road/Arroyo Mocho; as well as a development application for an approximately 1.29 million square foot complex of industrial buildings at 3000 Busch Road (located directly east of the existing Pleasanton Garbage Service Transfer station). There was also interest in 2017 for industrial development on the approximately 50-acre Kiewit property located at the intersection of Valley Avenue and Busch Road. In 2018, Alameda County also received and began processing an application for a 208-unit residential development on a site east of the Village at Ironwood and the City's OSC. Staff was not supportive of any of these applications, noting that outside of a comprehensive planning effort for East Pleasanton, there would be no assurance that development would be well-coordinated, carefully planned, or able to deliver critical infrastructure and public amenities such as a school site or the extension of El Charro Road. In light of these circumstances, in early 2019 the City Council directed that re-initiation of the EPSP Planning Process should be included as a priority in the 2019-20 Work Plan. At around the same time, Ponderosa Homes, a Pleasanton-based developer, entered into a contract with Kiewit to purchase its property, and an agreement with USL to process entitlements and, once entitled, purchase that property. With those interests in mind, Ponderosa would take the lead in working with the City of Pleasanton to advance the EPSP. Page 3 of 8