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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/23/1993, 1 - MARGARITA AREA STUDY SESSION lllunlYlll�lllllll�l II MEETING GATE II G I►i �l��� citJ of san -Lai s oBi spo -2 r-;- 9 3 COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT ITEM NUMBER: FROM: Arnold B. Jonas, Community Development Director BY: Glen Matteson, Associate Planner SUBJECT: Margarita area study session CAO RECOMMENDATION: 1. Confirm the City's commitment to complete the specific plan for the area, annex it, and provide services in a timely way, all as proposed by the general plan. 2 . Confirm the general plan requirement that the City have sufficient water supply for existing and potential development within the City, plus the annexed area, before building in any part of the specific plan area (except the minor piece on Rockview Place) . 3 . Suggest the owners submit a draft or outline development agreement for further discussion and consideration, as preparation of the specific plan proceeds. BACKGROUND Requested Direction RRM has asked for Council direction on three points: schedule for service availability; an early initial development phase; a development agreement. The property owners desire some assurance that development can proceed in a reasonable time, before committing funds to complete the EIR and the specific plan. Data Summary Owners: J. E. King, et. al. ; Sierra Gardens of S.L.O. Limited; L.J. Martinelli, trustee, et. al. , D. Garcia, et. al. , I . Brughelli, trustee, et. al. Representatives: RRM Design Group (Eric Justesen) ; John Wallace & Associates Land Use Element map: adopted: conservation/open space; interim conservation/open space; rural industrial; medium-density residential proposed: conservation/open space; interim open space; park; recreation; business park; medium-density residential Environmental status: focused EIR to be prepared Action deadline: none provided by state law �ii�►�►I►IuI�lI�I��I� I���I city of san Lads OBIspo Eftl is COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT Situation The adopted general plan Land Use Element identifies several major potential expansion areas which are reserved primarily for residential development, including the Margarita area. The pending Land Use Element update would enlarge the Margarita planning area (attached map) and provide more specific guidance on the type of eventual development. The environmental impact report (EIR) on the update has been published, and adoption is anticipated by June. According to the Land Use Element, development within a major expansion area cannot occur until the City has adopted a specific plan for the area. A specific plan shows the design and timing of land uses, roads, and public facilities in more detail than the general plan, but not so precisely as subdivision maps or construction plans. Also, the Land Use Element says the City must have sufficient water supply to serve the expansion-area development, plus existing and potential development elsewhere in the City. This requirement cannot be fulfilled until one or more of the following projects are completed: Salinas expansion; Nacimiento connection; water reclamation. An optimistic time frame for completing these water projects is mid-1995 to the end of the year 2000. In fall 1988, RRM Design Group, representing some of the property owners in the Margarita planning area, submitted a draft specific plan. In May 1990, at RRM's request, the City Council approved a "guidance package" which outlined responsibilities for RRM and City staff in preparing a specific plan for the whole area, responding to concerns raised by the 1988 draft. In March 1992 , Council endorsed a revised concept plan and commented on some alternative features, which were to serve as the project description for a focused EIR on the specific plan. Council's action included consideration of issues raised at a Planning Commission hearing and neighborhood workshops. Since the last Council consideration in March 1992, RRM and City staff planners have refined the concept plan and alternatives and prepared a draft work scope for the EIR. The specific plan work scope assumed that many of the citywide impacts would be addressed by the general plan EIR. (The general plan EIR anticipates the maximum probable extent and intensity of development within the Margarita area. ) Work has fallen behind the schedule outlined in the guidance package, partly because RRM has had difficulty making financial arrangements with the property owners. The concept plan shows about 213 acres of parks and open space (about half of the planning area) , a business park, an elementary school, neighborhood convenience centers, and about 1, 100 dwellings in a range of densities. The main circulation feature, i-a MY Of sal _ass OBISPO Maini COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT and the key to alternative neighborhood layouts, is an extension of Prado Road to connect with Broad Street at Industrial Way or at Tank Farm Road. The 1988 "airport area conceptual land use plan" included the Margarita area. This map was seen as a step in preparing a specific plan for the airport area. Now, the County intends to include development standards for the airport area in its update of the San Luis Obispo area plan. A specific plan for the Margarita area can proceed ahead of further work on a specific plan for the whole airport area. Nearly all the expense of preparing the specific plan and EIR is borne by the property owners. In the guidance package, the Council authorized up to 900 hours of City staff time for this project. So far, staff has spent about 150 hours. 