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~„ 5. MATTERS CONTINUED FOR DECISION There were none. 6. PUBLIC HEARINGS AND OTHER MATTERS a. Review and Consideration of the Draft Environmental Imuact Resort for the Bernal Proaerty Phase II Specific Plan and the Bernal Community Park Master Plan Mr. Wayne Rasmussen noted that he was working on the Bernal Property project for the City and noted that Mr. John Dowden of Dowling & Associates helped to prepaze the traffic section of the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) and was subcontracted by the EIR consultant, Mundie & Associates. He noted that this presentation would begin the formal public review process of the Bernal Property Phase II Specific Plan document, the Community Park Master Plan document, and the combined EIR for those two plans. He noted that public comment would be taken with respect to the adequacy of the DEIR. Mr. Rasmussen noted that this was a complex project and a large property. He displayed the layout of the site and summarized the background and scope of this project. He noted that there were distinctively different plant communities intended to create an outdoor arboretum and that were common to the Tri-Valley azea: ripazian, other wetlands, oak savannah, oak forest, and several others that existed before human development took place in the azea. The landscape plan was intended to bring back those plant communities in various areas, such as the ripazian along the arroyo and other channels that would be enhanced or created. Wetland areas would be located neaz stormwater detention basins, and the oak savannah azea, consisting of primazily grasses and spazse oak trees, would be located in the meadow azeas. The forested areas would be a variety of different kinds of oaks. In addition to those plant communities, the land form will not be flat, and mounding and trails would be created. He noted that outdoor art could be threaded throughout the landscape. He noted that the azea to the west of the freeway would be almost all open space, with the exception of a potential Park-and-Ride lot/trail staging area. While the General Plan calls for a Pazk-and-Ride lot, he noted that the lot by Stoneridge Drive is not being used to a major extent. An environmental education center could be located across the way, as suggested by the Plan, to provide information that would relate to the rest of the site. He noted that the site contains Native American Reflective grounds and that some appropriate landscape treatment for this azea may be developed with the Ohlone Tribe. A 4-H Club may located neaz the freeway, with the possibility of having agricultural azeas azound it, for selling pumpkins or Christmas trees. Mr. Rasmussen noted that the Community Pazk Master Plan proposed three soccer fields including a small stadium and two other lighted soccer fields below it, and four baseball ,,..., fields -three lighted initially, and perhaps the fourth field to be lighted in the future. He PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES February 22, 2006 Page 3 of 21