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plan review process. At the time of the Bordeaux Country Estates PUD review, it was determined that the roads should not connect. Home Site Location The Specific Plan indicates that all HR home sites must be located within the designated development areas as generally depicted on the land use plan. The VACSP Land Use Plan shows a large asterisk indicating the approximate location. These areas are conceptual and not intended to be specific in that at the time that these plans were made it was not connected to or related to topographic constraints. As can be seen on the development plan slope map, most of the site is comprised of slopes greater than 20 percent. Staff believes the home could be located anywhere within the general vicinity of the location shown on the land use plan. Consideration was given to looking at the area closest to the existing home. Staff found that this location would require considerable grading and retaining walls to accommodate the proposed home. Therefore, staff evaluated the proposed location at the top of the knoll and believes with the proposed mitigations, reduction of the aboveground living area, and the proposal to keep a larger area of the original grade up to the home, that this site is preferable. Building Envelopes/Designated Development Areas Staff recommended that building envelopes for both lots be established rather than list minimum property line setbacks as is typically done with standard-sized lots. The proposed building envelopes, identified as Designated Development Areas (DDAs), have been shown on the proposed plans. All structures (i.e., the main dwelling and all accessory structures) would need to be located within these areas. The DDAs generally comply with the minimum property line setbacks noted in the Specific Plan for the HR area, with a few exceptions noted below. The Specific Plan requires a 35-foot minimum front yard setback for HR lots as measured from property lines. The Specific Plan allows building setbacks to be modified through the PUD approval process. The area in front of the existing home is flat and there is limited flat pad area on the one-acre lot. Therefore, the applicants have proposed a 25-foot front setback along the private street of the one-acre lot. The existing home and proposed home will front onto a private street. Staff supports a reduction from 35 feet to 25 feet as proposed. The Specific Plan also requires a 40-foot rear yard setback. Most of the proposed DDA is located 65-feet from the southern property line, but the westernmost portion of the DDA is located 20-feet from the southern property line, near where the future agricultural barn may be located. As noted above, the Specific Plan allows building setbacks to be modified through the PUD approval process. Staff believes that the proposed 20-foot setback to the southern property PUD-32 Page - 9 - November 14, 2007