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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983-05-11; Planning Commission; ; CUP 228 - LA COSTA HOTEL & SPA.. . .. • APPL.'ION SUBMITTAL DATE: APRIL :,, 1983 STAFF REPORT DATE: May 11, 1983 TO: Planning Commission FROM: Land Use Planning Office SUBJECT: CUP 228 -LA COSTA HOTEL & SPA -Conditional Use Permit for a nine hole golf course. I. RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the Planning Commission APPROVE the Negative Declaration issued by the Land Use Planning Manager and ADOPT Resolution No. 2114, APPROVING CUP 228 based on the findings and subject to the conditions contained therein. II. PROJECT DESCRIPTION This conditional use permit application is for a nine hole golf course that would be a northerly expansion of the existing twenty seven hole golf course at La Costa. The project site is 85+ acres in size and is located in a valley north of Alga Road and east of El Camino Real. The golf course would extend northward and be bound on the north by the future Carrillo Way. The property is located within the first phase of the La Costa - Northwest Master Plan (neighborhood NW 14). The Master Plan designates this site as open space/golf course with a requirement that a conditional use permit be approved by the Planning Commission. Approximately 290,000 cubic yards of cut and fill will be required to grade the golf course. Attached for your review is a conceptual grading plan which indicates that the existing natural topography will not be altered significantly. Drainage is to the south via a drainage swale proposed along the eastern boundary of the course. This swale will tie into the existing drainage system of the La Costa golf course via three existing 84 inch pipes lying under Alga Road. Also, a golf cart undercrossing for Alga Road will also serve as a drainage culvert to alleviate overflows of the drainage pipes. The only structure proposed is a restroom facility to be located towards the north end of the course. III. ANALYSIS Planning Issues 1. Is the proposed golf course consistent with the La Costa Master Plan and the city's General Plan? ., • • Discussion The Planning Commission may recall approving a general plan amendment and master plan amendment to readjust the interior neighborhood boundaries of the La Costa Northwest area. This amendment was approved in October, 1982 by the City Council and resulted in a reduction of the area of the proposed golf course from 105 acres to 85 acres. The conditional use permit before you tonight is consistent with the amended master plan and general plan. The master plan indicates certain public facilities that must be provided for at the time individual neighborhoods develop. In the case of the golf course, the applicant is required to provide for one-half the improvement of both Alga Road and the future Carrillo Way along the frontage of the golf course. These improvements have been included as conditions of approval. In all other respects, the proposed conditional use permit is consistent with the La Costa Master Plan and the city's general plan. Also, all findings required for a conditional use permit can be made as indicated in the attached resolution, therefore, staff is recommending approval of CUP-228. IV. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW The Land Use Planning Manager has determined that this project will not have a significant effect on the environment and, therefore, has issued a Negative Declaration on April 26, 1983. ATTACHMENTS 1. Planning Commission Resolution No. 2114 2. Location Map 3. Background Data Sheet 4. Letter from Paul Grahm, dated April 6, 1983, w/attachment 5. Disclosure Statement 6. Environmental Documents 7. Exhibits A,B, & C, dated April 12, 1983 BH:bw 5/3/83 2 . . L~ATION MA ,r •• SITE LA COSTA NORTH GOLF COURS~ CUP-228 ·' • • BACKGROUND DATA SHEET CASE NO: CUP-228 APPLICANT: La Costa Hotel & Spa RmUEST AND LOCATION: Nine hole golf course addition to the La Costa Golf Course: North of Alga Road, East of El Canuno Real. LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Portion of Parcel 3 of Parcel Map 1188 recorded in San Diego County. APN: Acres 85 Proposed No. of I.Dts/Units ---------- GENERAL PIAN AND ZONING Land Use Designation OS -------- Density Allowed ----------Density Proposed --------- Existing Zone PC Proposed Zone ------------------- Surrounding Zoning and Land Use: zoning Site PC North PC South PC East PC West PC FUBLIC FACILITIES Land Use Vacant Vacant SFR and Golf Course Vacant Vacant School District Water Carlsbad Sewer Carlsbad EDU's ----------- Public Facilities Fee Agreanent, dated March 30, 1983 ------------------ ENVIRONMENT AL IMPACT ASSESSMENT ~Negative Declaration, issued April 26, 1983 E.I.R. Certified, dated ---------------- other, • LRCDStR EXECUTIVE OFFICES April 6, 1983 Mr. William Hofman Planning Department City of Carlsbad 1200 Elm Street Carlsbad, CA 92008 • PG-312 Subject: PROJECT DESCRIPTION, GOLF COURSE EXPANSION RANCHO LA COSTA Dear Mr. Hofman: Rancho La Costa, Inc. is making application for a Conditional Use Permit to expand our present nine-hole golf course