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.