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CHAPTER 3 THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW PROCESS Before Pleasanton's annexation of the Bernal Property in the year 2001, plans for develop- ment of the site had been prepared, under Alameda County's planning umbrella as well as under the direction of the City of Pleasanton, in both cases with input provided by the property owner, the City and County of San Francisco, CEQA documents on these previous plans provide an information base for all subsequent planning and environmental analysis, Earlier CEQA documents that addressed the Bernal Property as a whole are described below in Subpart 1; Subpart 2 describes how the CEQA history of the site shapes the scope of the current EIR, 1. Previous Planning for the Site a. Pleasanton General Plans, 1986 and 1996 Pleasanton elected officials and staff, aware of San Francisco's planning activity relating to the Bernal Property, pursued parallel planning efforts through the 1980s and 1990s. Pleasanton planning policy had previously addressed the Bernal Property, including designa- tion for future industrial use, That designation was replaced by the designation "San Francisco Specific plan" in the 1986 General Plan (The Pleasanton Plan, 1986, p, 11-40), On the 1986 General Plan map, potential designations for the Bernal Property included residen- tial (mixed medium and high density), commercial (retail and/or office), institutional (future school), and parks and recreation, Designation of the Bernal Property as a site for which a Specific Plan should be prepared prompted consultation between Pleasanton and representatives of San Francisco on a conceptual plan, This conceptual plan, which was shaped by a Pleasanton Citizen Steering Committee, was presented to the City Council in March, 1993, However, the conceptual plan did not progress to the draft Specific Plan stage and no EI R was prepared, Work on the plan was put aside in anticipation of the completion of the 1996 Pleasanton General Plan update that was then under way, With the completion and adoption of the 1996 update, the General Plan status of the Bernal Property remained as it had been in the 1986 General Plan: a Specific Plan area awaiting further planning, b. Alameda County's Bernal Property Plan and EIR, 1995-96 Alameda County worked with representatives of the City and County of San Francisco for several years in the early 1990s to prepare a plan for the Bernal Property, The outcome of that planning effort was an application for development, including a specific plan for the site, filed with the County in September, 1994, The plan and the Draft EIR on the plan were 19