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8.A. - Page 1 <br />REPORT <br />To the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From the City Manager <br />September 23, 2014 <br />SUBJECT <br />Cross -Appeals of the certification of Revised Final Environmental Impact Report <br />("RFEIR") and approval of master Planned Development Permit for the Laurel Way <br />Joint Venture Project <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />Deny both appeals and, by Resolution, certify the Revised Final EIR and approve the <br />master Planned Development Permit (Attachment 1) with the conditions as modified <br />and imposed by the Planning Commission, including a modification to Condition 19 to <br />reduce home sizes to those allowed under Alternative B of the RFEIR as modified by <br />this staff report. <br />BACKGROUND <br />This matter involves an appeal of the Planning Commission's March 26, 2013 decision <br />to certify a Revised Final Environmental Impact Report (RFEIR) and approve a master' <br />Planned Development Permit for the Laurel Way Planned Development, which <br />proposes to develop up to 16 single-family homes on 18 existing hillside lots, owned by <br />14 different parties. The Applicant is the Laurel Way Joint Venture (LWJV), which <br />represents all of the owners. Cross-appeals were filed by the Applicant and by Save <br />Laurel Way (SLW), a community group primarily representing neighbors of the project. <br />This project does not involve City approval of any subdivision or other creation of new <br />lots. The lots were lawfully created through a subdivision map filed in 1926— the same <br />map which created all of the lots (numbering in the several hundreds) surrounding the <br />project site, most of which have already been developed with single family homes. <br />Development of these Laurel Way lots with single family homes has long been <br />contemplated. The lots are legal nonconforming, and, under section 33.2 of the City's <br />Zoning Code, the owners are entitled to develop the lots so long as the development <br />complies with all other code requirements. Such development requires City approval of <br />one or more Planned Development Permits. <br />A prior version of the EIR for development of these lots was presented to the Council on <br />appeal at its meeting on August 22, 2011. At that time, the Council accepted the <br />recommendation to set aside the prior certification of that EIR to correct two specified <br />It should be noted the term "master" is a term of art, which simply refers to the first phase and <br />comprehensive overview of the project and is not a codified term. <br />Page 1 of 12 <br />