HomeMy WebLinkAboutCUP 55; San Diego Gas and Electric; Conditional Use Permit (CUP)MEMORANDUM/REPORT
February 3, 1971
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: City Manager
SUBJECT: STAFF REPORT re Application for Conditional Use
Permit to allow Construction of two(2) Fuel Oil
Storage Tanks; to be considered by Planning
Commission , February 9 , 1971
APPLICANT: SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY
REPORT SUBMITTED BY: Fire, Building, Engineering and Planning
Departments , and the City M.anager
Section I - Technical Report
The San Diego Gas & Electric Company desires to construct
two(2) ,32-foot high by 240-foot diameter, fuel oil tanks on
their property between Interstate 5 and the A.T.&S.F. Railroad.
These tanks are being constructed for immediate storage of "low
sulphur" type fuel oil.
The proposed tanks will be constructed in recessed areas, approximately 20 feet in depth, and will be completely screened
from the freeway and distant residential uses by a densly land-
scaped mound. (The nearest residential uses are located on El
Arbol Drive and Cannon Road, which is approximately 2,000 feet to the South.)
Section 11 - Recommendation
Staff recommends approval of subject application for the following reasons, but subject to the itemized conditions of ap-
proval.
Section 111 - Reasons
1. The construction of said tanks will help assure availability
of low-sulphur type fuels , thus reducing emissions from the
existing generating facility.
Staff Report - CUP for SDG&E's
Additional Fuel Oil Tanks February 3, 1971
Page 2.
Section 111 - Reasons (Continued)
2. The granting of subject application is in the best interest
of the neighborhood, the City and the County.
3. The development of said tanks will not be detrimental to
adjacent properties .
Section IV - Conditions
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Subject tanks shall be used for the storage of those fuel oils which, upon being consumed, shall not have a sulphur
content exceeding .50 percent; being that percentage commonly
associated with the term "Low Sulphur Fuel Oil ."
Provisions for fire protection shall be as required by the
City Fire Department.
Screening and landscaping shall be as proposed on Exhibit "A",
and a full coverage irrigation system shall be constructed.
All grading shall be done in accordance with a Grading Plan, approved by the City Engineer and a qualified soils engineer.
Upon completion of grading, the soils engineer shall certify
that the grading has been completed in accordance with said
Grading Plan and the City's grading ordinance.
That provisions be made, satisfactory to the City Engineer,
to permit passage of the design storm water flow as determined
by the City's Master Drainage Study, as it crosses this
property from Cannon Road to the Rancho Agua Hedionda Lagoon.
J. # ARNOLD
City Manager
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cc: Planning Dept. (2)