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Bemal Property. The City has some experience with this because near the downtown there is a stream with massive oak trees, redwood, basketball courts, tot lot and acres of grass. This has co-existed with Kottinger Place Senior Housing for the last 30 years. There are also OrloffPark and Creekside Park set among other houses. The two concepts can go together. As earlier pointed out, not all acreage is acreage that can be developed and build things on. We are guaranteed to have some open spaces. He felt this could be done and urged Councilmembers to give it some serious consideration. Jeff Renholtz, 7489 Aster Court, discussed the steps the City is taking with this process. There will be an election in November and on the ballot will be an initiative called the "Citizen's Initiative." The staff process includes ratification, which is to ratify what the Task Fome has done. This might or might not be on the November ballot, and if not on this upcoming election, it must be on a general election ballot. If this is not on the 2002 ballot, what are implications from the Citizen's Initiative and how does this impact what can and cannot be done. Secondly, is there was a specific timeline? Thirdly, is the Citizen's Initiative a Specific Plan? Fourth, after the approval of the Specific Plan, what kind of changes are permitted and would those then have to be voted on? Mr. Swift responded by talking about the possibility of Phase Two land uses getting on a future ballot. Until that happens, the only things that could be developed or built on the Bernal Property would be those land uses that were incorporated into the Phase One plan, e.g., the community park, the fire station and the neighborhood park component of the oak knoll area. Those could move forward as Council wishes, however no other land uses could be established until there is a vote. The Citizen's Initiative is structured as a specific plan amendment to the Phase One Specific Plan and it is, in fact, a specific plan. It adopts new policies that are added to the Specific Plan. There would be no modification of those policies without another vote of the people, if it were to pass. It has a number of policies that would take effect, assuming it was adopted in November, upon its adoption. The one that prohibits residential development would not really come to pass because you couldn't put any residential development until you do the next phase, The Phase Two Plan. The policies with respect to leasing or selling City property would take effect immediately and would then govern and could be changed by the electorate. He didn't feel this would cause any problems for the City to establish any of the parks or the fire station. Ms. Micbelotti asked Mr. Swift to repeat the specific plan portion of his explanation, and asked if it was a specific plan amendment to Phase One, and only Phase One. Phase One included just the community park and the private development. Mr. Swift said the Phase One Specific Plan includes policies that apply over all the Bernal Property. The Initiative policies would apply over the City owned property on the Bemal Property. Ms. Michelotti asked if the things that would take effect, if passed, was that the land could not be sold and housing would be precluded on all of the public property. Pleasanton City Council 13 06/04/02 Minutes