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• All soils in planting areas should be protected from compaction. Sequencing and best management practices should address this. Regardless, the important issues are water availability, plant bed design, and maintenance. Irrigation should be available to all of the areas, even the raingarden areas. New plants in future redesign (even if they are native deep- rooted plants) need establishment water. All planting beds should be in a maintenance budget and schedule. Planting beds should be on a regular schedule for mulch maintenance. Native or raingarden areas should have a high degree of potted plants used in the initial planting. All tree areas should have water availability. If possible, CU Soils (structural soils should be incorporated into tree planting areas that have limited root space. CU Soils will enable longer lived, faster growing, and healthier trees in these areas. Planting baskets in the streetscape can be very nice, but again should have a drip irrigation line. These lines can be routed up lighting poles. Lighting the streetscape will most likely be desired. The use of lower intensity, directional accent lighting should be used. I think this can be designed so there is a minimum to no noticeable impact. The maintenance of all planting areas need to be incorporated into a well thought out common and master plan. This plan should be part of the BPM. BMP's should have a definitive and decisive implementation budget and schedule built into the project. Trails are an important part of this plan. All trails should be placed in a fashion that minimizes impacts to edge areas, at the same time instilling a high level of resource experience for users. For example, there is a blue joint wetland to the SE. The trail should stay off the edge , yet allow users to enjoy this feature, Environmental Board Comments: