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Chapter 3 The Environmental Review Process types of golf facilities); only one use ranked lower,5 Golf, though an open space use, is not a public use that is supported by the community for the Bernal Property, . Residential, Measure V (citizens' initiative, November 2002; see Draft Specific Plan Appendix 1) mandates the permanent retention of the Bernal Property Phase II plan- ning area under ownership by the City of Pleasanton and prohibits construction of housing within the 318-acre area, With residential rendered legally infeasible and golf rendered politically infeasible, the key differences between the phase I and Phase II plans have been eliminated, Therefore, in the alternatives comparison in Chapter V, Alternative 3 is discussed narratively. b. Alternative 4: No Development This alternative ("existing condition") addresses the site as it currently is and serves as the starting point for the environmental analysis, c. Alternative Project Site A different type of alternative would be the selection of a different site, In this particular case, an alternative site does not represent a feasible alternative, Pleasan- ton owns the land that the Phase II Specific Plan addresses, The uses proposed are, in some cases, not appropriate to any other site (e,g" the Knoll open space must be at the Knoll; the open space along the Arroyo de la Laguna, and particularly the Native American Reflective Area, represent resources unique to the site; the sportsfields are particularly suitable to the level areas on the Bernal property: etc,), Therefore, no alternative site for the Bernal Property Phase II Specific Plan is evaluated, d. Specific Plan Alternatives Summary Table 3 (p, 30) presents a summary of the alternatives considered in this EIR, The array of uses for the project and Alternatives 1 and 2 are generally similar though some uses are differently assigned to sub-areas, For Alternative 3 (the Phase I Specific Plan), uses in some sub-areas were left open in order to allow the Phase II plan to encompass the set of uses determined by the Phase II planning process to be of community interest.6 5 Bernal Property Phase II Specific Plan, Preliminary Draft of May 13, 2002 (last page): Potential Public and QuaSi-Public land Uses as Prioritized by the Bernal Property Task Force. The lowest-ranking use was a conference center. 6 The land use categories that allowed flexibility in the Phase II planning effort carried the labels Optional Residential, Potential Golf Course, and Phase II - Interim Open Space. In all of these flexible categories, some of the uses included in the Phase II array are public uses. While the Phase 1 1997{2000 EIR did not initially envision the possibility of Pleasanton's acquiring the site for public uses, the land use categories of the Phase I Specific Plan are sufficiently broad to encompass the array of uses Pleasanton proposes in the Phase II Draft Specific Plan. 29