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5. The Planned Development Project Plan will provide superior urban design in comparison with the development under the base district zoning regulations. The proposed planned development modification, to construct gates and fences to the entry of the Heron Bay neighborhood, would not provide superior urban design in comparison with development under the Residential base district. The approved Planned Development, PD -91-3, was approved as an open and non -gated neighborhood. The approval was intended not to isolate the neighborhood from the immediate community. The proposed gates and fencing would be contrary to approved PD and gate a single-family residential neighborhood which is not typical in the City. The proposal would establish an undesirable precedent in the City's efforts to plan residential neighborhoods, and specifically single- family neighborhoods in the City which are typically not gated. 6. The Planned Development Project includes adequate provisions for utilities, services, and emergency vehicle access; and that public service demands will not exceed the capacity of the existing and planned systems. The proposed project has been designed to generally meet emergency vehicle access requirements. The City and Alameda County Fire Department has found the access to the site and internal circulation to be adequate for vehicular, pedestrian and emergency vehicle access. However, emergency vehicle access response time could be increased in the event the gates cause the queuing or back up of vehicles outside of them. A visitor mistakenly approaching the Bayfront Drive vehicle gate, for residents only, can cause a backup of vehicles until it completes a three point turn around or a U-turn and allows traffic to flow again. At the same, visitors in vehicles could be stacked at the Anchorage Drive gate, with the requirement to stop and use the telephone system.