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7.2.B. - Page 11 <br /> RE PO RT <br /> To the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> From the Cit Mana er <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 master1 <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 />