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community park along Bernal to provide open space and placing the affordable housing on the property now designated for school property and behind the existing development. There are so many wants and needs for this property. She would really like to see open space for a long time. She acknowledged the amount of work that has gone into this plan, but she would really like to see the land preserved for school facilities re-examined. She supported affordable housing in the community. Bonnie Krichbaum, 303 Neal Street, would like to see all this property as a park. She has been to Lithia Park, Bidwell Park in Chico, and Golden Gate Park. She referred to the museums, specialty gardens, and other special interest areas in Golden Gate Park and felt this property could be similarly developed with a cultural arts center, 4-H land and other specialty areas to meet the needs of people in town. The entire area should be park-like with grass, trees, and paths. With regard to sports parks and affordable housing, she believed the City can find land in other areas. The Bemal property is a special area close to downtown. She felt downtown is already impacted with traffic and needs more parks and open space. Christine Bourg, 4512 Second Street, indicated she had served on the last General Plan Steering Committee and is liaison to the Community Park Task Force. She believed the proposal for the Bemal Avenue Community Park is too heavily slanted toward formal sports. He vision was for something more like a mini-Golden Gate Park or Lithia Park. She agreed land could be found in other places for affordable housing or sports parks, but there is not enough space to have a contiguous park. The plan has great open spaces, but they are spread out and there is not a big area of green. If you add the school property later, it may look more piecemeal than it should if it were planned to be one large park to begin with. If Council tries to meet everyone's needs with that long list of desires, it may mm out that no one's needs are satisfied. It may be necessary to present several plans to the citizens to see if they really want open space or do they want the other things, because you can't have it all. Dave Melander, 7988 Limewood Court, said he appreciated the work Council does and what it is trying to accomplish with this plan is significant. He is a member of the Pleasanton Gardens Board and the YMCA Board, so he has several points of view. He wanted to comment on the area set aside for the private youth club/community center. He echoed the comments of Mr. Fiedler and Mr. Berrigan and felt the center would allow people to have places to meet. That is one thing that is missing from Pleasanton: a place for people to meet outside of school without having to pay rent. The YMCA would provide programs and places for people to meet. He hoped that a facility like the YMCA would provide an indoor swimming pool that is shallow so seniors and others could use it for aerobics. This has been a fantastic discussion and will be on-going for some time. There being no further speakers the hearing was closed. Ms. Dennis referred to the comments about the train station and felt the big issue of moving the station was the access and traffic to the station. She had no problem moving it. She felt if a more definite determination regarding the forty acres for the school facility could be made, it would give more flexibility to revise or move various uses. She loved the Lithia Park idea for development of the peripheral park area on the west side and linking to the detention Pleasanton City Council 16 01 / 15/02 Minutes