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Primary access to the site is from Hearst Drive, a residential collector street that connects to Bernal Avenue and serves the Kottinger Ranch subdivision. There is also an emergency only access to the site from the Grey Eagle Estates subdivision to the north via an easement to the City. III. PROPOSAL The following is a summary of the "Project Description" section of the June 13tH Planning Commission staff report (pp. 7- 11), attached. Proposed Site Design Figure 2, on the following page, is an exhibit from the Draft EIR, which shows the proposed lots, open space area, stockpile areas, major drainage courses/habitat areas, existing and proposed detention basins, existing and proposed water tanks, and the Urban Growth Boundary Line. Since the Planning Commission public hearing, the applicant has revised the development plan proposal to include the fire access road to the Kottinger Ranch tank site. Local and regional trails and the trail staging area exhibits are shown on separate exhibits (p. 47J in the June 13tH Planning Commission staff report. The site plan also shows the preliminary grading limit line for the development depicting the initial mass grading required to develop the project. Additional individual lot grading may occur as homes lots are built. The proposed site plan includes the following features: The applicant proposes to develop an approximately 66-acre portion -including streets and building sites - of the 562-acre property into 51 custom lots varying from 30,290 square feet to 90,834 square feet in area, and arranged along the extension of Hearst Drive. An emergency vehicle access connection would be provided at the north property line to the public access/public service easement on the adjacent Grey Eagle Estates subdivision property, and a fire access road to the existing City water tank and water tank access road would be provided from Benedict Court. • The applicant will dedicate the remaining 496 acres of land to the City of Pleasanton (or to a Geologic Hazard Abatement District, the board of directors of which will be the City Council) as permanent open space in perpetuity. Over this permanent open space would be an open space conservation easement to an independent third party such as the Tri-Valley Conservancy. The open space area will provide wildlife habitat preservation areas, a system of regional and local public trails including a trail staging area, tree reforestation of the slopes facing the existing developments to the north, fire break areas, and detention/settlement basins serving the proposed development. • A trail staging area owned and operated by the City will be located near the planned water tank at the juncture of the regional and local trails. It will include parking, restrooms, a horse trough, and a drinking fountain. The trails would be generally accessible to pedestrians, bicyclists, and equestrians. Page 5 of 27