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• Provide a relief valve over the next two 0 Create a balanced community offering <br /> decades for the two counties by accommo- jobs,housing, and local service retail while <br /> dating controlled and managed growth in a reducing regional trips and mitigating future <br /> fiscally self-sufficient planned community traffic impacts. <br /> as an alternative to uncontrolled, unplanned <br /> subdivisions with poor services and nega- Provide quality schools,parks, cultural <br /> tive fiscal impacts on all residents. and community facilities via a fiscal and or- <br /> ganizational structure set up to pay in full <br /> 2. The Mountain House Area is the best for its own services and to function as a <br /> location for a planned community. positive fiscal asset to the two counties. <br /> • Locate near the Interstate 580/205 Further the San Joaquin Valley's eco- <br /> corridor where multi-modal transportation nomic transition from an agricultural <br /> facilities and multiple access points are economy to a mixed economy without <br /> available to serve land uses, and where scattered residential and business locations <br /> commuters from the Tri-Valley Area job impacting agriculture. <br /> centers are intercepted before penetrating <br /> into the heartland of the San Joaquin Valley. Provide water service to the planned <br /> community through an existing water <br /> • Provide a high level of roads, transit district that is capable of serving urban land <br /> and transportation services within the com- uses, and provide a self-contained sewer <br /> munity connecting to the regional roadway treatment system with managed effluent <br /> and transit systems; provide a commuter disposal to meet the highest water quality <br /> transit facility at 1-580 near Grant Line standards. <br /> Road as part of the plan. <br /> • Provide a public boat marina and other <br /> • Locate in one of the region's least facilities on Old River as added recreation <br /> desirable areas for on-going agricultural op- for the two counties. <br /> erations. <br /> • Protect Mountain House Creek and <br /> 3. A planned community provides a provide open space and conservation areas <br /> balance of jobs, housing and community throughout the planned community. <br /> services,and is structured to "pay as it <br /> grows." <br /> Introduction <br /> 1.3 <br />