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Memorandum
January 10, 2018
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Shawna Scott, Associate Planner, Community Development Department
VIA: Doug Davidson, Deputy Director, Community Development Department
SUBJECT: MOD-1220-2017 (3987 Orcutt Road)
Consideration of a Request to Amend Project Conditions and Mitigation
Measures associated with Final Tract Map #3063 – Phase 1 (Righetti Ranch)
As recommended by the City Attorney, the Draft Resolution for MOD-1220-2017 has been revised
to include additional Finding #6 pertaining to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Attachment: Draft Resolution
RESOLUTION NO. XXXX-18
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
SAN LUIS OBISPO RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF AMENDMENTS
TO MITIGATION MEASURES AND CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL FOR
AN APPROVED SUBDIVISION (MOD-1220-2017; TRACT #3063 A.K.A.
“RIGHETTI RANCH”; 3987 ORCUTT ROAD)
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of San Luis Obispo conducted a public
hearing on January 10, 2018, and recommended approval of amendments to various mitigation
measures and project conditions to facilitate phasing of certain required infrastructure with timing
of building permit issuance and occupancy permits; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission hearing was for the purpose of formulating and
forwarding recommendations to the City Council of the City of San Luis Obispo regarding the
mitigation measure and condition amendments; and
WHEREAS, notices of said public hearing were made at the time and in the manner
required by law; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has duly considered all evidence, including the
testimony of the applicant, interested parties, and the evaluation and recommendations by staff,
presented at said hearing.
BE IT RESOLVED, by the Planning Commission of the City of San Luis Obispo to
recommend approval of specific amendments to environmental mitigation measures and project
conditions of approval to the City Council based on the following Findings and Conditions:
SECTION 1. CEQA Findings, Mitigation Measures and Mitigation Monitoring
Program. Based upon all the evidence, the Planning Commission makes the following California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) findings in support of the Application to Amend Mitigation
Measures #MOD-1220-2017 for final map and subdivision #3063:
1. The proposed mitigation measure amendments are consistent with the requirements of
the Orcutt Area Specific Plan Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) certified and
adopted by the City Council on March 2, 2010, and the Initial Study-Mitigated Negative
Declaration adopted by the City Council on May 19, 2015 for the VTM#3063.
2. Proposed modifications to MMs T-1(a) and T-2(d) provide for the construction of a turn
pocket and roundabout for intersection widening and signalization, consistent with the
City’s Circulation Element principles, and implements these improvements prior to any
significant traffic generation accessing Orcutt Road from the Righetti Ranch project,
thereby matching trip generation to the completion of the intersection roundabout.
Resolution No. _____ (2018 Series) Page 2
3. Orcutt and Tank Farm Road frontage improvements and Hansen Lane realignment can be
timed to be completed in phases to meet the traffic generation demands of phased
occupancy of the Righetti Ranch project.
4. Traffic safety measures can be completed on Tank Farm Road as traffic generation demand
occurs at or before Phase 1 occupancy of residential units, and internal roadway
connections over and across jurisdictional areas would be completed prior to Phase 2
building permit issuance, to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works.
5. All potentially significant effects were analyzed adequately in the referenced FEIR and
IS-MND, and reduced to a level of insignificance, provided the amended mitigation
measures are incorporated into the development project and the mitigation monitoring
program as described on Attachment 2 to this resolution.
6. Consistent with Public Resources Code 15162(a) (CEQA), the proposed changes to
mitigation measures and conditions of approval as outlined herein do not trigger any of
the following threshold circumstances:
a)Substantial changes are not proposed requiring major revisions to the previously
certified FEIR and IS-MND, nor are any new or substantially increased significant
environmental effects to the Righetti Ranch project resulting from the proposed
modifications. The project remains a residential master planned community consistent
with the OASP and the 2015 VTM approvals, and no increases in lots, density, land
uses or other project entitlements are proposed with these amendments.
b)No substantial changes have occurred with respect to the manner in which the Righetti
Ranch project will be undertaken. The mitigation measure and condition
modifications maintain the previously approved mitigation measures, and provide for
additional clarity and detail in the timing of completion of those measures as detailed
herein.
c)No new information of substantial importance has become available since certification
of the noted FEIR and IS-MND that would represent a new or more significant
environmental impact not previously considered; all previously adopted mitigation
measures remain feasible and applicable to the project as approved; and no
considerably different impacts not otherwise analyzed in the FEIR and IS-MND result
from these mitigation measure and conditions of approval modifications.
SECTION 2. Condition of Approval Modifications.Based upon all the evidence and
public testimony received, the Planning Commission recommends the City Council adopt and
approve the proposed modifications to project conditions as described in Attachment 3 to this
resolution.
Resolution No. _____ (2018 Series) Page 3
Upon motion of _______________________, seconded by _______________________,
and on the following roll call vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
RECUSED:
The foregoing resolution was adopted this 10th day of January 2018.
____________________________________
Doug Davidson, Secretary
Planning Commission