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Mountain House Specific Plan III ........................................................................................................................................................................... neighborhood park is addressed by the Neighborhood Center Plan, Section 4.3. The community park in the center of Neighborhood A/B, the western neighborhood park and the open space corridors are addressed in Chapter 7. The location for the Neighborhood Center with its two K-8 schools was chosen to address several siting considerations including arterial road locations, setbacks associated with the high pressure gas and oil pipelines running through the southern area of Specific Plan III, setbacks from the electrical transmission lines running through the center of Specific Plan III, setbacks from I-205, and setbacks from the Delta- Mendota Canal. The two K-8 schools were located in one consolidated Neighborhood Center to meet state setback criteria from the facilities listed above,to take advantage of the open space corridor as a safe walk to school route,to minimize the number of children who would need to cross an arterial road to get to school, and to incorporate a common neighborhood park located on the open space corridor and separating the two schools. The Community Park which is located to the southwest on Central Parkway across from the Community College balances the location of Neighborhood Center within Neighborhood A/B. The Community Park, Neighborhood Park within Neighborhood A/B Center and a 2.5-acre Neighborhood Park located west of Central Parkway and south of Grant Line Village ensure that most homes are within easy walking or _ bicycling distance to a park. All parks within Neighborhood A/B are also on the open space corridors. The Community Park's location across from the Community College allows for convenient joint use of recreation facilities. The church site is located on the southeast comer of Grant Line Road and De Anza Blvd. to provide high visual and traffic access from the arterial streets,and to minimize conflicts with the residential uses located along the west side of De Anza Blvd. A sound wall along a substantial portion of the west side of De Anza Blvd. will further minimize any potential lighting and noise conflicts with single family residential uses. The location of the stormwater quality treatment basin is intended to provide an enhanced landscaped — entry to the Neighborhood and be located adjacent to the stormwater mains running along Central Parkway. Coordination with the comer treatment at Grant Line Road and Central Parkway will allow a — smooth transition with the nearby neighborhood entries,as well as the Central Parkway and Grant Line Road street right-of-way landscaping. The basin is to exhibit native planting with an informal array of _ both vertical and spreading tree species, and abundant shrubs and groundcover. 4-50 Draft 03/14/05 ............................................ .................. ..........................................................................................................