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The golf course is laid out to be an integral part of the neighborhood's country club environment. The goal is to provide high golfing value, user-oriented recreational facilities. The golf course would contribute greatly to the sense of openness and scenic amenity. Excavated lakes and ponds will be created to serve as hazards, irrigation reservoirs, and storm water basins and the artificial wetlands of the nature preserve. Grading will distribute the dug material into mounds and swales, to provide topographical relief. Cart paths will meander along the full length of the course. The±10 acre golf clubhouse site has been centrally located to be the focus of the project and to be near the beginning and ending of returning nine hole courses. Another key benefit of this central location is good vehicular access from the new Koster Road. The clubhouse will include the following facilities: • Men's and women's locker rooms, restrooms and shower • Dining room (with small meeting room) and kitchen • Golf shop and control center • Small cocktail lounge • Meeting rooms Total building space for these various activities is approximately 15,000 square feet. A real estate sales office will be included in the clubhouse building in the project's early stage. A practice range occupying about six acres will be included as part of the clubhouse complex. The cart storage area of about 5,000 square feet would be located adjacent to the clubhouse. A maintenance building of about 5,000 square feet to provide space for maintenance equipment, storage of chemicals, fertilizers, workshop and other employee functions would be located at the edge of the clubhouse complex. The maintenance building would be surrounded by the maintenance yard. Landscape Greenways. These are proposed between the residential villages by the Concept Site Plan as part of the open space package of Rancho San Joaquin. A jogging course and a system of bike and pedestrian pathways will traverse these landscape greenways. A Master Landscape Plan will be prepared to set out a distinctive landscape concept for these landscape corridors. Such Plan will be submitted for County review at the Tentative Map stage. Nature Preserve. The Concept Site Plan proposes the "re-creation" of an original Central Valley wetlands with a surrounding open space buffer area as a Nature Preserve within the project's open space system. A later section of this document (Appendix B) contains a fuller description of the Nature Preserve and the biological criteria necessary to ensure its environmental performance. The 102 acre Nature Preserve site would be donated to a private conservation organization or a public agency for this purpose. The project developer will seek an agreement with such organization or agency to initially assist him in the preparation of a wetlands plan and then to construct and manage the Nature Preserve in perpetuity. It is suggested that the County's conditions for development require the preparation of wetland performance standards for the protection and management of the Nature Preserve. The purpose of such standards will be to ensure that project development and operations will not have adverse effects upon the ecological and hydrologic characteristics of the wetland. The proposed location and size of the Nature Preserve and its relation to other project and vicinity uses has been determined to be environmentally viable by the project team biologist. 18