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MOUNTAIN HOUSE PROPOSED MACHADO TENTATIVE MAP 4. ENVIRONMENTAL CHECKLIST <br /> 4.1 AESTHETICS <br /> The Mountain House Community Services <br /> %W District(MHCSD)has adopted the Mountain <br /> %W House Community Services District Design <br /> Manual (MHSD, 1999) which addresses design <br /> elements for public improvements. Residential <br /> `' Design Guidelines have been prepared for the <br /> ` College Park at Mountain House area, which <br /> %W includes the proposed project. (The Community <br /> Development Department has accepted these <br /> 4 guidelines as complete.) In addition to the above <br /> 1 documents, the proposed project will be subject to <br /> a design review process that will include review <br /> Figure 4-3 Views of abandoned trailers by the Mountain House Design Consistency <br /> ` as seen from Mountain House Parkway Review Committee(DCRC). This committee will <br /> review Tentative Maps and design guidelines for <br /> private development, and all development applications and building permits, to ensure that <br /> projects are consistent with the policies and design requirements of the Master Plan, Specific <br /> �r Plan III, Development Title, and other Community Approvals. <br /> V <br /> SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS IDENTIFIED IN 2005 SPIIIEIR <br /> The SPUMIR identified the following significant unavoidable impact and significant impact <br /> *AW pertaining to visual impacts: <br /> V <br /> Impact 4.14-1: Visual Quality—Alteration of Visual Character along Grant <br /> Line Road from Tree Removal. Approximately 188 mature trees along Grant Line <br /> V. Road would be removed,altering the visual character along the roadway. <br /> d <br /> `, Impact 4.14-2: Visual Quality—Alteration of a Scenic Vista from Mountain <br /> House Parkway. The development of a 30-acre interim recycled water storage pond <br /> %W on the Pombo property could affect the scenic vista across the property currently <br /> `, viewed by motorists on Mountain House Parkway. <br /> %W The remaining impacts were considered to be less than significant and focused on the <br /> construction of 5-to 7-foot-high soundwalls, and the generation of new light and glare from <br /> outdoor recreational facilities at the community park. None of these impacts were directed at <br /> the development of the project site. <br /> *, MITIGATION MEASURES IDENTIFIED IN 2005 SPIIIEIR <br /> %W Although the College Park developers will be required to plant 50-gallon size trees on both <br /> sides of Grant Line Road and in the median strip between the Alameda County line and the <br /> Mountain House Parkway, the mitigation will not reduce the impact to a less-than-significant <br /> level. The mitigation measures directed at the alteration of a scenic vista from Mountain <br /> House Parkway call for landscaping and edge treatments required by the MHMP and the <br /> #4W <br /> 4-3 <br />