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Stacy Higa, Chairman and Members of the County Council Page 2 Commercial spaces for medical, office, retail, classrooms and health related uses and the University Village Inn on approximately 102 acres. This area includes village and community commercial uses such as village retail and services, village inn, residential mixed use and industrial mixed use. A maximum of 85 of the proposed 930 residential units are planned for mixed use with an additional 120 visitor units in the University Village Inn. 4. 18 -hole golf course on approximately 180 acres. The golf course will be developed and maintained in accordance with Audubon International's Signature Silver Program standards. 5. Active and passive parks (Open, Park and Preservation) on approximately 177.8 acres. This "Constraints Area" includes the 65 -acre dry forest preserve, archaeological sites/cave and park areas. 6. Trail system. 7. Minimum of 100 affordable housing units on-site; 50 for rent and 50 for sale. An estimated 1,841 jobs will be created in commercial, business and education activities upon project completion. The project will be developed in three phases taking approximately 10 years at over $300,000,000.00. Phase I involves infrastructure improvements; Phase II - residential improvements and Phase III - Multiple Family and commercial improvements. The applicant's overall objective is to develop a master planned community with a mix of uses. The applicant also requests variances from Chapter 23 (Subdivision Code) and Chapter 25 (Zoning Code). The proposed project follows a guiding design principle generally referred to as "New Urbanism", which emphasizes a pedestrian orientation in a village setting. The proposed variances fall into two general categories: 1) those that that facilitate development of the higher density town and residential center; and 2) those that maximize the development of the lower density golf -oriented residential lots. The applicant states that the variances relating to minimum block size, residential lot size, residential lot width and street frontage, street right-of-ways, street lighting, and the request to allow alleys in a residential development area all necessary to implement the New Urbanism philosophy. By Docket No. A03-744 dated May 19, 2005 the State Land Use Commission approved the redesignation of the property from the Conservation and Agricultural districts to the Urban district. In order to consider an area for any type of zoning designation, the applicable goals, policies and standards of the General Plan must be adequately addressed. It is only