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~.B -1 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager February 28, 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 ofthe "EIR - No EIR Line;" 2. Adopt the attached Resolution which clearly states the policy as it is presented in the December 18, 2000 staff report and Exhibit A in regards to determining 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 for 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, the.se 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 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 fronting the substandard portions of Laurel Way (the west end of the street) until an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is prepared. 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 requirements for properties on the EIR side of the line also include a comprehensive street and utilities improvement plan as well as technical studies. A map of laurel Way indicating the remaining vacant properties; the roadway surface conditions; and the location of the EIR - No EIR Line is provided below for reference. In 2000, City Council established the EIR - No EIR Line at the transition point from the City standard paved section to the substandard paved section. Recently, the property owner of 3730 laurel Way (a vacant lot), has made staff aware of a need for clarification between the Staff Report from December 18, 2000 and the associated Resolution. Both documents describe the location of the EIR - No EIR line using different references. Staff has met with the property owner and there was a