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engine, subject to a reimbursement agreement, and to have it delivered to the LFPD ready to be placed in service prior to the beginning of construction activity on the site. Residential Fire Sprinklers All structures, including primary and accessory structures which may/may not be enclosed, shall be equipped with automatic fire sprinkler protection, with a minimum fire flow of 2,000 g.p.m. at 20 lbs. per square inch pressure. This is an increase of 500 g.p.m. over the minimum residential development standards due to the potential fire flow demands required in the event of a wildland fire. Emergency Vehicle Access The City is sensitive to the importance of requiring adequate access to developments that may be adjacent to large tracts of open space areas that could be difficult to access in the event there may be an emergency, whether that emergency is a fire, a landslide, an earthquake, or other. The City has had a policy in the more recent past requiring two locations of ingress and egress from a site that poses concerns related to emergency services, albeit there are many examples in the City that do not currently have this level of protection. The subject site was reviewed by staff and determined that this site has pre-existing access points which would need to be improved from the collector streets in the adjacent subdivisions. One point of access is located as an extension from Benedict Court lying midway along the westerly boundary of the site which terminates at the Kottinger Ranch water tank, and the other access point is located on a public access easement that begins at the existing Grey Eagle Court cul-de-sac (within the Grey Eagle Estates subdivision), continues beyond the existing Grey Eagle water tank, and continues to the northern property line of the project site. Although portions of these easements are improved, these points of access are currently unimproved to the optimal standard of a 20 foot wide paved roadway sustaining up to a 50,000 pound load. Both of these easements have been recorded with the respective tract maps for Kottinger Ranch and for Grey Eagle Estates, thus ensuring the ability of City police and fire to reach residents in a timely fashion in the event of an untoward incident. During the process of evaluating the project and particularly the environmentally preferred alternative, which significantly reduced the number of homes from 98 to 51, staff from all departments discussed the optimal location(s) for emergency access and found that the largest concern is actual response time. This response time is quicker from the Grey Eagle Estates point of access than the Benedict Court access, however, there is value in having both available for City use. The Kottinger Ranch and Grey Eagle Estates residents have engaged in considerable discussions with City staff in defining what respective concerns exist independent of each other. Those discussions have identified various issues which include: a desire to not have only one neighborhood bear the "burden" of emergency access to the proposed subject site; PUD-33 Page 39 of 59 June 13, 2007