03 - Laserfiche WebLink

ATTACHMENT 5 PUD-114, Guy Houston Application for Planned Unit Development (PUD) Development Plan to allow for the construction of three new single-family residences and three second units and rezoning from the A (Agriculture) District to the PUD-RDR/A-OS (Planned Unit Development – Rural Density Residential/Agriculture and Open Space) District for the property located at 11300 Dublin Canyon Road. Jennifer Hagen presented the staff report and described the scope, layout, and key elements of the proposal. Commissioner Balch: Just a quick clarification if I may, the FAR on the bottom of page 9, its 7,000 feet of developable area. Can you elaborate on the process to come up with that number? I typically see more of just an FAR percentage, right? 25% is what you discussed here? Hagen: Typically, in most areas of the City they are 25%, 30%, 40%, but due to the large size of the lots, all of these lots were minimum one acre. Even at 20% that would be a 10,000-square-foot home which we thought for this area of the City and in the rural character of the neighborhood still was probably a little bit overbuilt. Therefore, we decided to go with a flat square footage instead of a percentage in this case. Commissioner Balch: And do we have precedent for that in other PUD processes we've gone through? Hagen: Directly across the street, one of the parcels; Mrs. Young's property. They had three parcels. Two of them they went with the square footage. There were two smaller parcels but one of those was a larger parcel. In that case they did go with the flat square footage because it was larger and they felt it would be consistent with the other square footages to just have a flat square footage. So there is a precedent directly across the street and elsewhere in the City. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS OPENED. Guy Houston, Applicant described the scope, layout, and key elements of the application. Commissioner Balch: Are you comfortable with the well being abandoned as presented in the modified conditions? Houston: No, this is a surprise. These lawns are so big—in particular, Lot 3 where that well would be housed, it's about 1.5 acres. The vision for this is planting a lot of fruit trees so having that well makes all the sense in the world. We don't see the reason of why it should go away and it would certainly be a benefit to the property. I've checked with Zone 7, it could only be used for that site, for that property and it can't be exported anywhere else. They don't want you to get into the water business which makes sense. We would like to keep that well. The only other question I had was on the limitation with the FAR. The FAR is so low but are you talking about additions on to the house? Not if somebody wants to build a garage or an ancillary structure separate? EXCERPT: DRAFT PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, July 13, 2016 Page 1 of 8