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Home My WebLink AboutLCPA 94-02; Affordable Housing; Local Coastal Program Amendment (LCPA) (6)- - 5 ' STATE OF CALIFORNIA-THE RESOURCES AGENCY PETE WILSON, Governor CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION SAN DIEGO COAST AREA 3111 CAMINO DEL R10 NORTH, SUITE 200 SAN DIEGO, CA 92108-1725 (619) 521-8036 February 13, 1996 Gary Wayne Ci ty of Carl sbad 2075 Las Palmas Drive Carlsbad, CA 92009 Re: Assistant Planning Director i ,", Proposed Carlsbad LCP Amendment Package Dear Mr. Wayne, This office received several items representing the above-described request on January 24, 1996. Specifically, the amendment package included, in no specific order other than the manner in which I retrieved them from the box, the fol lowing i tems: - Green Valley Master Plan/LCPA #95-06; - Vi 11 age Area Master P1 an and Design Manual /LCPA #95-10; - Senior Citizen Housing/LCPA #94-02; - Second Dwell i ng Uni ts/LCPA #94-02; - Density Increase/LCPA #93-02; - Affordable Housing Pol i ci es/LCPA #95-01; - Laurel Tree ApartmentsiLCPA #95-02; - Avi ara Planni ng Area #5/Western Paci fi c/LCPA #95-11; - Aviara Planning Area #lZ'/D'Brezza/LCPA #95-13; - Lutheran Homes/LCPA #95-07; - Biological Habitat Preserves/LCPA #95-08; and - Carlsbad Ranch/Legoland/LCPA #90-08(8). As you are well aware, it is a sizeable amendment package that covers a broad array of issues and planning areas. If you see anything missing that the City believed was included or if I have incorrectly identified an item, please note it and advise me immediately of the correction. At this point, I have c Gary Wayne February 13, 1996 Page 2 distributed the various items to several planners here and they have completed only a cursory review to determine whether or not the amendment items are suitable for filing. revi ewi ng the i ndi vi dual submi ttal s for the purpose of i denti fyi ng i ssues and determining how we can best review them and get them scheduled for Coastal Given the scope of the City's amendment, we are still Commission-action, Very shortly, I will need to discuss scheduling with as I am not presently certain that we can process all of the amendment requests at the same meeting given other workload considerations and sta avai 1 abi 1 i ty here. Pursuant to Section 13553 of the Commission's Code of Regulations, the Executive Director has reviewed the transmittal and determined it is not - proper order and legally adequate to comply with the requirements of Pub Resources Code Section 30510(b). Therefore, as of last Wednesday, February 7, 1996, the entire amendment package is not deemed to be filed. However, before you or other responsible staff members get too alarmed, we are more than willing to work with you to rectify certain deficiencies while continuing to process the various items or to re-package the submittal depending on the ci ty' s needs or priori ti es. While there are a number of technical deficiencies (ie. missing mailing lists, notices, staff reports, etc.) that can easily be addressed, there are apparent noticing problems on the Green Valley Master Plan. Laurel Tree Apartments and Biolosical Habitat Preserves amendment requests. These noticing problems preclude the filing of the amendment package as presently submitted. Specifi- cally, to evidence compliance with state regulations and substantiate that the local government sent proper notice to all interested parties, Section 13515 of the California Code of Regulations specifies that LCP notices must be sent, in part, to all the state and federal agencies listed in Appendix A, as amended, in the LCP Manual. Based on a review of the mailing lists submitted for the above three items, it does not now appear that such noticing was completed. A copy of the last update to Appendix A is enclosed for your review. If you believe that such noticing was completed or you have other information to bring to our attention, we are certainly villing to discuss the matter further. Relative to the other deficiencies, the individual planners who will work on the items will separately contact the responsible city staff member for those items. Based on the cursory review to date, the submittal involves amendments to both land use plan and implementation plan elements or, at least a land use plan component, for the Green Valley Master Plan, if ultimately filed; the Village Area Master Plan/Design Manual; the Density Increase amendment; the Laurel Tree Apartments, if ultimately filed; the Aviara Planning Area #s 5 and 12 revisions; the Lutheran Homes amendment; the Affordable Housing Policies; and the Carlsbad Ranch/Legoland amendment. As such, since there is a land use plan amendment element in each of those items, they have been classified as "major" amendments. to review them and we would be agendizing them for review in April at the earl i est. As major amendments, the Coastal Commission has 90 days YOU fing in ic . Gary Wayne February 13, 1996 Page 3 For the Senior Citizen Housi ng ordi nance, Second Dwell i ng Uni ts ordinance and the Biological Habitat Preserves ordinance, if ultimately filed, those items appear to pertain only to implementation plan revisions; and, as such, they must be acted on within 60 days of filing and we will be agendizing them for the March hearings. If you disagree with my preliminary characterization of these items, relafive to whether or not they involve land use plan and/or implementation components, please let me know as soon as possible. However, as I mentioned earlier, the scope of the amendment package is broad and we will need to make some assignment and processing decisions in the next week with your input and consultation. At first glance, my impression is that we will need to separate out several of the amendment items and we will prepare separate reports for each item. Although normally, we prepare only one report for each amendment package, the issues and dimensions of the city's submittal are so disparate that I believe it would be a disservice to all parties to try and process this request in that manner. However, in segmenting the items, it would also seem logical to process all the amendment items relating to housing concerns together, as well as possibly the two Aviara revisions together and the Lutheran Homes request with the Village Area items. Anyway, those are just some preliminary thoughts, we'll be in touch. ,Please don't hesitate to call me if you have any immediate concerns or questions. Sincerely, n De6orah N. Lee Assistant District Director DNL: dl (0866A) cc: Chuck Damm Christer Westman Debbi e Fountai n Chris DeCerbod Mike Grim Anne Hysong Terr i Woods Don Neu . ..