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Chapter 3 The Environmental Review Process This planning concept was memorialized in a formal Phase I Specific Plan prepared in 1998, This Plan, mapped in Figure 44 in the 1997/2000 Bernal Property Final EIR, distinguishes areas subject to the construction of private buildings from areas to be devoted to public use, This division of the Bernal Property into private and public areas bears a close resemblance to the partition of lands that was subsequently accomplished: the 198 acres of land desig- nated for private development were purchased by Greenbriar Homes Communities (GHC- Bernal Investors) and the City of Pleasanton acquired by dedication the 318 acres of land designated for public and open space use, After the Specific Plan document was published, completion of the Final EI R followed, with publication in March, 1999, Certification of the EIR in February, 2000 preceded adoption of the Specific Plan, The Bernal Property was annexed by Pleasanton on April 23, 2001, 2. Applicability of Previous CEQA Documents As noted above, previous CEQA documents had been prepared addressing the Bernal Property site: Alameda County's EI R (1995-96) and Pleasanton's EI R on the annexation of the Bernal property (1995), These served as information sources for Pleasanton's 1997-2000 CEQA review, which includes the following documents2: . Bernal Property Specific Plan Draft Environmental Impact Report, published May, 1977; . Bernal Property Specific Plan Final Environmental Impact Report, certified February, 2000; . Bernal Property Specific Plan Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan, adopted Sep- tember, 2000; and . Findings Related to Environmental Review and Project Approval, September, 2000. The 1997/2000 EI R on the Bernal Property is a comprehensive document that covers the entire S16-acre Bernal site, It is the foundation CEQA document for subsequent environ- mental analysis of projects on the Bernal site: . The Setting sections in the 1997/2000 EIR provide for each topic an assessment of resources and conditions that remains the best source of information on the site, . The Impacts and Mitigation Measures sections in the 1997/2000 EIR remain substan- tially applicable, because the impacts identified and evaluated covered the entire Bernal Property, including the Phase II area that Pleasanton is now planning to develop for public use (as well as those already developed under private ownership). The Bernal Property Phase II Specific Plan EIR therefore builds on the 1997/2000 EIR, In particular, the descriptions of the site and the setting remain largely applicable, in most cases requiring only minimal updating. Therefore, this EIR briefly summarizes setting infor- mation presented in the Phase I EIR and, in some cases, incorporates portions of the earlier 2 These CEQA documents cover the Specific Plan; a Development Agreement between the City of Pleasanton and GHC [Greenbriar Homes Communities] Bernal Investors, LLC; Prezoning; Planned Unit Development; and other related actions. 21