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1. Purpose and Intent 1.1 The Blanco River Village PDD (the "Project") is planned as a single contiguous project that is under unified control. The development will result in the creation of a mixed-use community that is compact and pedestrian scaled and is supportive of the older, established neighborhoods in the City of San Marcos (the "City"). 1.2. The Project contains a variety of uses: Low Density Residential Area (76.7 acres), Mixed-Use Area (14.1 acres) and City Parkland (13.0 acres) that will contribute to a neighborhood with opportunities for live, shop and recreational spaces. 1.3. The Project utilizes standards from other implemented traditional neighborhood developments (TND's) including Plum Creek (Kyle), Cedar Park Town Center (Cedar Park), Highland Park (Pflugerville) and Turtle Creek Village (Round Rock). The Project provides for a ,compact residential area, which permits for an innovative small lot design and alley service to garages using two different sized residential lots. This new residential design is combined with multi-family uses within the Mixed-Use Area to provide a variety of housing opportunities within the Project. 1.2. The Project also creates specialized street standards that have been designed to maintain efficient traffic circulation while promoting pedestrian use. 1.3. The Project land use plan provides for a network of open. spaces that will include pocket parks and parkland with frontage to the Blanco River that will bean amenity to the neighborhood and city. 1.4. The Project will encourage high quality development and innovative design through the adaptive re- use of the detention pond as a HOA-owned and maintained recreational amenity for the neighborhood. 1.5. The Project designates specific site development standards for the Property that address lot size and width, setbacks and building coverage limits that are in accordance with the intent of TND's and mixed- use infill development. The Developer seeks to create a mixed-use, pedestrian scaled environment that will promote compact development with an emphasis on reduction of automotive dependency and open space preservation. The Project land use plan establishes unique development standards, thereby promoting more compact site development that will promote a diversity of housing types and encourage economic development of the community. 2. Development Standards 2.1. General Project Description: - The Project will be developed for use as Low Density Residential (base zoning R-2 Single-Family Dwelling District, Mixed-Use (base zoning LB Limited Business District) and parkland (base zoning P Public District). The Property is currently undergoing voluntary annexation by the City and is not zoned. A portion of the Property currently lies within the FEMA 100 year flood plain. A flood plain modification will be necessary (CLOMR currently pending). A PDD will result in a superior development compared with a conventional subdivision due to the proximity of the Property to the city center and its location in relation to the Blanco River. The mixed-use concept of the Project allows the flexibility to make this development feasible while providing parkland to the city adjacent to the river that will provide an excellent buffer. 3 Blanco River Village PDD Development Standards