HomeMy WebLinkAboutHDP 01-11; Rancho Santa Fe Road Widening; Hillside Development Permit (HDP)November 30, 2001
Carrie Loya-Smalley
City of Carlsbad Public Works Department
1635 Faraday Avenue
Carlsbad, CA 92008
SUBJECT: HDP 01-1 1 - RANCHO SANTA FE ROAD WIDENING
The City has completed a review of the application for a Hillside Development Permit for
grading for the Rancho Santa Fe North Realignment and Widening Project. Rancho Santa
Fe Road North is shown on the City of Carlsbad General Plan Circulation Element as a
Prime Arterial roadway. The project extends from La Costa Avenue northerly to Melrose
Drive a distance of approximately 2.25 miles. The project will grade the full road right-of-
way of 126 feet and construct four of the ultimate 6 travel lanes. The adjacent
landowners will construct the remaining two travel lanes, parkway and median
improvements as their property develops.
It is the Planning Director's determination that the project is consistent with the City's
Hillside Development Ordinance, Chapter 21.95 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code and
therefore approves this request based on the following:
Findings:
1. Undevelopable areas of the project, pursuant to Section 21.53.230(b) of the
Carlsbad Municipal Code, have been properly identified on the constraints map.
2. The project complies with the purpose and intent provisions of Section 21.95.01 0
of the Carlsbad Municipal Code in that proposed grading has been designed to relate
to the slope of the land, the quantity of grading has been minimized and is 7,687
cubic yards per acre which is within the acceptable range listed in the Hillside
Development Regulations, and a number .of the proposed slopes will be an interim
condition that will be modified when the adjacent properties are developed resulting
in a lowering of the slope height in several locations.
3. The project complies with Section 21.95.1 20 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code, and
Section 21.95.140 if a modification to the development and design standards is
approved in that hillside areas where a circulation element roadway must be located
provided the proposed alignment is environmentally preferred and comply with all
other city standards are excluded from the hillside development and design
standards of Section 21.95.120. Rancho Santa Fe Road is designated as a prime
arterial in the circulation element of the general plan and the proposed alignment
has been determined to be environmentally preferred in EIR 91-01 for the Rancho
Santa Fe Road Realignment and Mass Grading Project certified by the City Council
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on June 2, 1992 and the Addendum dated March 2000. The project design results
in grading quantities in the acceptable range. Were the exclusion provisions of
Section 21.95.1 30 of the Hillside Development Regulations not applicable to the
project proposed slopes which are not contour graded in addition to slopes over the
maximum slope height of forty feet also qualify for a modification to the
development and design standards pursuant to Section 21.95.140 (1 1 in that the
proposed design will result in significantly more undisturbed area than requiring
additional contour grading adjacent to Habitat Conservation Plan Open Space areas
as this would extend slope heights and impact the preserve area and the existing
native habitat.
4. The project design substantially conforms to the hillside development guidelines
manual in that contour grading will occur where it will not create additional
environmental impacts, runoff control will be accomplished as required by the
manual through the construction of onsite catchment basins and energy dissipators,
and landscaping will be installed to reduce erosion potential. The remaining design
guidelines illustrated in the manual are directed at the construction and placement
of structures, which are not included in this project.
5. The Planning Director has determined that:
a. EIR 91-1 was certified on June 2"d, 1992 in connection with the Rancho
Santa Fe Road Realignment and Mass Grading project. An Addendum to the
Final EIR for the project was prepared and is dated March 2000. The Hillside
Development Permit, HDP 01 -1 1 approves the proposed grading design as
being in conformance with the Hillside Development Ordinance and the
environmental impacts of the proposed project were analyzed in EIR, 91-1
and the March 2000 Addendum:
b. The project has no new significant environmental effect not analyzed as
significant in the prior EIR 91-1 or the March 2000 Addendum;
C. None of the circumstances requiring a Subsequent EIR or a Supplemental EIR
under CEQA Guidelines Sections 15 162 or 15 163 exist.
Conditions:
1. Approval is granted for HDP 01-1 1, as shown on Exhibit(s) "A" through "W", dated
November 30, 2001, incorporated by reference and on file in the Planning
Department. Development shall occur substantially as shown on the approved
exhibit(s). Any proposed grading and/or development substantially different from
this approval as determined by the Planning Director, shall require an amendment to
this Hillside Development Permit.
2. The Developer shall implement, or cause the implementation of, the Rancho Santa
Fe Road Realignment and Mass Grading Project Final Environmental Impact Report
Project Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program as listed in City Council
Resolution No. 92-1 52.
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3. The paved section of Melrose Drive west of Rancho Santa Fe that will be closed as
a result of the new Melrose Drive/Rancho Santa Fe intersection configuration shall
be removed. The area shall be landscaped and irrigated in conformance with a
landscape and irrigation plan to be submitted to the Planning Director for approval
prior to the start of grading in phase 2 of the Rancho Santa Fe Road North project. ,
CITY OF CARLSBAD
Assisfant Planning Director
c: John Maashoff, Associate Engineer
Doug Helming, Helming Engineering
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