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constructed within the buffer area to connect the neighborhood park to the Spring Lake Preserve located to the northeast of the Project Site as shown on the Concept I"llan. This Project proposes to incorporate xahoUs innovative urban ahenksd, sustoiD8b}e and oUvipomnnentm||v conscious features including L|[} practices for vvabar quality and detention, site and building layouts that follow existing grades and work to preserve existing (R3e CmQopy, especially specimen trees, and enhanced o\neehanopevvith s\mapt trees, wide sidewalks and pedestrian oriented amenities. In oddihon, to encourage the use of alternative modes of transportation, the Project Site shall coordinate with the City, io conjunction vNththaQty^s North LBJ Drive Reconstruction Capital Improvements Project, t0 designate the location of o future bus stop facillity. The Project Site has been designed k} provide g transition in uses and densities both, within the project site and in [e|o1|on to existing adjacent uses. The proposed lower density in Zone 1 and attached [VwhOWseS@|omQ N. LBJ Drive provide an appropriate transition in uses between the existing single family residential and the existing high density apartments. Section 2: Existing Property Conditions Hillside Ranch Phase U is being developed at the northwest terminus of N. LBJ Drive and HmUamd Street on what has been historically on approximately 11 acre single, family hornewtead. 'The majority of the property is vacant nmUwa Hill Country terrain that slopes from N. LBJ Drive towards the Spring Lake Preserve tothe northeast. The Project Site is cVrreO1[yzamed Single Family Residential (8F'6) with a Future Land Use K8ap(FLUK4) designation of Low Density Residential. The Project Site has historically been designated for |Ovv density w|ng|o hann0v residential; however, there are multiple higher i0temaitvuoaoadimcentWnthimprupedvino|udhmghighdamodx residential multifamily fo the Southeast and m church located across N. LBJ Drive. Traditional P|ammiNQ practice recommends buffering |mvver intensity uses oUch as single family residential frorR higher intensity uses Such aommu|tifonniUyor nonresidential uses. This can typically hedone by either setting, aside natural landscape preservation buffers or by providing a transition in uses with o nnod|uno intensity use. Hillside Ranch Phase |U provides for atransition in density and uses that serve as am appropriate buffer between the od'uommt Umv« density single hanlUy residential uses and the high density residential uses. Providing medium density residential housing as well as a natural landscape buffer directly adjacent to the ex[o[imU minQ|o family residential establishes m combination ofbuffering through transition [n uses and preservation Vf a natural landscape buffer which rneets the goals of good planning practice. The following illustrates the existing zoning and land use map conditions on the property: 51