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Background information regarding the Draft Specific Plan and recommendations relating to process and schedule are outlined in the following report for consideration. Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND At its meeting of June 21, 2005, the Council approved the "Option 1" Preferred Plan for the 318-acre City-owned Phase II portion of the Bernal Property. This plan option was then used by City staff and consultants as the basis for updating both the May 13, 2002 Draft Phase II Specific Plan document prepared by the Bernal Property Task Force, as well as the Draft Bernal Community Park Master Plan prepared by the Bernal Community Park Task Force. The Preliminary Draft Phase II Specific Plan document (Attachment 2) was recently completed and reviewed for completeness by City staff prior to forwarding the Plan to Council for further direction at the upcoming meeting. In addition, a consultant contract with M. D. Fotheringham, Landscape Architects, to undertake the Draft Community Park Master Plan update is scheduled for Council consideration at the upcoming meeting under a separate agenda item. Finally, the Draft EIR for the Bernal Property is being prepared by City staff and consultants and is scheduled for completion in mid-January 2006. Current plans call for the Draft Phase II Specific Plan, Community Park Master Plan, and ErR to be processed concurrently through the formal public review process. This is scheduled to begin in January 2006, as outlined later in this report. BERNAL PLANNING PROCESS OVERVIEW Planning for the total combined 516-acre Bernal Property has been an on-going process for many years. For a variety of reasons, it has also become a somewhat complicated process. A summary of the various components of the planning process is outlined below to help simplifY and make the process easier to understand. General Plan The Pleasanton General Plan provides only limited site-specific guidance for the Bernal Property. Other than designating a community park for the Phase II area, the General Plan intentionally defers the more detailed planning to be completed through the specific plan process (see General Plan pages II-21 and II-37). The General Plan Map, for example, does not designate site-specific land use locations as it otherwise does for most other areas of the City, but instead it provides for a range of potential uses. Numerous General Plan policies of a more citywide nature, however, do apply to the Bernal Property, similar as the rest of the City, such as maintaining a level of SR 05:301 Page 2