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PUD-93-02-09M 2001 Ruby Hill Boulevard wine-producing center by encouraging appropriate tourist attractions and supporting uses such as the proposed event center and winery. The proposal includes one future home site for a Tuscan style single-family residence. Ruby Hill was allotted to a housing cap of 850 residential units. In the past, two residential lots were combined into one for the construction of one single-family home, bringing the total residential lots in Ruby Hill from the original 850 lots to 849. The proposed home site for asingle-family residential unit would bring the total number of unit back to the housing cap and is therefore in conformance the Ruby Hill PUD. South Livermore Valley Agricultural Land TrustlTri-Valley Conservancy The subject site is covered by an agricultural conservation easement granted to the Tri-Valley Conservancy (TVC), formerly South Livermore Valley Agricultural Land Trust (SLVALT). This proposal was reviewed and supported by the Board of Directors of TVC. The conservation easement benefiting the TVC limits the non-vineyard use to a total of 2.5-acres of building envelope area. The building envelope is required to be one continuous piece, i.e. the restaurant area and the future home site would need to be linked via a driveway. The building envelope area includes the restaurant location, parking lot and area surrounding the restaurant, the patio area to the west of the restaurant building, the building area for a future residence and the driveway access to the home. The TVC requested that the applicant amend the conservation easement to clearly describe both building envelope, and the building envelope should be physically demarcated from the vineyard areas. As conditioned, the applicant would amend the easement by preparing and recording a metes and bounds description of the building envelope, and would then monument the property corners. Zoninn The existing parcel is currently zoned PUD-A/OS/LDR (Planned Unit Development -Agricultural/Open Space/Low Density Residential) District. Permitted uses for this property, established by the Ruby Hill PUD development plan, included a temporary sales office, planted wine grapes, vineyard maintenance facilities, irrigation detention ponds, and other functions ancillary to wine production as determined by the Planning Director. Other proposals including a change in use for the existing sales office, a winery, a tasting complex, a residence, or an event center would require the submittal of an application for a PUD major modification. The proposed development is to convert the existing Ruby Hill sales office to a sit-down restaurant. Included in the proposal are reconfiguration of the existing parking lot, and establishing a new driveway off Vineyard Avenue, and a future home site. A PUD major modification is filed with the Planning Department. Project Description The applicant proposes to modify the approved Ruby Hill Development plan to allow a restaurant use and to allow a building envelope for a future residence. Specifically the proposal includes the following: ~ Change the existing use of the building from sales office to restaurant; ~ Relocate the existing two-story, approximately 4,200-square-foot building toward Vineyard Avenue and to the east side of the seasonal drainage channel; ~ Create basement area for use as a wine cellar; ~ Construct a new driveway off Vineyard Avenue and a parking lot with 91 parking spaces exclusively for the restaurant use; ~ Remodel the building interior and operate a restaurant that serves dinner to the public daily and holds private functions during non-dinner hours; ~ Allow consumption of alcoholic beverages at the restaurant after 10:00 p.m.; ~ Establish a building envelope at the sales office building location for the construction of a future residence; and,