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Mr. Jeff Smyser December 13, 2006 Page 6 a. CORE notes: The proposed development benefits greatly from existing tree stands. Neighborhood comments have made it clear that buffering is essential to maintaining quality of life in the area and CORE is committed to achieving it to the fullest extent possible. 6. Municipal utilities are essential to all new development a. CORE notes: The redevelopment and development success of the entire Site relies on the cost - effective and timely delivery of sanitary sewer and public water services. The Comforts of Home development is the best and only available option for the City to achieve the extension of these services. 7. Development should pursue urban form, fronting buildings along Hodgson Road and avoid lining it with parking lots. a. CORE notes: The Comforts of Home / CORE proposal provides some retail building along Hodgson Road, green space to soften the parking lot that lines Hodgson Road, and the senior living building bookends the development along Hodgson Road. 8. Traffic access comparisons between the west and east side; site configuration as an access issue; potential, but not confirmed new public roads to the east. a. CORE notes: Traffic analysis may show the intensity and timing of development of the west or east side is not reliant upon the physical configuration of a Site. Site appropriate development that is consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan and underlying zoning will require thoughtful and measured traffic infrastructure improvements, but such development must not be hampered by the assumption that someday there may be new public roads built on the east side, especially when property owners have made it clear they have no interest in developing their land at this time. 9. Stormwater management a. CORE notes: The Comforts of Home / CORE proposal includes appropriate ponding to meet surface water management needs and the aesthetic desires of the community. Finally, the City acknowledges that the concept plans in the Draft Master Planning Study are inexact and a collection of ideas. Id. p. 25. CORE seeks to continue to work with the City to achieve the goals for the area and urges the City to not adopt concept plans that are still evolving. • • •