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r- French villages as they were for Neo-traditional, American, turn of the century, Victorian, and/or Craftsman homes in other project. Steve Brozosky, 1700 Vineyard Avenue, wished to respond to staff's question whether the vineyard could be planted organically. He stated that it was virtually impossible to plant an organic vineyard on this piece of land because they were required to use well water and drip irrigation. As a property owner with a well, he knew how much iron was present in the well water. If iron were present in the well water, and drip emitters were used, the water system would have to be acidified in order to keep the acid from clogging up the drip emitters. He noted that acidifying the water would be against organic practices. In addition, he was glad to see that the vineyards would not be planted under the canopy. Regarding the building permits, Mr. Brozosky noted that Greenbriar would want to build all the homes at once. He suggested withholding the approval of the rough wiring in the homes until the vineyards were planted, which would allow Greenbriar to start the homes. However, the Sheetrock would not be installed until the vineyards were started. r- Pat Costanza, Greenbriar Homes, noted that the issue of the last building permit was very important to them. In the building cycle, all the houses were built at once. If one house were to be held back, the full crew could be committed to that one house for eight months. He stated that was not economical, and did not make sense. He noted that the vineyards would have to be built before the houses, and that the construction site would contain staging areas that would disturb the growth in the vineyards. He noted that Greenbriar had committed to planting the vineyards, as well as to closing the last house. he believed that because of Greenbriar's bonding capacity, they could probably get a performance bond without a full plan. He emphasized Greenbriar's commitment to completing the development, and to planting the vineyards. In response to Commissioner Arkin's question whether Wente Vineyards would be able to execute against the performance bond, Mr. Costanza replied that would be possible. He noted that the planting of the vineyard was not as big an issue as not constructing the homes at the same time. He would be willing to put the money for the vineyards into an escrow account instead of a bond that could be used to pay Wente. Chairperson Maas advised that she was concerned about the visuals, particularly Lot 8, and asked if that could be a two story home instead of a single story. She suggested switching that home with Lot 10. Mr. Ebrahimi noted that they were attempted to reduce the visual impact to the Foleys, and they had agreed to place Lot 10 to accommodate that concern. He noted that a single story home had a much bigger footprint that would not fit on Lot 8. Chairperson Maas inquired whether Lots 1 and 3 could contain single story homes. Mr. Ebrahimi replied that Lot 2 already contained a single story home, and that placement of ".-. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES July 10, 2002 Page 15