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Home My WebLink About2016-12-07; Planning Commission; AgendasThe City of CARLSBAD Planning Division PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA www.carlsbadca.gov Council Chamber Wednesday, December 7, 2016 6:00 p.m. 1200 Carlsbad Village Drive NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC: 1. It is the Planning Commission’s Policy to adjourn the meeting no later than 10:00 p.m. 2. Meetings are divided into categories shown below. 3. When you are called to speak, please come forward and state your name and address. 4. Persons with a disability may request an agenda packet in appropriate alternative formats as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 by contacting the City Manager’s office at 760-434-2821 (voice), 711 (free relay service for TTY users), 760-720-9461 (fax) or manager@carlsbadca.gov by noon on the Friday preceding the meeting. All persons requiring reasonable accommodations or auxiliary aids in order to effectively participate in the meeting may contact the City Manager’s office by noon on the Friday preceding the meeting to make such arrangements. 5. PLEASE NOTE: Any agenda related writings or documents provided to the majority of the Planning Commission after distribution of the Agenda packet will be available for public inspection at the Planning Division located at 1635 Faraday Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92008. In addition, a binder containing all agenda related writings and documents will be held by the Minutes Clerk at each Planning Commission meeting and available for public review. 6. VISUAL MATERIALS FOR PLANNING COMMISSION: Visual materials should be submitted to the Planning Division at 1635 Faraday Avenue no later than noon on the day of a Regular Planning Commission Meeting. Digital materials will be placed on a computer in Council Chambers for public presentations. Please label all materials with the agenda item number you are representing. Items submitted for viewing, including presentations/digital materials, will be included in the time limit maximum for speakers. All materials exhibited to the Planning Commission during the meeting (slides, maps, photos, etc.) are part of the public record and must be kept by the Planning Division for at least 60 days after final action on the matter. Your materials will be returned upon written request. Video clips cannot be accommodated. 7. Meeting Decorum: Carlsbad Municipal Code sections 1.20.320 and 1.20.330 require members of the public to observe order at this meeting and to conduct themselves in a courteous manner. California Penal Code section 403 makes it a misdemeanor for any person to willfully disturb or break up any assembly or meeting with lawful authority. PUBLIC COMMENT: If you desire to speak about an item not listed on the agenda, a “Time Reservation Request” form should be filed with the Minutes Clerk. A total of 15 minutes is provided for the Public Comment portion of the Agenda. Speakers are limited to three (3) minutes each. In conformance with the Brown Act, no action can occur on items presented during Public Comment. PUBLIC HEARINGS: Please file a written request to speak on items listed on this agenda as Public Hearings. ALL OTHER CATEGORIES: For all other agenda items a “Request to Speak” form must be filed with the Minutes Clerk before the item is announced. There is a five (5) minute time limit for individual speakers. PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA December 7, 2016 Page 2 CALL TO ORDER 6:00 p.m. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL Commissioners L’Heureux and Montgomery absent APPROVAL OF MINUTES November 16, 2016 Approved 5-0-2 PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING 1. CDP 15-47 – HIGHLAND JAMES SUBDIVISION LOT 1 – Request for approval of a Coastal Development Permit to allow for the construction of a 4,040 square foot single-family residence with an attached three-car garage within the Mello II Segment of the city’s Local Coastal Program generally located on the west side of James Drive, approximately 530 feet south of Tamarack Avenue (Lot 1 of CT 08-06) within Local Facilities Management Zone 1. The project site is not within the appealable area of the California Coastal Commission. The City Planner has determined that the project belongs to a class of projects that the State Secretary for Resources has found do not have a significant impact on the environment, and it is therefore categorically exempt from the requirement for the preparation of environmental documents pursuant to Section 15303(a), construction of a single family residence, of the state CEQA Guidelines. RESOLUTION NO. 7214 STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Approval PLANNER: Teri Delcamp ENGINEER: Kyrenne Chua PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: Approved as Amended 5-0 2. CDP 15-48 – HIGHLAND JAMES SUBDIVISION LOT 2 – Request for approval of a Coastal Development Permit to allow for the construction of a 3,549 square foot single-family residence with attached two-car and one-car garages within the Mello II Segment of the city’s Local Coastal Program generally located on the west side of James Drive, approximately 600 feet south of Tamarack Avenue (Lot 2 of CT 08-06) within Local Facilities Management Zone 1. The project site is not within the appealable area of the California Coastal Commission. The City Planner has determined that the project belongs to a class of projects that the State Secretary for Resources has found do not have a significant impact on the environment, and it is therefore categorically exempt from the requirement for the preparation of environmental documents pursuant to Section 15303(a), construction of a single family residence, of the state CEQA Guidelines. RESOLUTION NO. 7215 STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Approval PLANNER: Teri Delcamp ENGINEER: Kyrenne Chua PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: Approved