Site Obscuring Requirements. The Black Diamond Area Open Space Agreement dated June 6, 2005 (the “Open Space Agreement”) between Plum Creek Land Company (“Plum Creek”), the City of Black Diamond (the “City”), King County, and Cascade Land Conservancy, and the Conservation Easement Deed granted to the City by Plum Creek dated March 21, 2006 (“Easement”) establish site obscuring requirements for portions of Development Parcels L29 and L30 of the Xxxxxx Hills MPD. The Master Developer shall be deemed to have satisfied the site obscuring requirements of the Open Space Agreement and/or the Easement so long as it provides a Site Obscuring Vegetative Buffer (as defined below) between the burdened property and State Highway 169. Signage provided in conformance with the City’s Gateway Overlay District (BDMC Ch. 18.76, Exhibit “E”) is exempt from these site obscuring requirements. A Site Obscuring Vegetative Buffer shall be defined as follows: Existing vegetation augmented with a mix of planted evergreen and deciduous trees, shrubs, and groundcovers, in combination with natural or man‐made topography that screens, conceals, hides, or otherwise makes indistinct, a structure, group of structures or place from all locations on State Highway 169 within three (3) years of development. In order to meet the above definition, the Site Obscuring Vegetative Buffer shall conform to the following performance criteria:
