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Financing Plan was approved to ensure that, as development commences in the Community, mechanisms are in place to implement the objectives of the Public Financing Plan. The Neighborhood F project will be subject to the impact fees, monthly charges and special taxes that have been and will be adopted to provide for the funding of public facilities and services required to serve the new development. Specifically, Neighborhood "F" is consisent with the Public Financing Plan due to the following: 1. Development within Neighborhood F will finance the full cost of infrastructure needed to serve the neighborhood, through a combination of impact fees, monthly utility charges, Mello-Roos special taxes and CSD special taxes. 2. Development within Neighborhood F will pay the cost of mitigating impacts on existing facilities, infrastructure and the environment and will support development of affordable housing through the payment of a variety of impact fees. 3. Infrastructure costs were allocated to properties within Neighborhood F based on the principle of benefit received. 4. Mechanisms have been established to assure timely construction of public improvements, dedication of necessary public lands and rights-of-way, and reimbursement of disproportionate costs. 5. The revenues generated to the County of San Joaquin from development of Neighborhood F will offset the cost of public services to ensure that the project has a positive fiscal impact on the County. Development Title Consistency. The Development Title consistency analysis found that the proposed project is consistentwith the San Joaquin County Development Title,which includes the Mountain House Development Title as an addendum,as conditioned to address the areas described below. Noise. The Mountain House Neighborhood "F"Project Initial Study,SCH#90020776 states that, to achieve an outdoor sound level of 60 dB Ldn along Mascot Boulevard and De Anza Boulevard, sound walls in excess of 7 feet in height would be required. Concerning this 60 dB Ldn threshold, Section 9-1025.9M (b)(2) of the Mountain House Development Title specifies the following: Noise levels from mobile noise sources in primary outdoor use areas of new residential development shall not exceed an LDN of sixty (60) dB unless the project design includes mitigation measures to reduce noise in outdoor activity areas to sixty (60) dB, or as reasonably close to sixty (60) dB as is possible. Where it is not possible to reduce noise in outdoor activity areas to an Ldn of sixty (60) dB or less, an exterior noise level of up to, but not exceeding, an Ldn of sixty-five (65) dB may be allowed by the Review Authority. Sound walls that exceed 7 feet in height would exceed the 7 foot height limit of the County's Development Title (see Section 9-1022.2 (c)(2)). In addition, the Development Title does not permit the construction of the 7-foot (or higher) sound walls located at the entries to Tradition Street and Prosperity Street from Mascot Boulevard, as indicated in Figure 4 of this staff report, since they provide fencing for the street side yard of residential lots. Section 9-1022.2 (c)(1) limits fencing height in street side yards to 3 feet. This requirement may be overridden if the fence is located a minimum of 10 feet from the property line (see Section 9-1022.3 (c)(2)). An amendment to the Master Plan and either an accompanying amendment to, or variance from, the Development Title height requirement would be required if 7 foot walls are to be constructed along street side yards. -22-