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P19-0379, 1 Brozosky Hill Lane Planning Commission Hillside Residential District (page19) The Hillside Residential (HR) district provides for 19 new homes on approximately 40,000-square-foot minimum-sized lots. Development areas are located in the hilly portions of Subareas 1 and 3. The intent of this designation is to allow for a clustering of homes in well-defined areas of the hills in order to preserve significant natural features such as ridgelines, hilltops, oak woodland, creeks, and steep slopes. Open space land surrounding the HR district is to be permanently preserved. Open Space District (page 22) The Open Space (OS) district is generally intended to preserve the natural features of the hillside areas south of the existing Vineyard Avenue. Owners of these lots may retain their existing agricultural uses. No homes are permitted within the OS area; however, fencing and agricultural structures are allowed. Residential Development Standards (page 25): In HR areas, all home sites must be located within the designated development areas as generally depicted on the land use plan (see Figure IV-2). Lot lines may extend into land designated as Open Space, but primary residential buildings and residential accessory structures may only be sited within the designated development areas. The VACSP also indicates all hillside home sites must be located within the designated development areas as generally depicted (underline added) on the land use plan. Staff notes the land use plans are not meant to be precise, and so some flexibility is available in final siting of homes, based on site-specific conditions. For this application, the applicant proposes, instead of placing new homes in the generally depicted “blobs” on the land use plan, to shift the new home “blob” depicted by the existing residence northwards, and to group it together with the new home “blobs” located in the northern portion of the site. And as such, there would be three new home sites, instead of two, to be located in the northern portion of the lot. Please see Figure 4 showing the proposed three new lots superimposed onto the VACSP land use plan.