HomeMy WebLinkAbout2004-09-01; Planning Commission; Resolution 56911
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PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 5691
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, RECOMMENDING
APPROVAL OF HILLSIDE DEVELOPMENT PERMIT HDP 03-
01 TO ALLOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HOTEUTIME-
SHARE RESORT WITH 350 HOTEL ROOMS AND 350
TIMESHARE UNITS ON PROPERTY GENERALLY
LOCATED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CANNON ROAD, EAST
OF ARMADA DRIVE AND WEST OF FARADAY AVENUE
WITHIN LOCAL FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ZONE 13.
CASENAME: CARLSBAD RANCH PLANNING AREA 5-
RESORT SITE
CASE NO.: HDP 03-01
WHEREAS, Grand Pacific Resorts Inc., “Developer,” has filed a verified
application with the City of Carlsbad regarding property owned by Carlsbad Estate Holding,
Inc., “Owner,” described as
Boundary Parcel “A” of C.O.C. recorded March 9, 1998 as
Doc. #1998-125301 per City of Carlsbad Boundary Adjustment
Plat No. 498 and Lot 20 of Carlsbad Tract 94-09, in the City of
Carlsbad, County of San Diego, State of California, according
to Map thereof No. 13408, filed in the Office of the County
Recorder of San Diego County on April 1,1997
(“the property”); and
WHEREAS, said verified application constitutes a request for a Hillside
Development Permit as shown on Exhibits “A 1” - “A-44,” ‘‘C 1” - ‘‘C 33,” “L-1” - ‘2-23,”
and “H 1” - “H 9” dated August 18, 2004, on file in the Carlsbad Planning Department,
CARLSBAD RANCH PLANNING AREA 5-RESORT SITE - HDP 03-01 as provided by
Chapter 21.95 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission did, on the 1st day of September 2004,
hold a duly noticed public hearing as prescribed by law to consider said request; and
WHEREAS, at said public hearing, upon hearing and considering all testimony
and arguments, if any, of all persons desiring to be heard, said Commission considered all factors
relating to the HDP.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by the Planning
Commission of the City of Carlsbad as follows:
A) That the foregoing recitations are true and correct.
B) That based on the evidence presented at the public hearing, the Commission
RECOMMENDS APPROVAL of CARLSBAD RANCH PLANNING AREA
5-RESORT SITE - HDP 03-01 based on the following findings and subject to
the following conditions:
Findings:
1. Undevelopable areas of the project, pursuant to Section 21.53.230(b) of the CMC, have
been properly identified.
2. The project complies with the purpose and intent provisions of Sections 21.95.010 and
21.95.612 of the CMC in that hillside conditions are properly identified and are
incorporated in the design. The project is designed to relate to the slope of the land
and alteration of natural hillside will be done in an environmentally sensitive
manner so that lagoons and riparian ecosystems will be protected from increased
erosion and no substantial impacts to natural resources, wildlife habitats or native
areas will occur.
3. The project design substantially conforms to the hillside development guidelines manual
in that the project complies with the design standards contained in the manual which
include screening of hillside drainage and grading volumes.
4. The project is consistent with the City-Wide Facilities and Improvements Plan, the Local
Facilities Management Plan for Zone 13 and all City public facility policies and
ordinances. The project includes elements or has been conditioned to construct or
provide funding to ensure that all facilities and improvements regarding: sewer collection
and treatment; water; drainage; circulation; fire; schools; parks and other recreational
facilities; libraries; government administrative facilities; and open space, related to the
project will be installed to serve new development prior to or concurrent with need.
Specifically,
a. Park-in-lieu fees are required by Carlsbad Municipal Code Chapter 20.44, and
will be collected prior to issuance of building permits.
b. The Public Facility fee is required to be paid by Council Policy No. 17 and will be
collected prior to the issuance of building permit.
