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990 Palm Street/Post Office Box 8100 • San Luis Obispo, CA 93403-8100
January 19, 1989
TO: City Council
VIA: John Dunn, City Administrative Officer
FROM: Michael Multari, Community Development Director WA
SUBJECT: Council briefing on the "Obispo Del Sur" General Plan Amendment and
Annexation.
Backeround
French Brothers Investments has submitted an application to the Community Development
Department requesting that the city:
1. Amend its Land Use Element and extend the urban reserve line to include a 350-acre
site on Broad Street, east of the Buckley Road intersection.
2. Prezone the site for residential and service commercial/light industrial use;
3. Annex the site.
The applicant has simultaneously submitted a similar request to the County Planning
Department to amend the San Luis Obispo Area Plan and to allow the project in the
county. The applicant states that a specific plan for the property is being prepared.
Data Summary
Applicants French Brothers Investments
Representative: RRM Design
Location: Broad Street, east of south Aero Loop Drive and Buckley Road intersections.
Site Area: 350 acres
Current Land Use: agricultural grazing
City LUE Designation: most territory is beyond the urban reserve and designated
"Conservation/Open Space;" northwestern corner of the site is within the urban
reserve and designated "Rural Industrial."
County LUE Designation: "Agriculture"
Airport Area Concept Plan: part of the site within the planning area is designated
"Agriculture;" eastern portion of site beyond the planning area boundary.
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Proposed Land Uses
The attached maps show the location of the property and the proposed land use concepts.
A more detailed report is available in the City Council's office. Major features of the
proposal include:
1. 275 single family homes on 6,000 square foot lots in the northeast quadrant of the
property. This development would be connected to residential subdivisions inside the
city in the Edna Area.
2. Six "Business Park" clusters separated by open space corridors. Based on the
anticipated lot coverage (15 to 25%), the clusters could accommodate between 1.0 and
1.8 million square feet of service commercial/light industrial development.
3. Open space corridors separating each business park.
4. Common amenity areas with child care and recreation opportunities for workers in
the business parks.
Staffs Recommended Processine Strateev
It is appropriate that the applicants identify their land use preferences for the site
since the city and county are updating their Land Use Elements. A specific plan is also
being prepared for the airport area. However, it is not timely for the city to process
specific general plan amendment and prezoning application for such a large area outside
the urban reserve and outside the Airport Area Specific Plan area.
Staff feels that a superior strategy is to consider the basic land use proposal (and
others like it) in the larger context of updating the city's general plan. In this
larger context, the community's needs for basic land use designations, concerns for
agricultural preservation, city expansion and phasing, rural cluster development,
circulation impacts, the jobs/housing balance, and the creation of a green belt can be
better addressed.
Also, the environmental analysis of changes to the general plan and their cumulative
impact on resources can best be addressed at the general plan level. More focused
environmental studies should be done at the specific planning stage after basic land use
policy decisions have been incorporated into the general plan.
Unless the City Council indicates otherwise, the Community Development Department will
postpone processing this general plan amendment and prezoning application separately.
Staff will consider this proposal as part of its work on updating the Land Use Element.
TS:ts
Attachments
Obispo del Sur Land Use Element Application available in Council Office for inspection.
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