as Amended 5-0 PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA December 7, 2016 Page 3 3. CDP 15-49 – HIGHLAND JAMES SUBDIVISION LOT 3 – Request for approval of a Coastal Development Permit to allow for the construction of a 4,040 square foot single-family residence with an attached three-car garage within the Mello II Segment of the city’s Local Coastal Program generally located on the west side of James Drive, approximately 650 feet south of Tamarack Avenue (Lot 3 of CT 08-06) within Local Facilities Management Zone 1. The project site is not within the appealable area of the California Coastal Commission. The City Planner has determined that the project belongs to a class of projects that the State Secretary for Resources has found do not have a significant impact on the environment, and it is therefore categorically exempt from the requirement for the preparation of environmental documents pursuant to Section 15303(a), construction of a single family residence, of the state CEQA Guidelines. RESOLUTION NO. 7216 STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Approval PLANNER: Teri Delcamp ENGINEER: Kyrenne Chua PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: Approved as Amended 5-0 4. MP 178(J)/CUP 06-11(C) – PACIFIC RIDGE SCHOOL – Request for an amendment to the Bressi Ranch Master Plan to modify building height in Planning Area 13 and to allow a digital marquee sign on the Pacific Ridge campus with limitations and an amendment to the Pacific Ridge School campus master plan Conditional Use Permit CUP 06-11(B) that includes replacing a future 23,083 square foot theater building with a 14,120 square foot library innovation building, replacing an existing 480 SF modular administration building with a 14,736 square foot theater building, adding an underground parking garage with 164 spaces, relocating the sports field on top of the underground parking garage, and adding 27 new surface parking spaces, all located within Planning Area 13 of the Bressi Ranch Master Plan (BRMP) and generally located north of Greenhaven Drive, south of Bressi Ranch Way, east of Open Space Area 3 and west of El Fuerte Street in Local Facilities Management Zone 17. The City Planner determined that the proposed amendments are within the scope of the previously adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Pacific Ridge School Conditional Use Permit Amendment CUP 06-11(B). RESOLUTION NO. 7219 STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Approval PLANNER: Christer Westman ENGINEER: Tecla Levy PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: Approved as Amended 4-0-3 (Commissioner Segall abstained) 5. EIR 15-01/GPA 14-04/MP 178(I)/LFMP 87-17(A)/CT 14-09/PUD 14-10/SDP 14-13/SDP 16-06/CUP 14- 09/CUP 16-01 – UPTOWN BRESSI – Request for the certification of an Environmental Impact Report, including the approval of Candidate Findings of Fact and a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program and a recommendation of approval of a General Plan Amendment from Planned Industrial to Local Shopping Center and R-23 Residential, Local Facilities Management Plan Amendment, Master Plan Amendment, Vesting Tentative Tract Map, Planned Development Permit, two Site Development Plans and two Conditional Use Permits for the development of a 17.71 acre site within the Bressi Ranch Master Plan with a 91,164 square foot shopping center, and a 125 unit multi-family condominium project, all located at the southwest corner of Palomar Airport Road and El Fuerte Street, north of Gateway Road, and east of Colt Place and located within the southeast quadrant of the City within Local Facilities Management Zone 17. RESOLUTION NO. 7174, 7175, 7176 STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Recommend Approval PLANNER: Van Lynch ENGINEER: David Rick PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: Recommended Approval 5-0 PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA December 7, 2016 Page 4 6. ELECTION OF OFFICERS – By a 5-0 vote, the Commission elected Commissioner Segall to serve as Chairperson, and by a 5-0 vote, the Commission elected Commissioner Montgomery to serve as Vice Chairperson for 2017. 7. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANT (CDBG) CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE – The Planning Commission voted 5-0 to elect Chairperson Anderson to be appointed by the Mayor to serve on the Committee for a period of two years to help form financial recommendations regarding grant funding. Planning Commission Member Comments City Planner Comments City Attorney Comments TIME: 11:00 p.m. PLANNING COMMISSION PROCEDURE For those in the audience who are not familiar with the operation of a Planning Commission, the following is a summary of the procedure: For each item on the agenda, the planning staff will present a report to the Planning Commission. On items for public hearing, the audience will be asked for comment. Those wishing to speak are asked to come forward, speak into the microphone, and give their name and address for the taped record. A time limit of five minutes is allotted to each speaker. After testimony is completed, the applicant is allowed a rebuttal. The Planning Commission is anxious to hear all persons wishing to give testimony. However, it is requested that each new speaker add new information, and not repeat points which previous speakers have made. Persons not desiring to speak, but wishing to be recorded as proponents or protesters of record, may do so by submitting their name and address to the minutes clerk. Certain Planning Commission decisions are final, but may be appealed to the City Council. An appeal may be filed with the City Clerk at City Hall within 10 calendar days of the decision. The cost of filing an appeal is $850 for all matters. If anyone wishes to question a Planning Commission decision, they may contact the Planning Division at 1635 Faraday Avenue, between the hours of 7:30 and 5:30, Monday through Thursday, and 8:00 to 5:00 on Friday.