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Department of Planning and Community Development, 200 Old Bernal Avenue, City of Pleasanton, Pleasanton, CA 94566-0802, Contact: Marion Pavan, Project Planner (925) 931-5600. II. PROPOSED PROJECT The EIR analyzes the original project proposal as a residential development of a 98- unit, custom home development (Original Project). The EIR also analyzed four other alternatives for this proposed project, one of which is referred to as "Alternative 4", a 51-unit development plan. Through a collaborative process with the neighbors, city staff, and the applicant an alternative was developed, Alternative 4, reflecting numerous design changes to the original proposal. This development plan is the environmentally superior alternative because the environmental impacts are reduced when compared to the impacts of the originally proposed 98-lot development. The environmentally superior project consists of 51 home sites for custom homes with all development occurring on approximately 66 acres of the 562-acre site. Residential sites would be located primarily where impacts were found to be less significant and designed to preserve more woodland area by reducing the number of trees that would be impacted (58 mature trees of the 12,000 trees on site), protecting seasonal drainage ways and valley bottoms, which include areas of Federal jurisdiction, and/or supporting important vegetation and wildlife resources. These areas remain mostly free of development and/or development impacts due to the plan revision lessening the number of homesites from 98 to 51. III. BACKGROUND The Oak Grove project site, owned by the Lin family, was annexed to the City of Pleasanton on December 31, 1991. The current proposal, a Planned Unit Development for a project called "Oak Grove," is the second project proposal. The first, "Kottinger Hills," was proposed in 1992. That project included 122 single-family detached "production" homes in a conventional subdivision in the south-central area of the interior of the site, a 266-acre, 18-hole golf course and approximately 237 acres of open space proposed for dedication to the City. The 1992 Kottinger Hills PUD was approved by the Pleasanton City Council in October, 1992, with the housing unit count reduced to 86 homes but with the golf course and open space retained. The approval was rescinded in a referendum election on November 2, 1993. Public Review Process The City of Pleasanton prepared and circulated a notice of preparation (NOP) for an environmental impact report (EIR) on December 4, 2003. The NOP provided a brief description of the proposed Plan and a brief summary of potential environmental impacts. The NOP was distributed to agencies, the general public, and other concerned Page 2 of 43