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Resolution No. PC-99-14 Page 2 Adequate access would be provided to all structures for police, fire, and other emergency vehicles. The residential units would be designed to meet the requirements of the Uniform Building Code and other applicable City codes. A large portion of the site, approximately 55 acres, would be dedicated to the East Bay Regional Park District for preservation of natural open space and addition of the acreage to the District's Ridgelands trail and open space system, which is a public benefit. A conservation/scenic easement would be placed over the acreage in favor of the City. 2. The plan is consistent with the City's General Plan. The proposed PUD development plan has been designed to meet the applicable General Plan policies for the Rural Density Residential (0.2 units per acre) and Public Health and Safety land use designations. The site will be developed with six new lots in addition to the existing homes, resulting in a density slightly less than one unit for every five acres. Additionally, the development would be clustered in a seven-acre portion of the site, leaving the remaining 55 acres for dedication to the East Bay Regional Park District as natural open space. Dedication of open space to a regional park agency and the recordation of scenic or conservation easements is a policy and program of the City's General Plan. The City's General Plan also encourages clustering development in areas designated as Rural Density Residential with average lot size of one acre. Although the proposed lot sizes range from about 0.6 acre to just over one acre, the proposed lot sizes are appropriate for the site since larger lots would require either additional grading or another configuration of lots to reach the one-acre size preferred. o The plan is compatible with previously developed properties in the vicinity and the natural, topographic features of the site. The site is characterized by a north-south trending flat ridge with steeper, heavily vegetated slopes on either side of the ridge. The existing home is located at the northerly end of this ridge, and the new homes are proposed to be located between an adjacent development of 100 homes, The Preserve, and the existing house. Because access to the site from Dublin Canyon Road is problematic, access to the Panganiban property was planned to occur from the Presley project. The new homes would be located on this ridge, the flattest portion of the site. Grading has been proposed so that it is limited to cut and fill necessary to extend the adjacent Crosby Drive into the site for public access. To the greatest extent possible, the developer is planning to leave the building sites in their natural state. No grading is proposed to occur in vegetated areas, and any trenching for utilities which must occur within the tree canopy is required to be performed by hand. Grading