5 The Planning Commission of the City of Carlsbad does hereby find:
a. it has reviewed, analyzed and considered the Mitigated Negative Declaration, the
environmental impacts therein identified for this project and said comments
thereon, and Mitigation, Monitoring and Reporting Program (the Program), on
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file in the Planning Department, prior to RECOMMENDING APPROVAL of
the project; and
the Mitigated Negative Declaration and the Program have been prepared in
accordance with requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, the
State Guidelines and the Environmental Protection Procedures of the City of
Carlsbad; and
b.
c. they reflect the independent judgment of the Planning Commission of the City of
Carlsbad; and
d. based on the EIA Part I1 and comments thereon, the Planning Commission, finds
that there is no substantial evidence the project will have a significant effect on
the environment.
6. The Planning Commission hereby finds that the Program is designed to ensure that
during project implementation the Developer and any other responsible parties implement
the project components and comply with the feasible mitigation measures identified in
the CEQA Findings and the Program.
7. The Planning Commission has reviewed each of the exactions imposed on the Developer
contained in this resolution, and hereby finds, in this case, that the exactions are imposed
to mitigate impacts caused by or reasonably related to the project, and the extent and the
degree of the exaction is in rough proportionality to the impact caused by the project.
Conditions:
Note: Unless otherwise specified herein, all conditions shall be satisfied prior to the approval of
final map, issuance of grading permit, or issuance of a building permit, whichever
occurs first.
1. If any of the following conditions fail to occur; or if they are, by their terms, to be
implemented and maintained over time, if any of such conditions fail to be so
implemented and maintained according to their terms, the City shall have the right to
revoke or modify all approvals herein granted; deny or further condtion issuance of all
future building permits; deny, revoke or further condition all certificates of occupancy
issued under the authority of approvals herein granted; record a notice of violation on the
property title; institute and prosecute litigation to compel their compliance with said
conditions or seek damages for their violation. No vested rights are gained by Developer
or a successor in interest by the City’s approval of this Hillside Development Permit.
2. Staff is authorized and directed to make, or require the Developer to make, all corrections
and modifications to the Hillside Development Permit documents, as necessary to make
them internally consistent and in conformity with the final action on the project.
Development shall occur substantially as shown on the approved Exhibits. Any proposed
development different from this approval, shall require an amendment to this approval.
3. This approval is granted subject to the approval of the Mitigated Negative Declaration
and Addendum and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program and SP 207(E),
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LCPA 90-08(D), CT 03-02, SDP 03-02, CDP 03-04, PUD 03-01 and CUP 03-01 and is
subject to all conditions contained in Planning Commission Resolutions No. 5685,5693,
5692, 5686, 5687, 5688, 5689 and 5690 for those other approvals incorporated herein
by reference.
4. Developer/Operator shall and does hereby agree to indemnify, protect, defend and hold
harmless the City of Carlsbad, its Council members, officers, employees, agents, and
representatives, from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, demands, claims
and costs, including court costs and attorney’s fees incurred by the City arising, directly
or indirectly, from (a) City’s approval and issuance of this Hillside Development
Permit, (b) City’s approval or issuance of any permit or action, whether discretionary or
non-discretionary, in connection with the use contemplated herein.
NOTICE
Please take NOTICE that the approval of your project includes the “imposition” of fees,
dedications, reservations, or other exactions hereafter collectively referred to for convenience as
“fees/exactions.”
You have 90 days from date of final approval to protest imposition of these feedexactions. If
you protest them, you must follow the protest procedure set forth in Government Code Section
66020(a), and file the protest and any other required information with the City Manager for
processing in accordance with Carlsbad Municipal Code Section 3.32.030. Failure to timely
follow that procedure will bar any subsequent legal action to attack, review, set aside, void, or
annul their imposition.
You are hereby FURTHER NOTIFIED that your right to protest the specified feedexactions
DOES NOT APPLY to water and sewer connection fees and capacity charges, nor planning,
zoning, grading or other similar application processing or service fees in connection with this
project; NOR DOES IT APPLY to any feedexactions of which you have previously been given a
NOTICE similar to this, or as to which the statute of limitations has previously otherwise
expired.
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PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Planning
Commission of the City of Carlsbad, California, held on the 1st day of September 2004, by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Chairperson Whitton, Commissioners Baker, Dominguez,
Heineman, Montgomery, and Segall
NOES:
ABSENT: Commissioner Cardosa
ABSTAIN:
CARLSBAD PLANNING COMMISSION
ATTEST:
Planning Director
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