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�.A -� REP�RT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager March 14, 2005 Subject Adoption of a Resolution Confirming City Council Policy with respect to development on Laurel Way Recommendation That the City Council adopt the attached resolution confirming their policy with respect to the development of vacant sites on Laurel Way as follows: 1. Determine that the December 18, 2000 staff report and Exhibit A to Resolution 14111 (a map) accurately represent the Council's policy with respect to the location of the "EIR — No EIR Line;" 2. Adopt the attached Resolution which specifies Council's policy as it is presented in the December 18, 2000 staff report and Exhibit A with respect to development of vacant parcels on Laurel Way and the location of the "EIR — No EIR Line." Background Laurel Way is a private street located on the north side of a steeply sloping hill within the Emerald Hills neighborhood planning area. Utilities are not readily available to many parcels fronting on Laurel Way and emergency access is significantly substandard along this street, except at the eastern end where the roadway is improved to City standards. About half of the parcels fronting on Laurel Way remain vacant. In general, these lots have significant slopes, may contain unstable soils, and are blanketed with native vegetation and habitat. The Laurel Way roadway includes three surface conditions: improved to City standards at the east end; paved but significantly substandard and narrow in the center section; and unpaved and severely substandard for the entire western end. . Existing City Council policy, established in 1988 and modified in 2000, states that no further development should occur on parcels on the west end of the street until an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is prepared for all of the undeveloped portion of Laurel Way. It was determined that the cumulative impacts of development in this area would be very significant. The 1988 policy affected all of the vacant parcels with frontage on Laurel Way. On December 18, 2000, a line was established by Council which specified which parcels would require an EIR for development and which would not. This line will be referred to throughout this report as the "EIR — No EIR Line." Development of properties on the EIR side of the line will require a comprehensive street and utilities improvement plan for all of Laurel Way as well as geotechnical and biotic studies. A map of Laurel Way indicating the remaining vacant properties and the location of the EIR — No EIR Line is provided following for reference. In 2000, City Council established the EIR — No EIR Line at the "last house" on the northern side of the street. Thus, since the property at 3726 Laurel Way is the furthest west property on the north side of the street that has been developed, parcels furtherwest of 3726 are on