into a full eighteen-hole golfing facility. The expansion project will be approximately 4,000 feet long by 1,000 feet wide. In addition to the tees, fairways and greens, the expansion will include locations for restrooms. The site itself is within the La Costa Master Plan which was approved by the City Council on December 16, 1980, and includes the latest amendment approved by the City Council, November 5, 1982. Exhibit III-I designated the area NW14 (Golf Course). Due to the design of the course, the 105 acres originally assigned to the facility have been reduced to approximately 85 acres. Currently, the project area is owned by the Daon Corpora- tion. However, the agreement between Daon and Rancho La Costa stipulated that the area would be reconveyed to Rancho La Costa, Inc. upon our request. The Daon Corporation has no objection to the reconveyance. Presently, La Costa has an eighteen-hole PGA Championship course, which is used for both recreational and professional tournament play, in addition to the aforementioned nine holes generally used for overflow golfers and by guests who do not desire to play the full course. COSTA DEL MAR ROAD • CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA 92008 • AREA CODE 714 • TELEPHONE 438-9111 • • PG-312 April 6, 1983 Page Two As a matter of interest and to demonstrate our need for expansion, there were 63,477 rounds of golf played at La Costa in 1981, which averages out to 174 players per day, each day of the year. In addition, La Costa annually hosts the PGA Tournament of Champions, along with the PGA Medal Play Champion- ship and the John Hine Cup Matches, in which local amateurs compete against PGA professionals. Club membership, Hotel guest and tournament play has grown to the point where it has become increasingly more difficult to accomodate all of the golfers who desire to use the present courses. The proposed CONDO 5 time share project and the future plans to add some 200 rooms to the Hotel itself will exacerbate the situation. The expansion will provide Carlsbad with two of the finest golf courses in the Country --both built to PGA Championship standards --and will greatly add to the impressive list of tourist attractions already in place. Sincerely, RANCHO LA COSTA /4'1 PAUL Vice President PG:gh .• • • RICK ENGINEERING COMPANY I :¼A~~11~tc~~mrtt/~ 365 SO. RANCHO SANTA FE ROAD • SUITE 100 SAN MARCOS, CALIFORNIA 92069 • 714/744-4800 March 23, 1983 TEES: LA COSTA NORTH GOLF COURSE CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT DESCRIPTION This Conditional Use Permit application is for a nine hole regulation golf course approximately 3,500 yards in length. It will be a northerly extension of the existing twenty seven hole golf course at La Costa. The project site is 85± acres in size and is located north of Alga Road, east of El Camino Real, and south of the proposed Carrillo Way. The following items will be discussed as a part of this landscape/irrigation text: 0 Tees 0 Greens 0 Fairways and Roughs 0 Lakes 0 Sand Traps 0 Irrigation system 0 0 0 0 0 Trees and Shrubs Restrooms and Storage Facilities Cart paths Access/Maintenance Road Fencing There will be nine tees approximately 2,000 square feet in size. They will be planted with "Santa Ana" variety of Hybrid Bermuda sod. GREENS: The course will have square feet in size. Bent Grass (Agrostis FAIRWAYS AND ROUGHS: nine greens approximately 6,000 They will be seeded with Penncross Stolonifera). The areas between and adjacent to tees and greens will be initially seeded with Common Bermuda (Cynodon Dactylon) and overseeded on an annual basis with Perennial Ryegrass seed (Lolium Perenne). This combination of grasses pro- vide excellent turf for golf play and erosion control. Page One of Four • • LAKES: Five lakes will provide for increased accuracy on golf shots, an aesthetic environment, and a holding reservior for the irrigation system. Where the lakes are joined in sequence a circulation pump will move water from lower elevations to upper portions to aid in the control of algae. SAND TRAPS: Approximately forty five traps will be placed in the fairways and near greens as golf hazards. The traps will consist of white Hacienda Silica sand. IRRIGATION SYSTEM: An automatic electric sprinkler system will water the golf course as programmed. The system will include a Rainbird l½ inch valve under each sprinkler head on 80 foot spacings. The water will originate from a central lake and will be pumped throughout the system by two centrifugal pumps at 700 gallons per minute. An 8 inch main line running down the centers of the fairways will distribute the water to the lateral lines. TREES AND SHRUBS: There will be approximately 1,500 trees and 500 shrubs planted on the 85 acres. They will help guide the players and provide for improved aesthetics. Initial tree sizes will be 15 gallon, 24 inch and 30 inch boxes. Shrubs will generally be 5 gallon contrainer size. A plant list is as follows: COMMON NAME Bailey Acacia Arizona Cypress Leylandii Cypress Sweet Gum Red Gum Red Flowering Gum Silver Dollar Gum Olive Alleppo Pine Italian Stone Pine Torrey Pine California Sycamore