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The Council then conducted six public workshops in 2003. At the sixth workshop in December 2003, it decided to sponsor a design competition for the 318-acre City-owned portion of the Bernal Property prior to completing its input on the Draft Phase II Plan. The design competition was held between March and August 2004. M.D. Fotheringham, Landscape Architects (MDF) was ultimately chosen as the winning design firm by the Council on August 31, 2004. Two City contracts were soon after awarded to MDF in October. The first was to provide professional design assistance for updating the Draft Phase II Specific Plan, and the second was to prepare detailed site and landscape design plans for the Phase I Community Park Sports Fields. The current step in the Draft Phase II Specific Plan update process calls for the City staff and consultants to merge the MDF design competition concept with input provided by the Council, City commissions, Community Park Task Force, community and staff, and to revise the Draft Specific Plan accordingly. MDF and staff have initiated this step by developing five site plan alternatives for Council review and comments. Workshops regarding the resulting Unified Conceptual Plan by the Civic Arts, Youth, Parks and Recreation, and Planning commissions are scheduled to follow. This step is to conclude next May with the completion of the Draft Phase II Specific Plan update by staff and with the Council providing direction for staff to proceed with the preparation of the appropriate environmental documents and formal public hearing process. During the public hearing process that follows, the updated Draft Specific Plan will first be subject to review and comment by various City commissions. This will be followed by public hearings on the Draft Plan and environmental documents by the Planning Commission and Council. Following Council approval, the Specific Plan will be subject to ratification by a vote of the citizens. The Planning Department is responsible for preparing the Phase II Specific Plan and environmental documents and coordinating the public review process. Wayne Rasmussen (formally Principal Planner for the City and now private consultant) has been retained by the City to serve as the Draft Specific Plan update coordinator. MDF is under contract with the City to provide specific plan level design services throughout the update and public hearing processes. MDF will be primarily responsible for providing assistance with regard to site planning and the preparation of design guidelines. STATUS OF PHASE I SPORTS FIELDS PROCESS On April 29, 2003, the Parks and Recreation Commission reviewed four possible scenarios for the development of the Phase I Sports Fields for Bemal Community Park, as designed by RRM Design Group. After consideration and discussion of the various phasing plans, the Commission approved an option that included two lighted baseball fields, an access road and other related infrastructure, parking, restroom facility, and tot lot area, all for an estimated design and construction cost of approximately $4.3 million. It was following that approval, however, that the City Council embarked upon the professional design competition for the Bemal Property in SR05:010 Page 3