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computer is registering is all the geometry of all of those spaces that can be seen from any of the viewpoints. The viewpoints that were selected for both the photographs and the visual simulations aze viewpoints that aze accessible to the public. Five locations were chosen: three neazby locations, one representative distant location, and then one on-site location that, while not particulazly relevant to views from off the site, was helpful in looking at the effect of possible loss of trees. Chairperson Arkin inquired if the selection of the view sites were reviewed with City staff to make sure those would be the appropriate locations. Ms. Mundie said yes. In response to Commissioner Fox's inquiring regazding whether Ms. Mundie reviewed what was requested at the February scoping session, Ms. Mundie replied that she was present at the scoping session and had a list of all the points of view that people raised at that scoping session. She stated that she went out with staff and looked at the site from all of those points of view and also studied them all, using the terrain model. Some of them could not be seen from distant locations because of intervening topography, which is actually fairly common, especially at a higher elevation to begin with, because there will be other hills and ridges between you and this site. She indicated that it was fairly difficult to find distant locations from which substantial parts of the site aze readily visible or on which individual landscape or built elements could be very easily distinguished from this setting in which they were. The sites that seemed most useful were then reviewed both by themselves and by staff and by the applicants' representatives, and it was a consultative process to determine which ones seemed to be the most useful for the environmental analysis. The sites chosen were those from which the most could be seen. Commissioner Fox inquired if the Bernal Property was one of the Downtown sites. Ms. Mundie said yes. Ms. Mundie continued that this process gives a computer map based upon all the geometrical points determined by topography. The computer map is then registered to the photographs of the site, and then the landscaping and things that are associated with the project aze placed on it. Because the project is a custom home project and does not have any buildings designed yet, the project's design guidelines which were developed by the applicant are put to use. However, only the mandatory sections of the design guidelines in determining the shape, the size, and the footprint of the buildings that would actually be placed into the model for the purposes of the visual analysis aze used so as not to misstate or unrealistically put any buildings on a site in a way in which they were unlikely to be actually placed when the real project comes forward. Ms. Mundie noted that staff had emphasized the importance of considering the fact that landscaping is very hazd to see in the very first yeazs of the project because it either has not been placed yet or it has not grown into anything yet. So, in addition to looking at the existing view of the site, we were to look at the project in Yeaz 0, which means it has just been constructed, and there is basically no landscaping there and looks pretty raw; five yeazs after construction, in which case you can normally see some landscaping, but it is not very substantial yet; and then, 15 yeazs out, when a substantial amount of the landscaping, including the mitigation trees that the applicant will be planting, will have reached enough 11