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Chair Olson inquired if, assuming the project is approved and goes forward, Ponderosa Homes will go in there and build all five homes at once or one at a time. Mr. Schroeder replied that they will most likely build two or three to start with as the market is very difficult right now. Commissioner Blank inquired what the build order would be. Mr. Schroeder replied that they have not thought about that and that their construction department will look at how it affects traffic and what will make it easiest for everyone to get around within the tract. Mr. Briggs stated that he believes Ms. Hardy said that the design guidelines never refer to the homes as custom homes but that the documents he referred to from December 2006 do refer to them as custom homes. He indicated that the term “custom home site” could apply to any plain piece of lot or land, and, therefore, it does mean custom home, which is the intent. He also pointed out that there are about 30 lots around Mariposa Ranch, and every one of those homes is a custom home with a very unique appearance and was not built by the same builder. Mr. Briggs then pulled the definition of a custom home from a website, stating that “a custom home is one that is especially designed to meet the specifications of the person who commissioned it. Stock building plans are not custom design. The same plan may be sold to many different people.” He noted that this is independent evidence of what a custom home might be. He also presented a definition of “custom built” from the Miriam Webster dictionary, which states “built to individual specifications; a custom built house.” He indicated that he felt the definitions were clear. He added that most people have an idea that a custom home is a home built on properties purchased by people, who then meet with a designer or architect and build them to their own individual tastes. Phil Benzel, Appellant, stated that in the definition of the custom home, an architect is commissioned by an owner to develop a home that takes into account the land that it sits on, the view from the outside surroundings into that home, as well as the view from inside the home to the outside. He added that he thinks the homes Ponderosa is proposing are beautiful but that they do not necessarily meet the definition of custom homes. He indicated that he did not think they meet Terry Townsend’s definition of custom home. Mr. Benzel stated that he became aware of this proposal from Mr. Townsend on or about December 22, 2009. He indicated that he saw a truck in the back of a lot, wished Mr. Townsend a Merry Christmas, and asked him what he thought about the new tract homes Ponderosa is proposing to build on the lots. He stated that Mr. Townsend replied that they were nice and that he had a number of recommendations for presentation to the Planning Commission, which Ponderosa has implemented, but noted that they are basically tract homes. PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, February 24, 2010 Page 12 of 17