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D. 2006 Memorandum of Understanding In April 2006, Pleasanton and the ACSPA executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as a "roadmap" for the future development of the Staples Ranch site. The purpose of the MOU was to accommodate the relocation and expansion of existing Pleasanton auto dealerships to Staples Ranch, provide Pleasanton control of when Stoneridge Drive would be extended to El Charro Road due to concerns within the City regarding "cut through traffic," and provide assurances to the ACSPA that the entire property could be comprehensively developed and that required infrastructure improvements would be limited, if approved and annexed to the City. The 2006 MOU land use map indicated the site would be developed with a 36± acre auto mall with an additional 5± acres of optional auto mall uses, a 45± acre continuing care facility (located outside the APA), and 12± acres of future commercial uses. In addition, a 17 acre community park site adjacent to the Arroyo Mocho would be dedicated to the City. Stoneridge Drive would be extended as a two lane road with turn lanes across the Arroyo Mocho to access the continuing care facility and community park. A new four lane road with turn lanes (dubbed Auto Mall Place) would be extended from an improved El Charro Road to serve the auto mall and future commercial area. No vehicular access (other than emergency vehicles and potentially buses) would be permitted between the two roads, but the roads would be designed and right of way preserved to accommodate the future extension of Stoneridge Drive to El Charro Road as a four lane arterial with turn lanes. As a result of more refined site planning, the AC SPA and the City have informally agreed to make several minor modifications to the land use configurations described in the MOU. The continuing care facility has been slightly expanded to 46 acres and the auto mall has been slightly expanded to 37 acres, but with no option for future expansion to 41 acres. Pleasanton has also decided to acquire (partially funded by the Staples Ranch developers) approximately 5 acres north of the Stoneridge Drive alignment for a neighborhood park site that would also be designed to serve as a storm water flow control basin to meet recently enacted State hydromodification requirements for new development. Purchase of the neighborhood park will effectively reduce the area devoted to non auto mall commercial uses from 17 acres to 11 acres. In April 2007, the Pleasanton City Council voted to realign the community park site so that it could potentially accommodate a four rink ice center. The park realignment also modified the alignment of the remaining 11 acre commercial site so that it is now located at the southwest corner of the planned El Charro Road/Auto Mall Place intersection. In June 2008, the Pleasanton City Council approved a conceptual park master plan for the Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment/Staples Ranch Draft October, 2008 8 w k 1