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8A Page 16E previously via a memo) Recommendation Response Matrix: Precise Plan Comments and Revisions The Preserve at Redwood Shores City Council. Meeting - 1.28.08 to City Counci (provided Amend the Precise Plan. A design guideline requiring use of appropriate plant materials wi be added to the Final Precise Plan. This comment will be further addressed as part of the City's Planned Community Permit review process. Response itemlThe use of appropriate and well-adapted plant materials should be required Comment Community Design, Townhomes, page 46, 7 - the master homeowner's association may impose a plant palette on the development that is not appropriate for the environment in Redwood Shores and has proven not to perform well. The Precise Plan, if approved, and subsequent city approvals, should supercede and override the imposition of a plant palette from the master homeowner's association. There are also a number of plant materials that the indigenous animals like to eat that should not be planted. # - 14 Amend the Precise Plan. The following text shall be added to Design Guideline 7 under Neighborhood Park and Public Access Trails (page 47) in the Final Precise Plan: "The location and design of all turf areas should be carefully considered to minimize their attractiveness to geese, and turf areas should only be installed if strategies and mitigations are proposed that adequately address the goose population." This comment will then be further addressed as part of the City's Planned Community Permit review process At the current level of planning, precise strategies for managing the goose population have not been developed. However, the addition of a design guideline requiring the careful consideration of the design and placement of turf areas would ensure that this concern is addressed in the future 15. Neighborhood Park and Public Access Trails item 7 - open turf areas are magnets for geese and their "leave behinds". The extent of their presence can either render turf areas non- useable, or create high maintenance costs for the city in clean-up and replacement. Turf areas should not only be carefully thought out as to their location, but mitigations to keep the geese population to a minimum should also be part of the plan so that the park is useable for active recreational uses 3 5 of Amend the Precise Plan. See recommendation for comment 13 See response to comment 13. 16. Neighborhood Park and Public Access Trails, page 47, item 8 - the work of the Recycled Water Task Force should be reviewed and incorporated in the Precise Plan.