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these sports fields in. He wanted to make sure that Council is not recommending to the designers to put something in a certain location and only to discover later that the sports fields cannot be built in that location without further action by the voters. Mr. Roush said that in order to build something outside of what is designated Phase I community park, the Specific Plan currently provides that it has to go to a vote of the people. Mr. Brozosky said perhaps the initiative authors could talk about that when they address Council and perhaps suggest a way this issue could be resolved. His understanding is that this initiative actually defines the area within which the community park must reside. Anything outside of that area would not be considered "the community park" as defined by the Phase I Specific Plan. Mr. Roush thought that the way in which the initiative is proposed, at least as he reads it, limits Council's discretion for other park uses outside of the Phase I area, but that it must be integrated with what is currently in the Specific Plan that Phase II uses are to go to a vote of the people. Mr. Brozosky wanted to make sure Council did not have something that goes to the design competition that is not what it wanted to do. Mayor Pico said Council could get all tangled up in whether or not parts of the sports fields that it wants to build or see built fit within the 800-feet or outside of the 800- feet or within the cross-hatched area or not. Maybe he was being premature, but he wanted to let the public know where he was coming from. He absolutely wants to see a design competition happen. He believed the original motion that Council adopted, and the way the design competition is anticipated to proceed will allow for the two baseball fields to be built, and be included as a minimum in one of the plans. It appeared to him that plan potentially conflicts with the initiative. He is absolutely willing to refine the design competition so that it would include the concept that the initiative proponents have proposed and that the community park and sports fields, all be within that 800-foot area in whatever design was appropriate. Mr. Brozosky said he was after the same thing. Mayor Pico said he would go further, to say that Council should ask that the entire concept, ail of the fields, be part of at least one plan and not just two fields so that if the initiative passes, Council does not have a conflict and it can pick a plan that works. Further, he was willing to support putting the initiative on the ballot without the people having to go out and collect signatures. He wanted the design competition to continue so that the community can have some options to look at come the November election. If Council wanted to go ahead and approve a plan that incorporates all of the initiative proponents' recommendations and have an additional concept, Council can do so. He did not see that this had to be a battle of opposing forces in the City. He was more than willing to strike a compromise and to move fonvard. He was willing to let the initiative Pleasanton City Council 8 03/02/04 Minutes