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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 "). The City Council shall adopt these development standards (the "Development Standards ") by ordinance (as amended from time to time, the "Ordinance "). The Ordinance amends and restates (i) City Ordinance 2004 -61 (the "2004 Blanco River Village Ordinance ") and (ii) City Ordinance 2008 -49 (the "2008 Blanco River Village Ordinance "), and these development standards amend and restate the development standards adopted in connection with and pursuant to the 2004 Blanco River Village Ordinance and the 2008 Blanco River Village Ordinance. 1.2. The Project contains a variety of uses: Low Density SF4.5 Residential Area (approximately 66.336 acres) and MF -12 Multi- Family Residential (Living Court) Area (approximately 10.347 acres, and total residential of 76.683 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 several 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. 1.4. The Project also creates specialized street standards that have been designed to maintain efficient traffic circulation while promoting pedestrian use. 1.5. The Project's land use plan (attached as Exhibit `B" to the Ordinance and these Development Standards) provides for a network of open spaces that will include pocket parks and parkland with frontage to the Blanco River that will be an amenity to the neighborhood and city. 1.6. The Project will encourage high quality development and innovative design through the adaptive reuse of the detention pond serving the residential area as a HOA -owned and maintained recreational amenity for the neighborhood. A second detention pond serving the Mixed -Use Area shall be constructed and maintained as a recreational amenity. 1.7. The owner and any agent of the owner shall be legally responsible for directly or indirectly allowing, permitting, causing or failing to prohibit residential use of a single family residential dwelling in this area by more than two unrelated individuals in accordance with the City of San Marcos Land Development Code Section 4.3.4.5 Occupancy Restrictions. 1.8. 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's 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. 1.9. Words and terms used herein, not specifically defined in this section, shall have their usual force and meaning, or as defined in the San Marcos City Code, hereinafter referred to as the "City Code ". For the purposes of these Development Standards and the Ordinance, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section: BLANco RIVER VILLAGE Page 2 PDD Development Standards 7535846v.6