1. Amount and timing of water The owners want an assurance that the City will obtain sufficient supplemental water to enable implementation of the specific plan, considering the recent rejection of state water by city voters. While sufficient water cannot be guaranteed, due to factors beyond the City's control, Council can confirm adopted policies, and programs underway, that would enable development to start later this decade. The need for additional sewage treatment capacity cannot be overlooked. The City's safe annual yield is 7 , 735 acre-feet (AF) , while its normal annual usage is about 8 , 200 AF. The general plan EIR concludes that a total of about 9, 900 AF to 11, 000 AF will be needed for full development within the urban reserve line, depending on the effectiveness of conservation measures. This range of requirements means the City will need to increase safe yield by 2 , 200 to 3 , 300 AF. In addition, about 800 AF will be needed to compensate for reduced yield of existing reservoirs due to siltation. Adding a contingency for continuing to supply Cuesta College brings the total requirement for additional water supply, in round numbers, to 3 , 200 to 4 , 300 AF. The City will aim for an overall increase of 6, 300 AF, providing a 2 , 000-AF reliability reserve beyond the higher end of the range. The reliability reserve is intended to cover reduced or lost yield, not to support additional development. Full development within the 1992 city limits, plus compensation for siltation, would require 2 , 100 to 3 , 100 AF more than current safe annual yield, depending on the effectiveness of conservation measures. All expansion development would need an additional approximately 1, 000 AF. The Margarita area itself is projected to need as much as 589 AF of potable City water, without use of gray water or reclaimed water, or as little as 271 AF of potable ���� ► ►�I�IIIIIUIp�Nu►gIUIU city of San �..41s OBISpo i COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT water, with extensive use of reclaimed water (attached table) . The City's proposed Salinas Reservoir expansion would increase safe annual yield by about 1, 650 AF, with completion expected between mid-1995 and mid-1997 . A preliminary design has been completed and an EIR is being written, but the project has not received necessary approvals. Also, transfer of reservoir ownership is required. The City has tentatively requested 6, 235 AF from the County's Nacimiento project, with completion expected between mid-1997 and the end of 2000, though a contractual amount has not been decided. Project design, environmental review, and approvals are yet to be completed. Through the City's reclaimed water program, up to 1, 600 AF of reclaimed water would be available as early as Spring 1995. (Of this amount 500 AF to 600 AF would offset existing use of City water for landscape irrigation. ) A preliminary design has been completed, and an EIR is about to be published, but project approvals have not been obtained. The amounts and target dates identified above for Salinas, Nacimiento, and reclaimed water all assume that no significant obstacles arise to delay or prevent the projects. The City does not have an adopted procedure for "reserving water" from certain sources for certain projects or areas. However, the Land Use Element (update hearing draft) says: "Though the periods of development of the major residential expansion areas may overlap, the City prefers to complete one neighborhood before beginning another. The sequence of development of the areas will be decided based on the affordability of dwellings, and other public benefits, primarily open space. The area committing to development of the largest number of dwellings affordable to low-income or moderate-income residents would be developed first, with open space dedication or other public benefits used to decide the order if two or three areas offer substantially the same housing affordability. "The anticipated intervals for the major expansion areas' development are: first area, 1993 - 2000; second area, 2001 - 2007; third area, 2008 - 2017 . " Of the three named major expansion areas, the Margarita area is the farthest along in specific planning. The Irish Hills area and the Orcutt area have not begun. The adopted Land Use Element shows the Dalidio area as a major expansion area, but the update says that each of the three ownerships within that area may proceed with a separate development plan, with the ownerships' I! T ����►�►�N��IfIIIp�I► ��llll city of Sark _JIS OBISPO snags COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT common boundaries in a permanent open space designation. The airport area --outside the Margarita portion-- does not fit in the approach to setting priorities cited above, and staff intends that this situation be clarified before the update is adopted. In any case, the City intends to have sufficient water for development of all the expansion areas starting in the late 1990's, if proposed projects remain on schedule. Assuming availability of sufficient water in 1997, the following is a possible schedule for development of the Margarita area. Complete refined concept plan - Spring 1993 Complete EIR workscope, contract - Spring 1993 Complete draft EIR - Summer 1993 Certify EIR, adopt specific plan - Winter 1994 Annex planning area - Summer 1994 Process tract maps - Winter 1995 Begin initial tract improvements - Spring 1995* Apply for first phase building permits - Winter 1997 Issue first phase building permits - Spring 1997 occupancy of initial phase - Fall 1997 Residential construction at about 100 dwellings/year until . . . 2007 . (The growth management policies could accommodate "bunching" about 300 dwellings in the initial year, if needed to fund the significant start-up costs of public improvements. ) *Tract improvements should begin only after the City has obtained all required approvals for the water project or projects needed to meet the general plan criteria. Sewage treatment capacity may also be a constraint. If flows remain lower than pre-drought levels due to permanent conservation measures, and the Margarita area is the first to annex, treatment capacity probably will be sufficient. If flows return to pre-drought levels, or other areas are annexed first, additional treatment capacity will be needed. The companion agenda report on annexation of the airport area provides additional information on sewage capacity. 