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Mr. Fotheringham shared the same concern. He noted that the topography in the 50-acre Community Park is anywhere from eight to ten feet, the fields are Iow, and the public areas and streets are up. In response to an inquiry by Mr. Brozosky, Mr. Fotheringham said the cultural arts center needs to be slightly higher than street level to keep it out of the flood plane. This places the cultural arts center 10 feet above the water level in the basin even if a 3ermanent water body were created. Mr. Brozosky believed that the process for the Bernal Property has provided a s~gnificant opportunity for the community to provide feedback to the Council. He did not believe Council was shortcircuiting public input. Mr. Sullivan disagreed with Mr. Brozosky. He asked if the Commissions could have staff work with them to flesh out the details for the proposed uses. Mayor Hosterman mentioned that there is detailed information pertaining to the wetlands. She asked staff to provide copies of this information to Council. Mr. Rasmussen said that staff and the consultants are in the process of putting together a preliminary definition of the different types of land uses. He noted that the Task Force had limited definitions of what these different uses would consist of. Staff and the consultants could make it clear to the Commissions as to the types of uses that staff and the consultants are referring to, but there has been no formal action to define these uses. Staff and the consultants can come back to Council with a composite plan that will define the uses. He noted that it would be hard to define in any detail what will ultimately be going into the cultural arts center, as this will be a program of itself where a committee will be formed to establish it. Mr. Sullivan believed it would be appropriate for the various Commissions to work with staff and have input into defining those uses. Ms. McGovern stated that she would be supportive if the remainder of the Council wanted to forward all five of the site plan alternatives to the various Commissions but she would like for the Commissions to be provided a copy of the Council minutes entailing Council's decision this evening. She is concerned about the amphitheater matrix that states that it will be open from 6 p.m. to 12 a.m. She would like for Mr. Fotheringham to revisit the hours of operation, as she did not want to send out a false message as to how the amphitheater would be used. She asked the City Attorney to provide his opinion as to what the Community Park could include and whether or not there could be some type of movement of the cultural arts center to the northeast corner of the Bernal property. Mr. Brozosky pointed out that the Phase I Specific Plan indicated that land uses and activities to be included in Phase II are to be voted on by the community. He believed Council might want to discuss what is provided to the community to vote on because the property will not be developed in the near future and if Council is too specific, Council will need to return to the voters to change something. Pleasanton City Council 13 02/01/05 Minutes