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Resolution No. PC-96-l0 Page 2 B. The plan is consistent with the City's General Plan. The General Plan Land Use designation for the site is High Density Residential, which permits residential densities of eight or more units per acre. The project density of 23 du/ac conforms to the site's General Plan land use designation of High Density Residential (8+ du/ac). The proposed PUD development plan has been designed to meet the applicable General Plan policies for the proposed High Density Residential land use designation. The proposed Parkview project would set aside 25% of its units for lower income households for a minimum of 25 years, which meets the current General Plan program. The project's location near employment centers and public transportation (including the new BART station), and its location in an area already developed with adequately-sized infrastructure (six-lane thoroughfares, water, sewer, storm drain, etc.), meets other General Plan policies and programs such as dispersing high density residential housing near public transit, shopping and employment centers (Policy 17) and encouraging residential infill in areas where public facilities are adequate to serve it (Policy 18, Program 18.1). Program 7.7 encourages the inclusion of lower-income units among market-rate units. Parkview would provide 116 lower-income units among the other 346 market-rate units. C. The plan is compatible with previously developed properties in the vicinity and the natural, topographic features of the site. The site is an infill property surrounded by a variety of residential and commercial uses. The site is relatively flat. Grading for the proposed project would involve minimal cut and fill in order to produce the required minimal slopes necessary to achieve proper drainage of stormwater from the building pads and on-site drive aisles and parking areas into the City's subterranean storm water runoff collection system. Grading conducted on the site will be subject to engineering and building standards prior to any development. The two-and three-story building heights are compatible with other high density residential development near this site and on the boundaries of the Hacienda Business Park. Buildings are well-proportioned and designed. Through deep building setbacks and generous landscape treatments, the site design avoids the wall-like building effect along City streets that has been a major concern expressed in the past by the City. Landscaping is attractive, frames public and private views, and is consistent with the surrounding development within the Hacienda Business Park and the design guidelines of the Hacienda Business Park.