COM 0952.001 2022-2022 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

CHEN: I'm an oncologist. DEFRANCO: Thank you. VITOUSEK: Okay. I have a question for the County. In the determination by the Planning Director that the half of the project that is shown as being outside. Was that accepted by County Council also? DARROW: That— HALL: Please use your microphone, sir. DARROW: Oh, I'm sorry. HALL: Thank you. DARROW: Oh, I'm sorry. Let me just introduce myself I'm Jeff Darrow, Deputy Planning Director, supporting Zendo Kern, our current Planning Director. Back in 2013 when this went before Council, or Committee, there was discussion. The Commission accepted it, the Director recommended it because it's halfway in the property, correct? So, you gotta kind of make a determination. General Plan Land Use Pattern Allocation Guide Map is broad-brush. It's not site-specific. Unfortunately,with the introduction of GIS, everything appears to be site-specific, but when it comes to the General Plan, it's general. And so, at the time, the applicant was proposing a residential development and was requesting from the Planning Director at that point, could this property be determined as urban expansion. And I think it was two different determinations agreed with that interpretation. When it came up to Planning Committee, there was discussion about the ability to make that interpretation, right? And that really wasn't clearly resolved because I think it's something that has to be clearly stated somewhere. And right now it's an assumption. The Planning Director was the one who helped create the plan. He's the one that provides recommendations to the commission, to the council, to the mayor on land use applications and planning matters. And so, at that point,they did accept it but what ended up happening was there was a lot more discussion regarding significant conditions that wanted to be placed on the property. So, the original application that came in, there was some issues that came up, they withdrew. They resubmitted, they made it all the way up as John had mentioned, all the way up to Committee, and at that point when it got to where these pretty extensive conditions were being, not placed but almost like trying to be placed on this,they ended up withdrawing at that point. So, now again, we're in this dilemma. We heard our first testifier saying, "Hey,this really should be an area of higher density," right? But they're limited by water. Right now we can't. Back then maybe they could've, but right now we only have 11 units of water. When you look at—the other dilemma,just really quick on this, is because of that split on that land use pattern allocation guide map you've got to try to come up with a, an appropriate split. And it's, in my opinion looking at this, the appropriate split would be the road. It wouldn't be the property below. It seems like those are connected. And as you look to the south, you also see the residential land 13 EXHIBIT F