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Mr. Roush said the Community Park is excluded from the voter requirement but it does not keep Council from submitting the Community Park to the voters. Measure X does not require the Community Park to be submitted to the voters. Mr. Fialho said staff tried to integrate the Specific Plan process and the Master Plan process so there was one document that showed how the Specific Plan had materialized through community input and a master plan that could be used for design and construction purposes as funding becomes available. It was clear at the beginning of this process when the work plan was established there be a way to integrate these two documents so that when it was presented to Council for its consideration everything was on the table, and staff has come up with a work plan that he believed satisfied that. Mr. Brozosky pointed out that the Community Park was not intended to only be a sports park. He asked how the Native American history land use correlated with what was being done at the Alviso Adobe Park. Mr. Rasmussen said what was envisioned for the Draft Phase II Specific Plan was no additional facilities other than information provided in the Environmental Education Center that would be located nearby. The intent was to have outdoor open space, reflective grounds that would have very little or no physical development and a use that would be unique to that piece of land that at one time was an area where burial grounds were located nearby which materialized during the design competition. Mayor Hosterman invited public comments. Janice Decker, a Pleasanton resident, wanted to ensure that the Plan included the 4-H Club and was a use reflected in the final Plan. Cy Matin, a Pleasanton resident, thanked Council for its efforts and clarification of including tennis as a potential land use in the Phase II Specific Plan. He believed the need for additional tennis courts was clear and he was hopeful that it would be included in the final Specific Plan as a potential land use. Mayor Hosterman closed the public comments. Mr. Thorne clarified the intent of the Initiative To Save Our Community Park. The primary intent of the Council meeting where the co-authors of the initiative were present was the question regarding what was intended by the term "Phase I." The co-authors agreed that Phase I only included the lighted sports fields as currently approved and under construction. The initiative did not require that anything else be built before anything else and it only required the City to not approve any land uses during the planning process that are incompatible with the Community Park. He referred to page 12 of the Draft II Specific Plan and wanted something to be done with the Park-and-Ride commuter parking lot as a potential land use as he was not sure Council wanted this included in the Plan. He would prefer to see this area used as open space. He would like included a "YMCA" after the youth/community center on the list of potential land uses as it would fit into this terminology. He referred to pages 28 and 29 of the Draft Phase II Specific Plan and some mention of public safety included in Landform Policy 2: Lakes and Ponds, and LandForm Policy 3: Channels. Pleasanton City Council 19 11/01/05 Minutes