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Planning
Commission Meeting Update
May
25, 2005
Wednesday
7:00 p.m.
CALL TO ORDER/PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL:
Commissioners Carlyn Christianson, Alice Loh, Andrea Miller, Orval
Osborne, Andrew Carter, Chairperson Michael Boswell and Vice-Chair Jim
Aiken.
All of the Commissioners were present.
ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA:
MINUTES:
The minutes of May 11, 2005, were accepted as written.
PUBLIC COMMENT:
There were no comments from the public.
PUBLIC HEARINGS:
1. 3190,
3196, 3220, 3232, 3240, and 3250 South Higuera Street.
PD 43-05: Amend use list to allow banks and broadcast studios, and
laboratories with approved Planning Commission use permit; O-PD zone;
Walter Brothers Construction, applicant.
(Buzz Kalkowski)
The Commission voted 7-0 to recommend to the City Council to modify
the existing Office Planned Development at the Walter Brothers Center
to allow banks, broadcast studios, and laboratories.
2. Open
Space.
GPC 77-05: Review of a proposed dedication to the City of a
conservation easement for a 62.5 acre portion of the 92 acre
Congregation Beth David property at the southeast corner of Los Osos
Valley Road and Foothill Blvd. and it’s conformity with the City’s
General Plan; City of San Luis Obispo, applicant.
(Neil Havlik)
The Commission voted 7-0 finding the proposed dedication of a
conservation easement to the City consistent with the City's General
Plan. Discussion focused on the types of uses of the property, such
as continued grazing, that would be consistent with open space and
agricultural preservation. The Commission also discussed the
potential for future development of a portion of the project site that
is not part of current development plan and that is outside of the
conservation easement.
3. 861,
953, 791 Orcutt Road, 3330, 3370, 3388, 3398, 3366, 3360 Broad.
ER 114-02: Review of the Draft EIR for the Four Creeks project, which
includes a Planned Development rezone and subdivision with 261 homes
and 12,000 sq. ft. of commercial floor area; M-PD and C-S-S zones;
City of San Luis Obispo, W.E.T. Inc., and PARC North Associates, LLC,
applicants. (Michael Codron)
The Commission heard a presentation of the Draft EIR for the Four
Creeks project. The public comment period on the EIR runs through
July 6, 2005. The Commission discussed each of the issue areas where
potentially significant impacts are identified in the environmental
document. These include traffic, biological resources, aesthetics,
noise, hazards, air quality and utilities. The project applicants
provided testimony and expressed concerns regarding the potential cost
and uncertainty for reimbursement of required off-site improvements.
The applicants also briefly discussed ways that noise and aesthetics
impacts would be addressed with plan revisions. Staff indicated that
the project would return to the Planning Commission in August or
September, provided major project issues could be resolved adequately
in time. No action was required by the Commission.
4. Citywide.
Review of the City’s proposed 2005-2007 Capital Improvement Program
for conformity with the City’s General Plan; City of San Luis Obispo,
applicant. (John Mandeville)
The Planning Commission voted unanimously to forward the CIP program
to the City Council with a determination that the CIP conforms to the
General Plan. Three projects were identified where project details
and information will be needed at the time they are developed to
ensure General Plan conformity. These projects include the Downtown
Urban Forest Management Plan, the Andrews Creek Bypass project and the
Palm-Nipomo Parking Structure.
COMMENT AND DISCUSSION:
5. Staff
A.
Agenda Forecast
Deputy Director Ronald Whisenand advised the Commission of upcoming
agendas for June including the proposed Advisory Body Training
scheduled for June 22nd and the rescheduled regular meeting on June
29th.
6. Commission
There was no Commission discussion.
The meeting ADJOURNED at
10:10 p.m.
to the regular meeting of the Planning Commission scheduled for
Wednesday June 8, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber of City
Hall, 990 Palm Street. |
