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- ~ ; ~~-- ," ~._>... History Of Bernal Property Planning Planning for the Bernal Property has been an ongoing process for many years. The Phase I Specific Plan provides a comprehensive history of the site starting in the 1930s and extending to the adoption of the Phase I Specific Plan on August 21, 2000. Since that time, substantial land development and infrastructure improvements have been completed in accordance with the Phase I Plan. . In December 2000, the Pleasanton City Council formed an 18 member Bernal Property Task Force to coordinate the preparation of the Draft Phase II Specific Plan. The Task Force undertook its work over a 1-1/2 year period of time through an extensive background information gathering process that included numerous detailed reports by Task Force members, local organizations, individuals, and City staff and consultants. A total of 22 regular meetings, field trips and town meetings were conducted during this time. The Task Force then formulated its recommendations which are contained in the original "Draft Bernal Property Phase II SpeCific Plan" document dated May 13,2002. The project was then temporarily put on hold by the City Council pending a community vote a citizens' initiative known as "Measure V" (Appendix 1) in November 2002. Measure V was subsequently approved. It was primarily intended to mandate permanent retention of the Phase II Planning Area under ownership by the City of Pleasanton, and to prohibit the construction of housing within the 318-acre Phase II Area. The Task Force's Draft Phase II Plan was then referred to the City Council for preliminary review prior to initiation of the formal public hearing process, - The Council then conducted six public workshop meetings in 2003. At the sixth workshop, the Council decided to sponsor a national design competition for the Phase II Planning Area prior to completing its input on the Task Force's Draft Phase II SpeCific 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, and soon after became the City's design consultant to assist in updating the Draft Phase II Specific Plan. Also in August 2004, the City Council adopted a second citizens' initiative known as the "Initiative to Save Our Community Park." Its purpose was to ensure that the City move forward in a expeditious manner to plan and develop the "30- to 50-acre" Bernal Community Park in the eastern portion of the Phase II SpeCific Plan Area, and that the City not approve any uses in the vicinity of the Community Park that might potentially be incompatible with park uses. Following this initiative in November 2004, the citizens passed the "Bernal Property Right to Vote Initiative" (Measure X) that mandates that the Bernal Property Phase II land use plan be subject to a vote of the citizens. The City staff and consultants then merged the MDF design competition concept plan with input provided by the Council, City commissions, Bernal Property Task Force, community and staff, along with the requirements of the "Initiative to Save Our Community Park" (Appendix 2). This Phase II Specific Plan was the result of that effort. Introduction SI