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CITY OF CARLSRAD
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AGENDA BILL NO. j' 9 7
DATE : ' August 7, 1979
Dept . €Id.
C. Atty.pF4
DEPARTMENT: City Manager ' C. Mgr. p\l
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Subject: DISCRETIONARY PLANNING APPLICATIONS
SAN MARCOS SEWER PLANT REACTIVATION ..
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Statement of the Matter
By memo dated July 2, 1979, the City Manager informed the Council
of his intention to allow the processing of some development
applications for that portion of the City served by San Marcos I County Water District. That decision was made based on the letter of sewer availability received from the District. The Manager's memo indicated that if the Council wished to discuss
this action, the matter would be placed on the Council agenda,
if requested.
Exhibits
City Manager's memo dated July 2, 1979.
San Marcos County Water District letter dated May 29, 1979.
La Costa Land Company letter dated May 1, 1979.
San Marcos County:Water District letter of availability, April 30, 1979.
City Attorney memo to City Manager dated Jul 27, 1979. Memo from Planning Director dated 8-16-75 (Population Forecast
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3-17-79
Recommendation Update) -
That development applications be allowed to proceed, consistent
with the current letter of availability, but that Council
instruct the City Attorney to prepare an amendment to the
Moratorium Ordinance which would provide an exception to the
moratorium when the Council makes a finding that sewer service
is reasonably expected to be available concurrent with need. '
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Counci 1 Action:
8-7-79 Council continued the matter to the meeting of August 21, 1979.
8-21-79 Council continued the matter to August 2.9; 1979.
8-29-79 Council approved staff recommendation.
DATE : JULY 2, 1979
TO : MAYOR AND COUNCIL
FROM: City Manager
SUBJECT: PLANNING APPLICATIONS/LA COSTA
I am aware that some or all of you have recently had discussions with La Costa Land Company representatives concerning certain land use matters including the application of the planning
moratorium to their projects. Independent of those discussions,
the City staff has been reviewing with San Mzxcos County Water
District, their plans to reactivate the old 51:- Marcos County
Water District sewer plant.
San Marcos.County Water District has issued a qaalified letter
of availability dated April 30, 1979. The I;L=mEtd rezctivation
and later expansion of the plant will occur 5- several phases and at least some of these phases will requirt City zoning approvals. A permit for the project has be22 issued by the
State Regional Water Quality Control Board.
The City Code provides that applications for approvals located
within that portion of the City of Carlsbad within the service territory of the San Marcos or Leucadia County Water Districts
may be accepted and processed provided the applicant submits in
conjunction with his application a letter from such district
indicating that the sewer services are available in connection with the development. The application may be approved if the appropriate decision making body finds that sewer service remains available and will continue to remain available concurrent with
need in connection with the development.
As with the Leucadia sewer capacity, it would be useful to start
the planning process some time before the capacity is actually
on line. As I did with the Leucadia capacity, I am sharing this
information with you. It is my intention to allow planning
applications for which there is an availability letter from
San Marcos County :cater District to proceed, The normal precautions will 5e taken to inform applicants that they do so
at their own risk. Projects will also be conditioned with appropriate sewer conditions and oth?er public facility reyuire-
ments consiste,rt with Council policy.
If any member of =2? Council has zpy conceril relative to the
matter, I will ;Lzzz the matter EA the next regular Council
meetir.5.
PAU 3 D. BUSSEY
City Manager
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th& general plan provision, and in view of the fact that. sewer
service in most cases is unavailable, the City Council has
determined that it is necessary to impose a m.orakoriu? an the
processing of developmental approvals.
(c) It is also the purpose and intent of this chapter to provide for the eventuality that additional amounts of sewage
treatment capacity will become available and to provide authori-y- for the adoption', .by the City Council, by resolution, of a system.
for allocating that capacity among competing demands, Such an .
allocation would authorize an applicant to process a developmen$ in accordance with the usual city procedures, - -.
