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PUBLIC SCHOOLS This section provides information related to existing public school facilities and services available in and to the project site.The project site currently has no operating schools. One school within Neighborhood F is operational and serves children of that portion of the MI-IMP area. Lammersville Elementary School District The project is located in the service boundaries of the Lammersville Elementary School District(LESD), which serves kindergarten through 8th grade(K-8)students from the unincorporated area of the County to the north and south of Interstate 205 (I-205)along the boundary with Alameda County. LESD currently operates two public elementary schools,Lammersville and Wicklund,which provide education for K-8 students. Lammersville School is located in the City of Tracy and was designed with a capacity for 300 students,but current attendance is 370 students. Lammersville School uses portable classrooms to provide the _ additional needed capacity.Wicklund School, located along Legacy Drive in the Mountain House development, was designed with a capacity for 875 students and current attendance is 273 students. Because of the expected growth in the service area,LESD expects Wicklund to be near or at capacity within the next 2 years. LESD plans to construct and operate two new K-8 schools in the MHMP area in Neighborhoods E and G of the Specific Plan I project area. These two new schools are anticipated to be operational in 2006 and serve 850 students each. In addition,these two schools would provide services to students in the project area until the schools planned to specifically serve the project area are constructed(Unsod 2004). Tracy Unified School District — The project is located in the Tracy Unified School District(TUSD),which provides public high school services. TUSD currently serves approximately 5,400 high school students at two comprehensive high schools and one _ continuation high school.These three high schools are all located in the City of Tracy. The closest comprehensive high school to the project site is West High School, located at 1775 West Lowell _ Avenue and approximately 6 miles from the project site. West High School was originally designed for a capacity of 2,400 students,but is currently operating with 2,900 students.West High School utilizes rented portable facilities to provide for the needed extra capacity.The second comprehensive high school operated by TUSD is Tracy High School,which has a capacity for up to 1,800 students. Tracy High School currently accommodates 2,500 students and also uses rented portable facilities for additional needed capacity(Bell 2004). In 2006,TUSD plans to begin construction of a new school facility along Lammers Road to accommodate — students in grades 6 through 12.1'USD also plans to begin the first phases of construction of a new high school facility in the Mountain House development in 2008 (Bell 2004). FIRE PROTECTION AND EMERGENCY SERVICES This section provides information related to fire protection and emergency services available in and to the College _ Park project area.The fire station in the Mountain House community has been approved. Tracy Rural Fire Protection District The Tracy Rural Fire Protection District(District)provides fire protection services to the project area through a Joint Powers Agreement with the City of Tracy. The District has mutual aid agreements with nearby fire- protection service providers including the Alameda County Fire Department,the Livermore Lab Fire Department, and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. EDAW College Park at Mountain House Specific Plan III Draft EIR San Joaquin County 4.4-2 Public Services