AgdaPkt 2015-09-21 Joint Special SAF PAF

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As part of the Vesting Tentative Map application, the Applicant is requesting modifications to the required street width and configuration. The analysis and findings to support this request are discussed in detail in the attached Planning Commission staff report. All other aspects of the proposed Vesting Tentative Map comply with the City’s Subdivision Ordinance. ALTERNATIVES The City Council may choose to: a. Approve an eight-lot project that further minimizes or fully eliminates the requested PD setback modifications; b. Approve the nine-lot subdivision design (April 2015) with proposed structures and/or impervious surfaces (in addition to fencing) within the 25’ creek protection setback area, with appropriate Use Permit findings FISCAL IMPACT Review of the proposed project is subject to the City’s Cost Recovery System, therefore, direct costs during the entitlement process associated with staff and consultant time are covered by an applicant deposit. Should the project be approved, the Applicant will be required to pay all associated development impact fees, as applicable and as established by ordinance. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW The City Council certified the First Amendment to the Draft Focused Finger Avenue Nine-Lot Planned Development Project EIR (Final EIR) on September 10, 2012. The certified EIR successfully withstood legal challenge and remains in effect. Addendum No. 1 was prepared in March 2015 to identify the change in location for the top of bank of Cordilleras Creek along the project site. The change in the top of bank location as it is depicted on paper does not change the actual top of bank location as it physically exists in the field. Addendum No. 2 was prepared in August 2015 to identify the change in the project design to an eight-lot residential subdivision with all impervious structures and ground cover located outside of the 25’ creek protection setback (with the exception of lot line fencing), reduced from the original nine-lot EIR project description. Neither the change in the top of bank location nor the eight-lot Project design constitute new information, any substantial increase in, or create any new environmental impacts not identified within the certified EIR. Further, the City has determined that there are no substantial changes proposed in the Project, or with respect to the circumstances under which the Project will be undertaken, and there is no other relevant new information of substantial importance which would require any major revisions in the certified EIR. The amended eight-lot Project, along with the proposed conditions of approval, is consistent with the certified EIR. 8.B. - Page 12