21.49.020 Planning Moratorium, No-hJith s tanding any
provisions of the Carlsbad Municipal Code to the contrary, - application, processing OJ approval of any entitlement for
development pursuant to Title 20 or Title 21 e5 the Carlsbad Hunicipal Code is hereby prohibited except as Sallows :
portion of the City of Carlsbad within the sszzke territory of
the San Marcos or Leucadia County Water DistrLzzs may be accepted and processed provided the applicant submits L: conjunction with
his application a letter from such district FzZicating that the sewer services are available in connection wLL~ &the development,
The application may be approved if the approFz5ite decision-making body finds that sewer service remains availa5h and will continue
to remain available concurrent with need in comection with the __ development .
2. Applications for conditional use permits, -variances, reversions to acreage, certificates of. compliance and adjustm2nt
plots may be accepted, processed and approved if the City Manager
determines that the approval of such item will not- require any
new sewer connection permit, The City Manager's determination may be appealed to the City Council, whose decision shall be
final. Discretionary approvals in connection with the Plaza
Cdno Real expansion may be processed,.'accepted and approved.
Any necessary applications _for projects undertaken
by the City of Carlsbad may be accepted, processed and approved-
necessary to proceed with the annexation of the Palomar Airport
and any applications necessary in that regard may be accepted, processed and approved-
provides an alternative riethod of sewer disposal for the project
site may be accepted, processed ar-d approved.
of other govexnre-zzl agencies if the City Council in its sole discretion deter-LK2.s that the project is necessary and in the public in teres t -
may be acceptecZ* ?rsczssec? and approved subject to the imposition of certain conditis~s, to insure that the Tentative Map cannot
be finaled witfioxt ske finding by the City Council that adequate
sewer service is available,
1. Applications for approvals locate? within that
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5, The City Manager is authorized to take all the steps
5. Any application for which the Carlsbad Municipal Code
7. The City Council may grant exceptj-ons for projects
8. An-':==-- py- -- -loris for Tentative Subdivis-ion .Map extensions
9. The City Council nay grant exceptions for projects
CRCIIOCNT
OBY BIANCHARD
VICC CRRSIa.NT STANLEY A. MAHR
DIR LCTORS
HARRY a. KEEBAUGH
MARGARET E. FERGUSON
LEO P. SMITH
GLNIRAL MANAGLR
JAMES F. McXAY
Arr0RN.Y
VERNON A. PELTZER
sari marcos county bdter district
PHONE (714) 744-0460 788 SAN MARCOS BOULEVARD SAN MARCOS. CALIFORNIA 92069
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May 29, 1979
Mr. Paul D. Bussey, City Administrator
Ci ty of Carl s bad 1200 Elm Avenue Carlsbad, California 92008
Dear Mr. Bussey:
After construction of facilities which allowed S5,n Harcos County Water District to connect and transport all of 5s District's sewage to the Encina facility for treatment, th's District moth- balled its treatment plant located in San MarcGs Qnyon. were terminate into our old treatment plant approximately in August 1969. -
At the time the p?ant was shut down, it was the District's'intent to reactivate the plant at a future date for reclamation, as evidenced by our construction of diversion works in our Encina
project, which would allow flows to be returned to the old treat- ment plant for reclamation. as a contact stabilization plant. the flows were averaging 0.6505 million gallons per day (see Exhibit "A").
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San Marcos operated its facilities At the time of the shut down
The plant was reactivated as a training plant operated by-the State of California Water Quality Control Institute. Prior to reactivation, the State made certain rnadifications to the physical plant, converting it to a conventional activated sludge process. The current plans for the plant as discussed in the enclosed "La Costa Northeast/San Marcos County Water Di strict Waste Water Treatment and Reclamation Project" is to convert the plant to an extended aeration process whi ch wi 11 requi re the en1 argenent of certain conponents and the addition of others to achieve a
600,000 g.p.d- plant capable of meeting todays discharge require- ments. Thi s wf i 1 i nvol ve terti ary treatment, the construction
of a 90 day fz::-safe storage reservoir (54 million gallons), a
Mr. Paul D. Bussey - 2- May 29, 1979 .
balancing reservoi r and the necessary pumps and appurtenances to distribute the reclaimed water to lands specifically pre- pared with landscaping suitable for the application of reclaimed water. Design of the project is under way. The E.I.R. is complete and a copy enclosed for your information and files. Permit to discharge has been filed with the State Regional Water Quality Control Board and their Order #79-23 "Waste Discharge Requirements" is attached. The purpose of this project is two fold: dwelling unit equivalents for use within the Sa2 Xarcos County Water District service area and, which would otherwise be wasted into the PacifSz, Ellowing a secondary use of our water supply.
