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BACKGROUND Proposal The applicants Dr. William and Lydia Yee request a PUD development plan modification for a four -lot development on a 29.8 -acre site located on the west side of Foothill Road. The homes will be located in designated building envelope areas with the remaining lot area preserved as permanent open space in private ownership. Design guidelines will control the building and landscape designs. Separate design review approvals will be required for the individual lots. Previous Planning Commission Hearing, Six -Lot Proposal On August 13, 2008, the Planning Commission reviewed the applicants' proposal for a six -lot development plan and recommended its approval. The Commission conditioned the proposal to install a six -foot wide bicycle lane in the Foothill Road right -of -way along the site's entire Foothill Road frontage, a distance of approximately 1,200 feet from the northernmost project boundary to the realigned entrance; to allow a vineyard on the lot adjoining Foothill Road with a conditional use permit; to allow non habitable accessory structures such as barns and sheds in the open space areas of the six lots with a conditional use permit; to require a minimum LEED rating of 100 points for the homes; and to conform the building height on these lots to the West Foothill Road Corridor Overlay District 30 feet measured from the buildings' lowest to highest point. After the Planning Commission hearing, staff received comments from responsible agencies and concerned groups regarding the environmental review. Their issues included the accuracy of the analyses prepared by the applicant's consultants; the loss of oak woodland on the site and along Foothill Road in the most visible area of the site to residents living nearby and traveling on Foothill Road as well as the biological impacts of such loss; and the impacts resulting from a channel adjoining Foothill Road resulting from the street widening required to construct a continuous bicycle lane on the entire project Foothill Road frontage. This is an open channel in a relatively natural state under the jurisdictions of the Army Corps of Engineers, the California Department of Fish and Game, and the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and, potentially, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Filling the channel required new channel and the construction of the new channel required significant grading resulting in the loss of the entire oak woodland area in this stretch of Foothill Road. Staff believed that these comments should be addressed before the City Council review. Four -Lot Proposal The revised four -lot development plan reduced the project from six lots to four lots; reduced the area of the building envelopes; reduced the number of impacted trees from 248 trees to 67 trees; and deleted the road widening for the bicycle lane into the creek channel that, in turn, reduced grading and tree removal. The applicant's consultants replied to the agency and public comments and the consultants' reports were peer reviewed and updated with new information. The revised development plan, IS /MND, and supporting materials was sent to the State Clearinghouse and directly to all concerned parties. The State Clearinghouse review was completed on April 21, 2010. Page 1 of 16