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public golf course was not fully mitigated until the bypass road is built and the Alviso Adobe park is actually constructed or started. She agreed with Mr. Close regarding the Happy Valley Park. The Council had said it would not look at specific plan areas and Happy Valley is a Specific Plan. Council is changing that Specific Plan by putting an item in the General Plan that says there will be a park there. If it is to serve the people in Carriage Garden and Rose Pointe, then it should say South Pleasanton. If it is for future residents of Lund Ranch and the Spotorno property, then say that, but don't identify it as Happy Valley. She felt that would require annexation of 14-20 properties and/or to gain access over private roads so the Rose Pointe people can access it without going onto a major thoroughfare. As an historic park, she suggested adding the cemetery to the list as a "green cemetery". She noted another one in Mill Valley. There were no further speakers. 5. Next Steos and Matters Initiated bv Council Mr. Fialho indicated a draft form of this topic would be available by the end of the calendar year for review. Staff is still on schedule for an EIR for the spring of 2007. The Open Space Element will be reviewed tomorrow by the Planning Commission and will be presented to Council some time in late June. A specific date has not been set. Mayor Hosterman asked that Council be open to the possibility of creating a Water Element. All of the language is already contained in the existing General Plan and it is a matter of naming another element, which she felt was important when talking about strategies watershed by watershed instead of city by city. She felt there was an opportunity to use a template, which would be offered, to cities. This is in anticipation of a mandated water element by the State of California in the future. She felt putting all the water issues under one category would make it easier to find and discuss in the future. Mr. Sullivan asked if the language could be combined into one place and brought back at the end of the year without delaying the process? Mr. Fialho said that was possible. Alternatively, the decision could be made later once Council has a better idea of what the total General Plan looks like. Mayor Hosterman asked if staff needed to know at this meeting which scenario to use? Mr. Fialho said either option is okay. He preferred to stay with the existing process and make a decision on the Water Element at the end of the process. A special meeting was not called. 6. Adiournment There being no further discussion, the workshop was adjourned at 8:55 p.m. R spectfully S~b . ed, Kar n Gonzales Deputy City Cler General Plan Workshop City Council 14 OS/23/06