1 - to provide treatment capacity for a3sr;ximately 2400
2 - the rectzzation of water,
The City of Carlsbad adopted General Plan desi;zzlas our plant site as a Public Utility, but it is our underszrzding that the City zoning does. not conform to the General Plzr., desire of this District to proceed as rapidly 2s Fossible and
we respectifully request the City to notify us what steps will be necessary to accomplish the zone change.
It is the
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Sincerely,
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May
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12.202
13,333
14.158 .
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13.591
1'5.488
14.720
14.649
14.680
14.620
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171,245
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Avg. f los.r/x~~onth-14.270
Avg. yal/min. 330.0
Avg. flow/day -4756
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15.171
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15.510
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187.133
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Avg. f low/month-15.594
Avg. flow/day -5138
Avg. Gal./n\in. 361.0
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40.53
37.43
40.91
43.43
42.65
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45.90
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573.33
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May 1, 1979
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Mr. Paul D. Bussey
City Manager
CITY OF CARLSBAD
Car I sbad, Ca 1 i f orni a 92008
Subject: Agreement between La Costa Land Company and San Marcos County
Water District I
In a separate letter, copy of which is attached, the San Marcos C3i;nty Water District
has informed your planning director that sewer service is avaiicbis for a propossd
Planned Unit Development in the Meadowlark area (up to 300 ec;,hs.zlent dweliing
units), subject to La Costa Land Company’s performance of ihe prz-risions of a contract
described in paragraph 3 of thpt letter.
For your information, we are submitting to you a copy of that a.q=.snent for ths design
and construction of reclamation facilities between the La Costa Land Company and the _- San Marcos County Water District. .,
Before summarizing the contents of the agreement, I should inform you that we will be
requesting and presumably the District will be providing sewer service avoi1abifity letters
for up to an additional 500 EDU. Certainly, we will be requesting sewer service avail-
ability letters for the Rancheros (92 E.D.U.s) and the Meadowbrook area, north of Alga
Road (up to 350 E. D.U .s) .
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In general terms, the agreement provides khat the La Costa Land Compny.wiII, on behalf
of the Districi;
1) Renovate and reactivate the exisking sewer plant at the mouth of the San Marcos
Canyon; and
2) Expand the capacity of the sewer plant to 600,000 gallons per day; and
3) Build a fail-safe lakt (54 million gallons); aRd
4) Build a balancing reservoir; and
5) Provide areas fs 5s cmstructive use of sewer effluent for up to 500,000 gallons
of sewer effluent PO; 5~;. i?iesumably, the District will eventually find other uses
for lCj0,GCO gall~~ zt: tz;!,)
(Continued)
COSTA DEL MAR ROAD - CARLSEAD,CALlFORNIA 92008 - AREA CODE 714 - TELEPHONE 43.3-9kll
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a' . Mr. Paul D. Eussey, City Manager,
City of Carlsbad
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May 1, 1979
The areas to be planted and maintained in the Meadowlark, Meadowbrook and Rancheros areas
will be landscaped as part of the suklivisions (or Planned Unit Developments) described above.
There will be a Master Homeowners Association for the entire area and a Master Homeowners
Association in each of the subdivisions. One of the responsibilities of these homeowners associ-
ations will be to coordinate the use of sewer effluent. No individual resident will be able to
obtain access io the sewer effluent lines.
Obviously, the use of sewer effluent will require dual piping systems throughout the northecst
area and withwt the coordinated development of all facets of the p1m, the progrcm will fail.
As you are aware, the Rancheros project may proceed without further 7:uisuit of the La Costa
Master Plan. Since the Meadowlark and Meadowbrook areas are ptcr.;.,td for Planned Unit
Developments (PUD's), it does not appear that Master Plan approval ?s ;squired (see Section
21.45.030 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code). However, while the Pt'3's ore being reviewed, it is our
intention to also proceed with the Master Plan process.
