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Bernal Community Park "Phase One" PUD Plan The "Initiative to Save our Community Park," approved by the City Council in July 2004, stipulates that "development of the first phase of the Community Park be given the highest reasonable priority." In an effort to address this provision, the City prepared and approved PUD development plans in July 2005 for "Phase One" of the Community Park that includes three baseball fields. Construction is scheduled to begin in the fall of2006. The Phase One site plan has been incorporated into both the Draft Phase II Specific Plan and the Draft Community Park Master Plan documents. No actions relating to the Phase One PUD Plan are requested in conjunction with the current project. PHASE II SPECIFIC PLAN Work on the Phase II Specific Plan began in December 2000 with the Council appointment of the Bernal Property Task Force. Following a series of public meetings, the Task Force completed its work on the original "Draft Bernal Property Phase II Specific Plan," dated May 13,2002. This draft was then the subject of a series of Council workshop meetings in 2003 and subsequently the Bernal National Design Competition ending in August 2004. Since that time, City staff and consultants, with direction from the Council, have merged various elements of the original Draft Phase II Plan, the winning Bernal Design Competition plan, City commission input, and substantial community input into the current Draft Phase II Specific Plan, dated January 2006 (Exhibit B). The vision for the Phase II Plan is to create an open space/park-like setting within which public and quasi-public uses and facilities are to be carefully integrated. The unifying landscape character is to become one of a "sustainable" open space arboretum. The underlying land use within which all future development is to be integrated consists of open space. Open space areas are to feature a coordinated system oflinkages including planted woodlands and meadows, restored and recreated channels, lakes and ponds, vegetated storm-water detention basins, other wetlands, trails, public art, and protected view corridors. Within this setting, a variety of public and quasi-public uses and facilities may be considered for development. Potentially permitted uses within the Phase II Plan Area are listed below. It is assumed that not all of these uses will ultimately be developed since the resulting developed acreage would probably overburden the desired overall open space/park-like character of the site. SR06:142 Page 4