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Mr. Fialho said that was true except for the issue of the park. Staff recommends that it stays at 17 acres because it meets the needs of the development and adjacent neighborhoods. Cindy McGovern asked when the community care facility would actually be opened? Mr. Aschenbrenner said that was a hard question to answer. It needs Council approval and to meet state requirements, which include pre-selling 50% of what is to be built. It is done in phases, but takes time. If it were approved today and pre-selling commenced today, it would be at least a year before construction would start and would take 18 months to build the first phase. He estimated at least two and a half years, maybe more. Ms. McGovern asked how staff envisioned the park being financed? Would it be by agreement with developers? Mr. Iserson said the parkland would be donated from the County and staff is exploring different ways to fund improvements. Ms. McGovern wanted to know if the park would be built before the senior residence is complete? Mr. Iserson said that was the goal. Ms. McGovern expressed concern about how the senior residents would have access to the park and wanted to make certain the design of the project included that. She noted the desire at the meeting is to get approval of the concept for land use on Staples Ranch and approval of an MOU for that land use. The plan would still go through all regular review processes. Mr. Iserson said staff is not asking for approval of the MOU at this meeting. It would come back at another time when there is an opportunity to understand the components and discuss them. The actual development plans for the auto mall and senior facility will come through the normal review process. Ms. McGovern asked if that was the time when a decision would be made on whether these units count as housing units or not? Mr. Iserson hoped that would come earlier than that. He suggested that could be discussed at the General Plan workshop in November. Ms. McGovern also had concerns about the design of the EVA before she approved any type of development. She liked the idea of having more than one emergency vehicle access point. She asked if the bridge shown at the bottom of the community park towards EI Charro was built at this time and whether it connected to the trail to Livermore? Mr. Iserson said yes, it has been constructed, but it does not connect to the trail. The trail would come from Stone ridge Drive on another bridge. Mr. Cook explained that as part of the arroyo realignment, it was necessary to construct two new private bridges. One connects to the Hansen property at EI Charro Road and was designed to public standards with the intention to become a public road if and when EI Charro is extended to Joint Workshop City Council/Planning Commission 6 10/11/05