DATE: May 24, 2016
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Director of Development Services
SUBJECT
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Recommended approval of a proposed project at 81 Fagundes Court for twenty-eight detached single-family homes and fourteen attached townhomes on a 3.2-acre site; KB Home Bay Area (Applicant)/ Steven Amaral (Owner)
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That the City Council:
1. Adopts the attached resolution (Attachment I), adopting Initial Study, Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND), and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) and Vesting Tentative Tract Map 8266, subject to the Conditions of Approval attached to the resolution; and
2. Introduces the attached ordinance (Attachment II), approving the Zone Change application to build twenty-eight detached single-family homes and fourteen attached townhomes.
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SUMMARY
Staff is supportive of the revised project because it provides much needed ownership housing at a density and design that is compatible with surrounding developments and provides improved pedestrian access and increased number of parking spaces in response to Council's direction at the December 15, 2015 public hearing. The Planning Commission also recommends approval of the revised project.
BACKGROUND
Reviews of Previously Proposed Project - This project previously entailed forty-two detached single-family homes and was reviewed by the Planning Commission on November 19, 2015, and unanimously recommended to City Council for approval (meeting minutes). During the December 15, 2015 City Council meeting, the Council referred the project back to the Planning Commission for further review and direction "to eliminate the private gated community nature of the project, create a public park, and consider mitigation measures for the current parking situation". Revisions to the project entail an additional ten on-site parking spaces and eleven additional spaces across from the project s...
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