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3. Benefits and Advantages for the City of San Marcos <br />Paso Robles is a master planned community that results in a higher quality <br />development for the City of San Marcos than would be achieved with conventional <br />zoning. The benefits and advantages to the City include: <br />1. Paso Robles is proposed by Carma, a company that has successfully built <br />award -winning master planned communities in the United States and <br />Canada. <br />2. A neighborhood -based development centered on a network of trails <br />connecting open space and other community amenities. <br />3. A development that respects the natural environment and will be developed <br />utilizing best management practices that protect water quality and help <br />prevent degradation of surface and groundwater and protects karstfeatures. <br />4. A development that incorporates existing trees, respects the natural <br />topography of the land, preserves magnificent Texas hill country views and <br />sites homes and community amenities to take advantage of these features. <br />5. Paso Robles will feature a variety of residential housing, including developing <br />a majority of the community for active adults, thereby enhancing the City's <br />ability to diversify its population by providing quality, well planned housing for <br />the fast growing retirement age population and providing more choices and <br />recreational opportunities for a greater number of people. <br />6. Paso Robles provides the following significant recreational facilities and <br />opportunities: <br />a. Parks (Private) <br />b. Common areas (Private and publicly accessible) <br />c. Pocket parks (Private) <br />d. Significant parkway and trail systems (Public) <br />e. Golf course (publicly accessible) <br />f. Walkability (Private and publicly accessible) <br />g. Connectivity (Private and publicly accessible) <br />h. Passive recreational opportunities (Private and publicly accessible) <br />i. Preserved native vegetation (Private and publicly accessible) <br />j. Preserved natural creeks (publicly accessible) <br />k. Security <br />7. Paso Robles features roadways and circulation systems that are superiorto <br />conventional residential requirements along with additional capacity to <br />service adjacent properties and future City growth. <br />8. Paso Robles will include 349.7 acres of open space, or 26.1 % of the total <br />project. <br />9. Paso Robles provides an overall cap of 3,150 residential dwelling units in the <br />mixed use (MU) district. The proposed 3,150 dwelling units in the mixed use <br />(MU) district are approximately 18% less than would normally be allowed <br />under the City of San Marcos Land Development Code for the mixed use <br />(MU) area. <br />10. If the property were fully built out as otherwise permitted by the City's Land <br />Development Code, 4,014 dwelling units would be permitted and only 10% <br />open space would be required, minimal landscaping and amenities and <br />without best management practices. <br />11. Paso Robles proposes additional utility capacity that is not otherwise required <br />by the City of San Marcos in a conventional development. <br />-12- <br />