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B.A. - Page 194* <br />8.A. - Page 356 <br />Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council <br />August 15, 2021 <br />Page 3 <br />Policy BE &2- Provide connections to eomanacial <br />schools, trails, and local pats. <br />Policy BR 8 3: Address ovarsiW and out-ofade <br />residential development, including appropriate <br />neigbborhood building scale and wapatibility, <br />Other important provisions of the t imall Pian must inform any enviranatentel review of <br />project proposed in the hillside neigbbea'hood area. For example, l'wV= NR -48 pmvklm a <br />spacial faaus on the Bmerald Hills nW&whood as a recommended site fur additional aak tree <br />plantings. Furdw, the neighborhood is de "bed in the General Plea's Historic Resources <br />element in lit of the significant history associated with the sea. <br />(b) Agingmt Commaiggs Have ReogggW The Uxdme M Swdthy Nature <br />of the Area. <br />Adjacent munidpalities have also recognized the w4se, and seasiitive nature of the BmwWd <br />]fulls arca. The Town of Woodside has adopted an Emuesold Lake Hills Specifitc flan, wbich, <br />recogizad the very small size of dw lots in ides "division and resWcta oversized developmea. <br />indeed, Woodside recognized dent bmuse of tie very small size of the Tats (as contrived In <br />MA numy of the residences in the area word built on two or more lots. (See Emerald lake <br />Hilly Specifia Plan, P. 1.) <br />Simnilariy, the County of Sarn Mato has an adopted Emerald Lake Hills Community Platt, which <br />describes the Emerald Lake Hills area as follows: <br />Initial subdlvidm In Ruserald ]Gabe. iiia: occurred with few <br />regulatory controls and created far too namy lots. 1VFaAy of the <br />lor are poorly designed in relation to the na ural faubm <br />found In the ares:. Svvwal excessively narrow Ion lie in <br />ffWmambeds and/or on :beep rocky slopes, Some very smaU lob <br />an the .s eepest hillsides contain to little as 2,500 sq. ft >"Lfle <br />edwra contata 2.8,000 or 20,000 sq. ft but have eontaurs dent <br />rewire extensive grading and vegettstion removal in order to <br />develop them. <br />(San Mateo County Area plan Summary, p. 2.2, esnph. added.) The County's plan also identifies <br />significant roadway, water supply and wastewater, and fire mm dams in the Emerald <br />Lake Hills vena. <br />