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Mountain House Specific Plan III ........................................................................................................................................................................ CHAPTER TWO: COMMUNITY VISION 2.1 Master Plan Summary Mountain House is envisioned as a new self-sufficient community offering employment, goods, services, and recreation. Land use and circulation are designed to encourage walking,bicycling, and transit use in a highly landscaped,visually attractive community. Mountain House will also provide a diversity of housing types, employment opportunities and recreational amenities for its residents. In the tradition of California Central Valley towns,Mountain House is designed as a community of pedestrian-scaled,tree- lined neighborhoods,each focused on the neighborhood core, with schools and parks linked to nearby shopping. ` 2.1.1 Specific Plan III Description Specific Plan III implements the Master Plan goals and objectives, and establishes the framework for land r use and development standards that will govern the community build-out of the neighborhoods within its planning area. Specific Plan III also added a major new land use objective to the Master Plan to accommodate a satellite campus within the community for Delta Community College. The Specific Plan r also identifies the public infrastructure and services needed to support development. It defines the permitted uses, development density,building setbacks, building heights,and other development ` standards to be utilized for projects in the planning area. 2.2 Master Plan Goals and Objectives The Master Plan, Sections 2.2 through 2.9, established the following goals and objectives for the ` Mountain House community,to be implemented over the years through the development of each specific plan area. Overall Goals • Create a high quality environment where people of all economic levels can live and work. Develop a distinct and unique new community that is separate from existing communities. • Develop Mountain House as a community that will accommodate a portion of the growth projected L by the County's General Plan 2010 in an orderly,well-organized development pattern. • Provide for a lifestyle that is less reliant on the automobile,more directed towards activities within ` the local community and neighborhoods, and more oriented toward the use of transit,bicycle and pedestrian transport. Draft 03/14/05 2-1 ...........................................................................................................................................................................