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<br />component of the Phase I Specific Plan is now either constructed or approved, at a <br />total count of 571 units: 1,686 fewer units, <br /> <br />Office/Commercial, As noted in the General Plan EIR, Table 3, the office/commercial <br />component of the Bernal Property site was assumed to be 944,800 square feet. The <br />office/commercial component of the Phase I Specific Plan is a maximum of 750,000 <br />square feet of development 194,800 fewer square feet. <br /> <br />Under the Bernal Property Phase II Specific Plan, the Phase II site proposes public <br />uses that include neither housing nor office/commercial space, While those public <br />uses will generate trips, the estimated total trip generation of the Phase I and Phase <br />II Specific Plans (2,216 AM and 2,608 PM trips) would be substantially less than that <br />envisioned for the Bernal Property under the 1996 General Plan, In the 1997 Bernal <br />Property Draft EIR (which included both Phase I and Phase II sites; see Bernal <br />Property DEIR Table 30, p, 164), the trip generation from the full property under the <br />Preferred plan was projected to be 2,600 AM trips and 3,464 PM trips: a decline <br />respectively of15 percent in the AM peak period and 25 percent in the PM peak, <br /> <br />C. Ali\MEDACOUNTY, <br />COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS <br />lETTER OF MARCH 23, 2006 <br /> <br />C 1 Comment: <br />Will the reconstruction of the Pleasanton Avenue/Bernal Avenue intersection require <br />the use of land from the Fairgrounds? <br /> <br />Response: <br />No, No change is proposed for the north side of Bernal Avenue, <br /> <br />C 2 Comment: <br />will the reconstruction of the Pleasanton Avenue/Bernal Avenue intersection alleviate <br />the dramatic curve in Pleasanton Avenue, which begins roughly 50 feet north of <br />Bernal Avenue? <br /> <br />Response: <br />No, No change is proposed for the north side of Bernal Avenue, <br /> <br />C 3 Comment: <br />The DEI R is silent on the cumulative impacts relating to this intersection when major <br />activities/events take place at the Fairgrounds, <br /> <br />Response: <br />Traffic from the Phase II Specific Plan area would add to traffic from major activities/ <br />events taking place at the Fairgrounds, resulting in a cumulative impact. <br /> <br />Cumulative impacts occurring on weekends were not analyzed quantitatively, <br />because the Pleasanton traffic model is a weekday model, and uses weekday peak <br />hour traffic counts for its base condition, Because the focus of transportation analy- <br /> <br />77 <br />