Weeping Willow California Pepper Page Two of Four TREES BOTANICAL NAME Acacia Baileyana Cupressus Glabra Cupressocyparis Leylandii Liquidarnbar Styraciflua Eucalyptus Camaldulensis Eucalyptus Ficifolia Eucalypus Polyanthemos Olea Europaea Pinus Halepensis Pinus Pinea Pinus Torreyana Platenus Racemosa Salix Babylonica Schinus Molle • Sydney Golden Wattle Lemon Bottle Brush Pink Malalevca Myoporum Oleander RESTROOMS/STORAGE FACILITIES: SHRUBS • Acacia Longifolia Callistemon Lanceolatus Melaleuca Nosophila Myoporum Laetum Nerium Oleander Located at the north end of the site will be provisions for restrooms,-drinking fountains, and storage facilities. CARTPATHS: Asphalt and/or concrete cartpaths will provide ease of movement for players throughout the golf course. They will be approximately 6 to 8 feet wide. MAINTENANCE/ACCESS ROAD: A 20± foot wide maintenance road willbelocated at the western side of the property. It will provide main- tenance equipment access between Alga Road and Carrillo Way. FENCING: Cyclone fencing and gates will be installed where nec- essary for the protection of the golf course. The fence will be coated with green plastic and will be 5 to 6 feet high. DRAINAGE: A. Existing Drainage The golf course lies within a wide, relatively flat, valley floor and drains south towards Alga Road. Run- off from an area of approximately 2,848 acres, or 4.45 square miles, drains into the area where the Golf Course is proposed. The flow through the Golf Course can best be described as a flood plain. The flood water spread and flow slowly overland to Alga Road. Existing drainage facilities consist of a small low-flow drainage swale along a portion of the eastern side of the valley. The runoff concentrates at Alga Road where three existing 84 inch reinforced concrete pipes carry the water beneath Alga Road and into the existing golf course where it joins San Marcos Creek. Significant floods, such as a 100 year storm, temporarily pond be- hind Alga Road until the storm subsides. Page Three of Four . , , • • B. Proposed Golf Course Drainage In general the grading for the golf course will reshape and level portions of the existing topography to ac- comodate necessary tees, greens, lakes, fairways, etc. However, the manner in which the existing drainage flows through the valley will not be altered. The low flow runoff will still concentrate in a low flow swale at the eastern side of the golf course and major storm run- off will flow overland as a wide flood plain to Alga Road where it will flow under Alga Road into the existing La Costa Golf Course. At present time most of the tributory runoff entering the golf course is from drainage areas consisting of un- developed and vacant land. Development of any of these drainage areas will significantly increase the runoff entering the area of the porposed golf course. The golf course will be desiqned for an interim condition which will; accommodate flows from the existing drainage areas and accommodate future storm drain facilities which will be required as a part of any future development. A golf cart undercrossing for Alga Road will double as a drainage culvert to alliviate the ultimate flows and reduce the ponding at Alga Road. Storm drain facilities will be installed at several loca- tions to collect runoff from the westerly side of the golf course and carry the water under the golf course. The location and size of the storm drain crossings will anticipate future development. GRADING: The design concept of grading the golf course, in general, is to rework a portion of the existing valley to better accomodate the necessary fairway landing areas, greens, tees, and lakes. The basic shape of the Golf Course will conform to the existing topography, and much of the existing landforms will remain unchanged. The golf course grades will anticipate the future line and grade of Carrillo Way as to minimize reworking the golf course grades when Carrillo Way is built. Page Four of Four If after the informati6'ou have.sub.~itted has been .iewed, it is determined. . 'l,hat further inforrnati~s required, yoµ wi1l be so Zised. • I APPLICANT: La Costa Hotel & Spa, a Calif9rnia general partnership AGENT: MEMBERS: Name (individual, partnership, joint venture, corporation, syndication) Costa Del Mar Road, Carlsbad, CA 92008 Business Address ·114-438-9111 . -T~lephone Number .-._·.Paul Graham Name Costa Del Mar Rd., Carlsbad, CA 92008 Business Address ,. 714-438-9111 Telephone Number (See following supplemental sheet) Name 0(individual, partner, joint Home Address • venture, corpo~ation, syndication) Business Address Telephone Nu."!l:ber Telephone Number Home Address ~~siness Address =elephone Nu."'ll.ber Tel.ephone Number (Attach more sheets if necessary) I/We decla=: under penalty of perjury that the information contained in this dis- closure is t=-ue and correct and that it will remain true and correct and may be relied upo~ as being true and correct until amended. - ~ PaulG~ Applicant uv AaPnt- : i I i I ' • 1--~-- I - ~-~ -I L--. i. ----'4 • I 1 ·•. 1---:-,--'T--i 1----I I I I, I ----J I I I I . 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