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Draft Environmental Impact Report Bernal Property Phase II Specific Plan East North of Bernal Avenue, uses facing the Bernal Property include (from west to east) housing immediately west of 1-680, a business park immediately east of 1- 680, and the Alameda County Fairgrounds. The 266-acre Fairgrounds includes a variety of exhibition, performance, recreation, and administrative uses, as well as (along its eastern edge) Pleasanton's ACE train station. Toward Downtown Pleasanton and the east lie the Pleasanton Civic Center, including the library, police department facilities, and City offices; Pleasanton Middle School; Hearst Elementary School; Applied Biosystems; and office and industrial uses. South of the Specific Plan area are Castlewood County Club's Valley golf course and the Castlewood residential subdivision (in unincorporated Alameda County) of approximately 200 homes. North South and Southwest c. Plans for the Adjacent Area The General Plan applicable to this part of Pleasanton at the time the Bernal Property Phase I Specific Plan was adopted in 2000 was the 1996 Pleasanton General Plan. That plan will remain in effect until the adoption of a comprehensive General Plan update, which Pleasan- ton is currently preparing. Given that the surrounding area is largely developed, significant changes in the land use context of the Bernal site appear to be unlikely. The proximity of the Bernal site to the Pleasanton Civic Center and downtown Pleasanton is noted above. Downtown Pleasanton is the subject of a Specific Plan for a 308-acre area (60 city blocks) that touches on the Bernal site at the intersection of Pleasanton Avenue and Bernal Avenue (where Bernal Avenue drops below the Union Pacific railroad overcrossing). This plan is intended "to guide the preservation and development of lands within Downtown Pleasanton through the year 2010." The Downtown Specific Plan does not refer to the Bernal property, with the exception of noting the anticipated relocation of Fire Station #4 to the Bernal site (which has occurred). However, the Plan anticipates future improvements to the Pleasanton Civic Center, which is the portion of downtown closest to the Bernal property. The Downtown Specific Plan cites several General Plan policies and programs that relate to the Civic Center, including: . Consider the development of a new City Hall in the commercial area of the Downtown (Program 3.3) . Explore the feasibility of constructing a "landmark" civic center to house the City administrative offices, preferably in the Downtown area. .. (Program 9.4) Further planning effort by the City has since been directed toward examining conceptual approaches for future development of the Civic Center. Potential options for two blocks were examined in the Civic Center Master Site Plan, October 5, 2004: (l) the block north of Bernal Avenue where the library, the Police Department, City Hall, and City administrative offices are currently located and (2) the vacant block to the west of the main Civic Center block (owned by the City and County of San Francisco) bounded by Bernal Avenue on the 94