Ord 2013-026/Approving amended and restated PDD for the McCarty Commons

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Sub -area "C" or "D ", whichever develops first, is filed. The Open Space may include improvements such as trails, ponds with fountains, lighting, park benches, landscaping, irrigation, public art and accessory building structures such as gazebos. The documents forming the "POA" and the recreation easement shall be approved by the San Marcos City Attorney, Parks and Recreation Commission and the P &Z prior to final platting of either Sub -Area "C" or "D" (whichever is developed first). 3.4 Detention and Landscape Regulations. Exceptions to the LDC Standards are as follows: 3.4.1 Detention ponds designed as water features shall not be required to have a security fence around its perimeter. 3.4.2 Detention ponds shall not be allowed within a floodway or water quality zone, but may be allowed within a floodplain or buffer zone as long as the ponds do not increase the base flood elevation of the floodplain or floodway. 3.4.3 Large shade trees are not required for parking lots when the parking areas are located in utility easements under overhead electric lines. Small ornamental trees may be substituted. 4. Park Land and Open Space 4.1 The 57.5 acres, more or less, of Open Space (Shown as Sub -Area "E" on Exhibit "B ") will be owned and maintained by the POA and open to the general public including the following: 4.1.1 A minimum of one pedestrian access point from Sub -Areas "A -2" and "B" to the Open Space shall be open to the general public and one pedestrian access point from Sub -Area "C" shall be open to the general public. 4.1.2 Approximately 7.5 acres of drainage swale and easements. 4.1.3 Approximately 10 acres of detention ponds yielding about 40 acres of net useable park land and open space suitable for use in active programmed park activities and passive park areas. 4.1.4 The developer will construct an on -site trail system consisting of an eight foot (8') wide asphalt (or similar material to be approved by the City) trail, including portions of the trail located in Sub -Area "E" that are adjacent to the Sub -Area proposed for development. The trail may be constructed in phases prior to or concurrently with the respective development of each Sub -Area. The trail system shall be open to the public and contained within a Public Access Easement. The Public Access Easement shall be referenced by plat note and conveyed to the City prior to issuance of a site preparation permit for each respective Sub -Area. A master plan of the trail system is shown on the Concept Plan. 4.1.5 Concurrent with the first development of Sub -Areas "A -1" "A -2" and "B ", the developer of each respective Sub -Area will coordinate with the City to construct portions of a trail to connect the intersection of McCarty Lane and 1 -35 with the Outlet Mall (subject to the Outlet Mall approval) running generally east -west along the south side of McCarty Lane, then south along the west side of Cottonwood Creek to the Outlet Mall, as generally shown on the Concept Plan. Sub -Area "A -2" and "B" will also provide a minimum of one trail connection to Sub -Area "E ". 4.1.6 Concurrent with the first development of Sub -Areas "C" and /or "D ", the developer will construct a trail that will make a loop of about one mile in length. The trail loop will be on the east side of Cottonwood Creek along Sub -Area "C" and extend into development tracts within Sub -Areas "C" and "D ". This phase of the trail