1 am sure that you can understand'that the processing of these project5 tre of significant import-
arxe to our company. The entire project appears completely consisten? with the General Plan
of the City of Carlsbad. The orderly development will eliminate the clead-ended Alga Road
and allow traffic to go through to Melrose and Rancho Santa Fe Road. The Canon Park site
will be dedicated. We are sure that as part of ail that processing, we will work out satisfactory
arrangements with the San Marcos School District as far as educational facilities cre concerned,
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
LA COSTA LAND COMPANY
Fred J. Morey
Vice President%overnrnental Relations
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cc: City Attorney
Planning Director
Public Warks Director
City of Carlsbad
.TlonmaT
lERNON A. PELTZER
\pril 30, 1979
City of Carlsbad
3.200 Elm Avenue
Carlsbad, California 92008
Attention: Director of Planning
Re: Sewer Service: . La Costa Land Com2any Propased.
Planned Unit Development f "Neadowlark" f
La Costa Land Company, the fee ower 02 the land
described in Exhibit "A" , [Applicant] , 5as requested
the San Marcos County Water District Z3isfrictJ to
provide a sewer service availability lztter for
a planned unit develognent of the subjzct property
[ "Meadowlark" 3 .
This property is located within the District and within the sewer service Improvement Districts, and
is eligible to receive service, no connecting facilities in the immediate vicinity - .
of the project, and the Applicant will be required
to meet the following conditions for service 05 the
property t
The District has
1. Construct all on-site and off-site sewer facili-
ties to conr,ect: the proposed project to District
facilities and dedicate the facilities to the District in accordance with the District's standards, rules
and regulations.
2, Pay all fees required by the District on denand
by District,
3. Perform the terms of the "Agreement for Design
and Construction of the Reclamation Facilities Between
La Costa Lzrrd CGmpany and San Elarcos County Water
District" with effective date of March 19, 1973,
[Reclamaticn Agreement], to provide the facilities
and capcit2- to handle the sewage for this project,
Subject tc th3 foregoincj conditions, this District
will provi2e the project up to and including 300
dwelling xnit equivalents (computed at the rate of
250 gallons per day per DUE) with actual connections
to the systen to be scheduled and provided in accord-
ance with the terns of the P?CLAMA'L'I:ON AGECEFEEiT,
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City of Carlsbad; Director of Planning
RP: Sewer Service; La Costa ~2nd Company Proposed planned
U ni t e d D eve 1 Opme n t f ” Plead OW 1 a r k ” ]
April 30, 1973
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It is understood by Applicant that this letter is based upon
existing conditions and is issued for planning purposes and that the- conditions precedent specified above must be satisfied
before service will be provided.
This comitment to provide service has been made by the Board
of Directors and is subject to the Applicants’ compliance with .
the applicable rules, regulations, ordinances, procedures and
policies of the District, including those relating to fees and
charges, the California Enviro,mental Quality Act of 1970, as
mended, the applicant’s agreement to construct any on-site and off-site facilities, together with the a92licant’s providing
security as required by the District for such construction,
This letter of availability pertains solely tc; +he pro2osed
project and is not transferable to any other aroject, is not transferable to any other parcel of land, anC Fs not trans- ferable to any othe? applicant,
provision, whether or not legally effective ta accomplish a
transfer, automatically renders this letter null and void,
This letter is void and of no further force and effectjon or
after I June 1382,
SAN MARCOS COUNTY WATER DISTRICT
Any act in violation or‘ this
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General Manager
JFM cK/VAP/nc
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La Costa Land Cornpc7ny’’-
Smith & Peltzer, Attention: Vernon A- Peltzer, Esq-
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THE LAND REFERREO TO HEREIN ZS SITUATED IN THE STATE OF .- CALfFORNIBo COUNJY OF SAN PIEGO9 AND IS DESCRIBED AS FOLCOHS:
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WARTER OF SECTIDN 29 AND.OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER QF SECTION 30 TOMNSHIF
a2 SOUTH^ RANGE 3 JEST^ SAN EERNARDINO MERIOIAN~ FXRTLY rN THE CITY OF
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