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• Village of Hardwood Creek r.r— - LANDFORM MINNEAPOLIS• PHOENIX August 15, 2005 Landscaping The project team is working to create an integrated landscape theme throughout the project, including plantings, lighting, streetscape and open space design. The main entrances to the site are planned as boulevard streets with landscaped medians. The entrances to the development will have significant landscaping and a development identification sign to create a unique entry feature. Our landscape concept will emphasize streetscaping to create a welcoming entrance into the main development and individual neighborhoods within Village of Hardwood Creek. The landscape concept emphasizes significant water features, natural plantings in the open spaces and more formal plantings within the development. The plan emphasizes street plantings, but will also provide extensive landscaping throughout the development. The plan will incorporate native plant material wherever possible. Streets /Access The neighborhood has been planned with a street connection to the north to allow for future access to that property via a new north -south collector road. The will have two accesses from County Road 21, but the main access is planned via the new north - south collector road with an intersection at County Road 14. Successful commercial development projects require direct access via a frontage road dose to high traffic roadways. The site has excellent visibility from I -35E, which is the highest traffic road nearest the property, and direct access to the frontage road closest to I -35E will be important. While the subject property does not extend south to County Road 14, we have a general access easement from the adjacent properties and we are working with the landowners to the south to try to establish the street connection. Final site plan design cannot be completed until the access location to the south is finalized. Covenants /Association Documents Except for the public park proposed in the west - central portion of the site, all open space will be owned and maintained by an association. Village of Hardwood Creek will have a master association that will maintain the shared common areas. Within the master association there will be a number of sub - associations: the commercial association will maintain the common areas within the commercial portion of the site and homeowners associations will be created for individual neighborhoods to maintain the common space with their neighborhoods. Page 3