SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS (8-22-17)

Capital Hill PUD Page 66 of 67 Planned Unit Development Application - Tentative Stage - Written Statement March 3, 2017 (Revised:June 19, 2017, August 22, 2017) The expectation with respect to trees is to save healthy trees by designing around them and to place site elements (like roads, utilities, home sites) where trees are of a lesser quality. That just isn't how nature is arranged, with respect to development that is appropriate considering the base zone. The deference in site design is with respect to stress (access), connectivity, and emergency vehicle access. If significant, healthy trees can be preserved, then they will be. In this case, we chose to preserve large areas of vegetation, regardless of the health of the trees. As a result of both common sense and a desire for minimal disturbance to the site, the private road is placed higher up on the site. This ensures the road remains within the footprint of existing circulation on-site and in an area that would cause the least amount of cut and fill and erosion. Placing this road further east would simply result in more cut and fill and vegetation removal with no added benefit. Preserving approximately 30% of the site along the east boundary allowed us to combine this area with the existing forested area on the Ribbon Trail property (200 feet wide) to create one larger preserved area. This benefits the proposed development by preserving one of the existing amenities on the site (vegetation), provides some privacy for the proposed lots, and also visually protects the Ribbon Trail visually from the proposed development. It also benefits the existing vegetation by preserving existing soil conditions and root systems, eliminating erosion, and diminishing potential windthrow for trees that are used to being in a protected group. Fire Safety Removing some of the existing vegetation (i.e. trees and understory) for the construction of homes also serves the purpose of stronger fire safety. This hill has been accumulating fire fuel on the ground floor for decades and as such, the owner received (pre-recession) a letter from the county suggesting that tree thinning and understory clearing would help with fire safety for the existing residential dwellings on the hill. They also offered to assist with the removal of some of the vegetation. Constructing new homes and roads on the hill will require removal of some of the existing trees and the understory. Thoughtful planning by the owner of each of the lots, along with the CCRs that will guide the re-vegetating of the properties, will reduce the fire hazard that currently exists on this hill for existing residents and future residents. All of the homes will be required to have sprinkler systems, further adding to the fire safety of this area. • Storm drainage The handling of the storm drainage is regulated by the land use code and will meet the storm water criteria found in relevant sections of the land use code. In that context, there are no issues with this development. All storm water is treated for quality and then conveyed to an approved system. Post development flows will not exceed pre-development flows. There are no additional impacts created by this development with respect to stormwater. See attached Stormwater Management Plan and Drainage Study report. The land use code provides for compatibility when a development meets the criterion. (13)lf the tentative PUD application proposes a land division, nothing in the approval of the tentative application exempts future land divisions from compliance with state or local surveying requirements. The tentative PUD application proposes a land division and the approval of the tentative PUD will not exempt future land divisions from compliance with state or local surveying requirements. Schirmer Satre Group • 375 West 4 m Avenue, Suite 201, Eugene, OR 97401 • (541) 686-4540