RES 06035 - Laserfiche WebLink

Chapter 4 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures M3. Public Services: Schools The Bernal Phase II Specific Plan project area lies within the Pleasanton Unified School District (PUSD). PUSD operates nine elementary schools (K-5), three middle schools (6-8), four high schools (9-12), and a homeschool program, providing for the City of Pleasanton and some outlying, sparsely populated areas. This section reviews the effect of the project on the PUSD school system. Phase I of the Bernal Property Specific Plan planned for the development of an elementary school in Phase II sub-area 8 (see Figure 4, p. 12). That school, the Hearst Elementary School at 5031 Case Street, located on the southwestern portion ofthe site, was constructed and is currently in its fifth year of operation, with almost 65 staff members and about 650 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines (Item XIII (a)) suggests the criterion for determining a project's effect on school services. Impacts on public school services would be significant: [If the project would] result in substantial adverse physical impacts associated with the provision of new or physically altered facilities, need for new or physically altered facilities, the construction of which could cause significant environmental impacts, in order to maintain acceptable service ratios or other performance objectives for schools. The conversion of Phase II Specific Plan sub-area 8 to an elementary school was addressed in the Phase I EIR. Phase II of the Specific Plan does not include any residential uses. Development of the remaining Phase II lands, therefore, would not contribute new students to the PUSD. The potential cultural arts center might include classrooms and related facilities that could possible be shared between the City and the PUSD. 121