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Mountain House Specific Plan III ........................................................................................................................................................................... Open Space The landscape concept for the Specific Plan III open space corridor system consists of informal groupings of canopy trees located around the perimeter areas,the community park, the neighborhood open space corridor system within the power and gas line easements,and continuing into the Neighborhood Parks extending into the school play areas.Large canopy trees will be the dominant tree theme, maximizing shade and cooling opportunities. Vertical accent trees may be used as background features or to identify high use areas in the park interior. Additionally flowering deciduous trees may be used in accent conditions to vary the evergreen effect.The ground plane will be predominantly rolling lawn and areas of mass planting shrubs and groundcover used to screen residential or direct pedestrian traffic along trail systems. Background trees should be vertical buffer trees with evergreen foreground massing trees to i provide layered buffer conditions. Effort should be made to select native,drought-tolerant shrubs and groundcovers. All plantings in public open space corridor areas shall be consistent with the MHCSD — Design Manual and the tree palettes in the Design Manual. All plantings in private yards and open space corridor areas shall be consistent with the County approved Design Guidelines for that subdivision or project. Schools and Public Facility Landscape The public facility landscape features will include low maintenance, large spreading canopy of trees and a predominant lawn landscape. The adjacent road landscape would also reflect the tree theme and palette. Evergreen accent trees will be provided at selected areas. A double row of canopy trees is provided adjacent to the school with a decomposed granite (DG)trail. All plantings in public school and Public — Facility areas shall be consistent with the MHCSD Design Manual. All plantings in private schools shall be consistent with the County-approved Design Guidelines for that project.The Community College perimeter and entrances shall meet the requirements set forth in the Delta College Design Manual. Typical School Edge Condition 4.14 Draft 03/14/05 .................................................................. ..........................................................................................................