2 . Initial phase before Nacimiento water RRM has asked about an early first phase minor annexation if the City commits to Nacimiento water. Development should wait until adequate water is actually available, as called for by the 111ib11IIIIIIfXN1��li city Of San _ JS OBISPO = COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT general plan, except for a two-acre piece which clearly could qualify to earn retrofit credits as a minor annexation. The owners are hoping that part of the planning area could be developed before Nacimiento water is actually available, if completion of the Nacimiento project was imminent, and if the City's water supplies were not strained by drought or other causes at the time. While this idea has some merit, it is clearly not consistent with the Land Use Element or the Water & Wastewater Management Element. One of the last amendments to the water element clarified that, except for projects allowed by retrofitting, the water has to be available, not anticipated. Much of the community's difficulty during the recent drought stemmed from continuing development based on anticipated rather than available water. Under current polices and rules, a part of a major expansion area cannot be built with water credits earned through retrofitting, unlike minor annexations (such as Stoneridge II) or areas that have been in the city (such as Edna-Islay) . If the Council wants to change this policy, staff should be given direction now so it can be presented along with the updates of the Land Use Element and the water element. It is possible that Salinas expansion plus reclaimed water would allow development of the Margarita area to start before availability of Nacimiento water, though this does not appear likely or prudent. This approach would work only if Council determined that obtaining the added supply to offset siltation could be deferred past the start of Margarita area development. Salinas addition: 1, 650 AF Reclaimed water 500 AF (offset existing irrigation) 2 , 150 AF Additional water for buildout of 1992 city limits, with effective conservation (10%) : 1, 300 AF Additional water for buildout of Margarita area, with reclaimed water usage: 271 AF 1, 571 AF Additional yield to compensate for siltation: 800 AF 2 , 371 AF The supply increment of 2, 150 AF would be greater than the demand increment of 1, 571 AF. However, with siltation loss, the supply increment of 2 , 150 AF would be less than the requirement of 2 , 371 AF. There is one unique part of the Margarita area that could develop sooner: about two acres at the southwest corner of the Broad- . �` iIINNlbill(VI(III���(�NNlil�l`� City of Sark .JI S OBISPO j COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT Rockview intersection. This area is shown on the adopted and draft Land Use Element maps as "medium-density residential, " not the "interim open space" designation used for major residential expansion areas. Through the guidance package and the Land Use Element update, this site was included in the Margarita planning area with the addition of the Garcia ranch property. It is separated from other potential development in the planning area by over one-quarter mile of open space, and could meet the criteria for a minor annexation. In fact, City staff and RRM have prepared an information packet concerning this site for the owners and the City Housing Authority, outlining development potential and an annexation schedule. When the City becomes entitled to Community Development Block Grant funds, this would be a likely site to acquire for assisted housing. Private development here could proceed with water credit earned through retrofitting. Public development would be exempt from needing an allocation, under a previous determination by the Council. 3. Development agreement The owners are interested in an agreement with the City that would make the development schedule more definite. In order to evaluate a potential agreement, the City would need at least an outline of its basic terms. A development agreement is a specific type of contract between a local government and a private party, enabled by California law. It gives developers more certainty in planning investments by locking in development standards and approval procedures, or certain exceptions, for a specified time following original project approval. In exchange, the local government can count on such benefits as desired development, land dedications, payment of fees, or construction of public facilities by the developer sooner than they might otherwise occur. Development agreements typically are used with large, complex, phased projects, often involving specific plans and annexations. All the usual procedures for hearings and environmental review must be followed, and the decision to approve a development agreement is subject to referendum. The City has adopted rules for the use of development agreements (Municipal Code Chapter 17 .94) , but has not entered into one. City policy and the realities of water-project development do not support an agreement requiring the City to obtain and provide supplemental water at a certain time following the owners' funding completion of the EIR or the specific plan, or requiring the City to allow development regardless of water availability. l - 7 ������►►►IVNIIIIgI�i- q�8�1� city of San _-JS osispo IwlliiiCOUNCIL AGENDA REPORT ALTERNATIVES The Council may give direction different from that recommended by staff. Any change to an adopted policy or regulation would require proper environmental review, public notice, and hearing. The Council may continue action. RECOMMENDATION 1. Confirm the City's commitment to complete the specific plan for the area, annex it, and provide services in a timely way, all as proposed by the general plan. 2 . Confirm the general plan requirement that the City have sufficient water supply for existing and potential development within the City, plus the annexed area, before building in any part of the specific plan area (except the minor piece on Rockview Place) . 3 . Suggest the owners submit a draft or outline development agreement for further discussion and consideration, as preparation of the specific plan proceeds. ATTACHED Vicinity map Margarita Area Water Requirements table GMAMARG.CAR /-8 . . IN . \ \n \\ \\\\\ \ �\ / \\ NNIS. \ ' \ .\\\ \\\\\ \ \ \ l\ \ \ IN \ \ . \\ /�. \\\ \ \ \\\ /// \\ \` \\\\\\ \\\ Q \` \\\\ \\ IN IN I \ \• // IN, \\\ \ /// ~ < \\ \\ ..XN��...�.. \ /// ♦ \\ \ \\\\\\\\\\\\ /// \\ \o IN, IIIIINNN\\\ \ IN IN IN. \ \\\\ \ / / \\\\ .. /////// • \\\ \\ / // r 1L . 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