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Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND The proposed lot line adjustment is located on Lot 18 of the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan (Hahner Property). In March 2001, the City approved a Planned Unit Development Plan (Case PUD-00-01) submitted by Mardel LLC to allow the construction of 38 single-family detached homes, a public sewer lift station, realignment of Vineyard Avenue, creation of a vineyard estate lot and other public infrastructure in accordance with the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan. In March 2003, Mark Arola and Jon McCurdy modified PUD-OO-OI to allow 4.2 acres to be developed separately. In October 2003, the City Council approved a final map for Tract 7240 (Chateau Country Estates), which subdivided the remaining portions of PUD-00-01, creating 30 single-family residential lots, one existing home site, one vineyard estate lot and two parcels dedicated to the City as open space. The current owner of Tract 7240 is GHC Company 7, a Delaware limited liability company, which is managed by Greenbriar Homes Communities. The two parcels which were dedicated to the City for open space are Parcels C and D of Tract 7240. Notwithstanding that Parcels C and D are owned by the City, these parcels, as well as other street landscaping, project trees, and Vineyard Corridor landscaping, are privately maintained pursuant to a License and Landscaping Maintenance Agreement between the City and GHC dated April 2005. The requirement for such private maintenance of the City parcels and other landscaping was a condition of approval for Tract 7240. PROPOSED LOT LINE ADJUSTMENT GHC now requests that 2,658 square feet of the City-owned Parcel C (which has a total of 19,419 square feet) be transferred via a lot line adjustment to Parcel A, the private vineyard estate lot (which has a total of 17.6 acres). GHC makes this request because there is an existing water well on Parcel C which GHC would like to use to irrigate the vineyards required to be planted and maintained on Parcel A. While there is another existing water well on Parcel A, that well does not have sufficient capacity to water the required 15.6 acres of vineyards. The Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan supports GHC's proposed use of well water to irrigate the vineyards on Parcel A. Specifically, the Public Facilities section provides, in relevant part: Water Conservation Partial mItIgation of the cumulative Increase In potable water demand will be provided by the following... Well water shall be required for irrigation of vineyards and related agricultural uses. (See Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan, page 78.) SR 06:246 Page 2 of 4