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2. Executive Summary 2.2 – Project Description

Planning Area 5 (Single Family Neighborhood B) – 75 single-family detached or attached
condos with required parking (resident and guest parking) on approximately 10.0 acres.
Planning Area 5 is located in the eastern and northern portions of the Project site.

The Project includes a total of 580 residential units. There are 123 mobile homes on-site that would
be removed and replaced by the Project. Vehicular access to the Project site would come from
Soledad Canyon Road and Sand Canyon Road. Two private driveways/streets would access
Planning Area 1 (Commercial) from Soledad Canyon Road and Sand Canyon Road. Two private
streets would access the remaining Planning Areas from Sand Canyon Road.

The Project would include grading approximately 2.2 million cubic yards of cut and fill balanced
on-site. Additional remedial grading (850,000 cubic yards) would be necessary to accommodate the
Project.

2.2-2 Project Objectives

The Applicant’s Objectives for the proposed Project are as follows:

Land Use Planning Objectives

1. Create a new mixed-use community with connected neighborhoods that provides for
residential, commercial and recreational uses in close proximity to each other.
2. Provide a sensitive and compatible Project through the use of appropriate grading,

landscape, and water quality methods.
3. Provide development and transitional land use patterns that do not conflict with

surrounding communities and land uses.
4. Arrange land uses to reduce vehicle miles traveled and energy consumption, and to
encourage pedestrian mobility.

5. Design neighborhoods to create a unique identity and sense of place.

6. Design neighborhoods to locate a variety of residential and non-residential land uses in
close proximity to each other and major road corridors, transit, and trails.

7. Provide a rich set of public spaces.

8. Implement sustainable development principles, including greater energy efficiency,
waste reduction, drought-tolerant landscaping, use of water efficiency measures, and
use of recycled materials and renewable energy sources.
9. Create and enhance opportunities for non-vehicular travel and encourage pedestrian
mobility by providing an internal pedestrian circulation system that links residential
neighborhoods to on-site recreation areas, regional trail systems, and neighborhood
retail/commercial areas.

Tebo Environmental Consulting, Inc. Sand Canyon Plaza Mixed-Use Project Draft EIR
March 2017 2-2