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Resolution No. PC -2009-18 <br />Page Two <br />2. The plan is consistent with the City's General Plan and any <br />applicable specific plans. <br />The site's General Plan Land Use designation of Medium Density <br />Residential (two to eight dwelling units per gross acre), High Density <br />Residential (greater than eight dwelling units per gross acre), Parks and <br />Recreation, and Retail/Highway/Service Commercial, Business and <br />Professional Offices allows for a mix of uses on the Staples Ranch site, <br />including a senior continuing care community. According to the General <br />Plan, commercial development with a floor area ratio (FAR) of 35 percent <br />or less can be provided on the site without an amenity. The proposed <br />FAR is approximately 55 percent. The applicant is proposing to assist <br />with the construction of the Staples Ranch Neighborhood Park as an <br />amenity. <br />Development of the proposed project will further the implementation of the <br />Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment. The Stoneridge Drive <br />Specific Plan Amendment anticipates an approximately 46 -acre senior <br />continuing care community on the project site. As conditioned, the project <br />will adhere to the design constraints of the Specific Plan Amendment, <br />includes a visually coordinated, appealing architecture, a site layout which <br />creates useable and pleasant outdoor spaces, does not conflict with the <br />existing underground fiber optic cable that traverses the site, and provides <br />a gated emergency vehicle access at the terminus of Staples Ranch <br />Drive, separated sidewalks along Stoneridge Drive, a landscape berm <br />along the 1-580 frontage to reduce noise impacts, and landscaping in the <br />adjacent Caltrans right-of-way as required/encouraged by the Specific <br />Plan Amendment. <br />The project, as conditioned, is consistent with the City's General Plan. <br />Therefore, this finding can be made. <br />3. The proposed development plan is compatible with previously <br />developed properties located in the vicinity and the natural, <br />topographic features of the site. <br />The site is predominantly flat. The site is generally 346 feet — 350 feet in <br />elevation. There is a mound on the property which is material imported by <br />KB Homes in 1995 in anticipation of using it for fill material as part of a <br />residential project that was never constructed. Along the western <br />boundary, there is an existing drainage swale which will be regarded as <br />