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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCT 93-09; Ocean Bluff; Tentative Map (CT) (17)FEBRUARY 23, 1994 TO: DAVID MAUSER, ASSISTANT CITY ENGINEER ROBERT WOJCIK, PRINCIPAL CIVIL ENGINEER ANNE HYSONG, PROJECT PLANNER FROM: Jim Davis CT 93-09, OCEANBLUFF ITEMS PROPOSED FOR DISCUSSION AT THE UPCOMING FEBRUARY 28, 1994 MEETING The 2-22-94 submittal* shows the existing dirt road along the water line easement as the proposed secondary access. Prior discussions with engineering supervision has revealed that engineering will find this secondary access unacceptable. I am having difficulty in finding reasons why the access will be unacceptable. The only difficulties I see do not appear to be able to sustain a denial or cause a redesign, but are listed as follows: a. The road is lengthy, about a half mile to Camino de las Ondas and Alga Road if Mariners Point constructs Camino de las Ondas. If not the length goes to about a third of a mile. This appears acceptable to me. b. The road after being regraded and improved, will have some steep sections of about 12 percent grade or a little more, but well under 14 Percent. This also appears acceptable to me. c. The road, presently dirt, access's agricultural use along the length. Any private easements that the owners grant and our acceptance of the secondary access might look like the City tacitly agrees to the continued use of the road. This could be interpreted to mean a "quasi-public" road status. I do not really believe this would become a serious problem. d. To make the establishment of the secondary access definite and to remain in affect as long as needed and yet not interfere with completion of the public circulation system is the only serious problem that I see with this secondary access. I do not know what course this "interference" would take, if any and that is my major concern. TWO POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: 1 . Condition that a secondary access is provided to the satisfaction of the City Engineer, the Director of Planning and the Fire Department. The City would need to be uninvolved in obtaining or maintaining the private easements but would need to be satisfied that secondary access is entitled and would remain as long as needed. 2. Alternatively the secondary access could be specifically not approved and the condition(s) could include constructing sufficient portions of PoinseUin Lane. (Jack Henthorne has said he objects to this alternative.) DISCUSSION Oceanbluff projected traffic generation is 920 ADT. The only other property that would use the Oceanbluff internal Street "G" is the Roesch site, APN 215-070-15. Any possible project on the Roesch property is estimated to generate at the very most about 500 ADT. If Poinsettia Lane is not constructed by the time Roesch develops then there could be a total of 1,420 ADT on Street "G" near Blackrail Court and this seems an unlikely event to me. The maximum ADT of a local street is 1,200. About half of the 920 Oceanbluff ADT would not use the westerly portions of Street "G". This condition of Street "G" serving sightly beyond the local street capacity would not be permanent and would exist until another street from Roesch is connected to and Poinsettia Lane is constructed. Therefore to require Oceanbluff to redesign their internal Street "G" to be a collector or to the project based on what might happen on the Roesch site seems an unreasonable burden to put on Oceanbluff. The timing and exactly what might happen the Roesch site is unknown. Tuesday, 2-22-94,1 found a roll of plans and a letter from Jack Henthorne on my desk. There was no date stamp and no list of things submitted. I stamped it in today, 2-22-94 and had the project entered into the tracking system. Later I accessed a telephone message from Raenette Abbey that the roll and letter had been left with her on Friday, 2-18-94. Rather than send the package back and say it was improperly submitted, I let the date of entry stand.