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safety risk or risk the health of the woodland. Since some of the poor health trees would help to screen the proposed home and other improvements, staff believes that poor health trees should not be removed unless the tree is dead, poses a safety risk, or its removal would improve the health of the woodland. Should additional trees be saved, then the applicants would be allowed to reduce the number of replacement trees so long as the specific plan's 6:1 replacement ratio was maintained. Landscaping The landscape plan proposes large, box-sized trees ranging from 24-inch to 60-inch size. Proposed species include coast live oak, strawberry tree, deodar cedar, CA pepper, Italian cypress, olive, and fern pine. Staff feels that the proposed landscape plan is attractive and contains sufficient landscape area around the estate home to help screen it from off-site views. Staff also feels that the density and species of trees and shrubs indicated on the plan are generally appropriate. However, staff does have a few recommended changes to the landscape plan: To improve screening of the estate home and private road from the Roberts and Reznick properties, staff recommends the size of coast live oak tree nos. R10 and R11 be increased to 60-inch box size and that tree nos. R12 - R17 be increased to 36-inch box size (three trees) and 48-inch box size (three trees). Staff believes that the two proposed 60-inch box coast live oak trees at the northeast side of the estate home (#'s R6 and R7) could be reduced to 24-inch box size. • The plan needs to specify the size, location, and species of the proposed shrubs. • The plan needs to show the location of the proposed groundcover. A condition of approval addresses these items. The final landscape plan would be subject to final review and approval by the Planning Director. Fencing and Entry Walls The proposed fencing complies with the VACSP Residential Design Guidelines which state that site perimeter and other outlying fencing should remain visually open (i.e., split-rail or wire- mesh) in order to minimize the visual "ribbon-like" effect of fencing on the hillsides. A condition of approval has been included to require that the fence posts be painted forest green to match the color of the existing fence posts between this property and the adjacent Bordeaux Country Estates subdivision. Staff notes that the adjacent property owners' approval will be needed before any new fencing could be placed on a common property line. If these approvals PUD-32 Page - 16 - November 14, 2007