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Primary access to the site is from Hearst Drive, a residential collector street that <br />connects to Bernal Avenue and serves the Kottinger Ranch subdivision. There is also <br />an emergency only access to the site from the Grey Eagle Estates subdivision to the <br />north via an easement to the City. <br />III. PROPOSAL <br />The following is a summary of the "Project Description" section of the June 13tH <br />Planning Commission staff report (pp. 7- 11), attached. <br />Proposed Site Design <br />Figure 2, on the following page, is an exhibit from the Draft EIR, which shows the <br />proposed lots, open space area, stockpile areas, major drainage courses/habitat areas, <br />existing and proposed detention basins, existing and proposed water tanks, and the <br />Urban Growth Boundary Line. Since the Planning Commission public hearing, the <br />applicant has revised the development plan proposal to include the fire access road to <br />the Kottinger Ranch tank site. Local and regional trails and the trail staging area <br />exhibits are shown on separate exhibits (In. 47J in the June 13tH Planning Commission <br />staff report. The site plan also shows the preliminary grading limit line for the <br />development depicting the initial mass grading required to develop the project. <br />Additional individual lot grading may occur as homes lots are built. <br />The proposed site plan includes the following features: <br />The applicant proposes to develop an approximately 66-acre portion -including <br />streets and building sites - of the 562-acre property into 51 custom lots varying <br />from 30,290 square feet to 90,834 square feet in area, and arranged along the <br />extension of Hearst Drive. An emergency vehicle access connection would be <br />provided at the north property line to the public access/public service easement <br />on the adjacent Grey Eagle Estates subdivision property, and a fire access road <br />to the existing City water tank and water tank access road would be provided <br />from Benedict Court. <br />• The applicant will dedicate the remaining 496 acres of land to the City of <br />Pleasanton (or to a Geologic Hazard Abatement District, the board of directors of <br />which will be the City Council) as permanent open space in perpetuity. Over this <br />permanent open space would be an open space conservation easement to an <br />independent third party such as the Tri-Valley Conservancy. The open space <br />area will provide wildlife habitat preservation areas, a system of regional and <br />local public trails including a trail staging area, tree reforestation of the slopes <br />facing the existing developments to the north, fire break areas, and <br />detention/settlement basins serving the proposed development. <br />• A trail staging area owned and operated by the City will be located near the <br />planned water tank at the juncture of the regional and local trails. It will include <br />parking, restrooms, a horse trough, and a drinking fountain. The trails would be <br />generally accessible to pedestrians, bicyclists, and equestrians. <br />Page 5 of 27 <br />