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Mountain House Specific Plan III ....................................................................................................................................................................I...... CHAPTER FIVE: EDUCATION, CHILD CARE AND LIBRARY SERVICES 5.1 Introduction ` This chapter summarizes relevant Master Plan provisions related to education,child care,and library services,and describes implementation that will occur as a part of Specific Plan I11. L 5.2 Schools 5.2.1 Master Plan Summary The school districts serving Mountain House are Lammersville Elementary School District(LESD)for .. grades K-8 and Tracy Joint Union High School District for grades 9-12. The districts will provide the schools as needed. Interim facilities at existing schools will be provided before the first on-site schools are completed The community will be designed for integration of school and other community facilities for compatible joint operation and shared maintenance costs. Links between school facilities and other services and users are to be promoted for a variety of uses as outlined in the Master Plan. Twelve K-8 schools are to be sited to serve the 10 proposed neighborhoods. The K-8 sites are to be located in neighborhood centers within%mile walking distance of the substantial majority of homes in the neighborhood to facilitate pedestrian circulation and reinforce neighborhood structure. K-8 school core facilities shall be located as far as practical from commercial areas,be buffered from commercial uses with playfields and park,and have access from different streets. Each site shall contain up to 16 V acres. In addition,each K-8 school shall have shared use of an adjacent 2.5 acres of neighborhood park for athletic fields that is separated from the school core facilities by landscaping, trees, or low fencing that ` allows convenient access. Each K-8 school will accommodate the student generation of its neighborhood, targeted to an optimum of approximately 750 students,with a maximum of 1,100 students. As required by the Master Plan,the LESD has prepared a comprehensive report on educational facilities for the entire Mountain House community. The report,Master Educational Specifications for K-8 r Elementary Schools in the Mountain House Master Plan, addresses education program,building program, implementation strategies,and background information. School facility construction plans are phased and will be triggered by development milestones identified by the report. One high school will be sited in Mountain House to provide efficient access to all portions of the community,and serve the expected distribution of high school students. The high school site shall contain Draft 03/14/05 5-1 ...........................................................................................................................................................................