HomeMy WebLinkAboutLCPA 98-04; Thompson/Tabata; Local Coastal Program Amendment (LCPA) (2)May 3,2002
Keri Akers
California Coastal Commission
7575 Metropolitan Av, Suite 103
San Diego CA 92108-4402
SUBJECT: LCPA #I -2002 (THOMPSONTTABATA)
Dear Keri:
This package is in response to the Coastal Commission letter, dated March 11, 2002
(copy attached), requesting additional information for the first Carlsbad LCPA
application for 2002. The information in the package only deals with the
Thompson/Tabata portion of the LCPA - a request for a change in the zoning from
Limited Control to One Family Residential and Residential Density Multiple in order to
maintain consistency between the City’s General Plan, the Zoning Ordinance and the
City’s Local Coastal Program.
The first item in the March 11 , 2002 letter applies only to the Planned Development
Ordinance, therefore no additional materials are provided here. The second item
requests speaker slips and comment letters for all components. The Thompsonflabata
project was heard at three public hearings (two Planning Commission hearings and one
City Council hearing). Since the item was scheduled as a public hearing item, speakers
were not required to fill out speaker request forms. Therefore, there are no speaker
request forms to provide. Each person testifying at the hearing is required to state his
or her name and address for the record. This information is contained in the minutes
preceding each speaker’s comments. The comment letters that staff received for the
project were in association with the environmental review. The letters, and staffs
responses, were included in the original submittal of this LCPA. Please let me know if
those materials were not found in the original packet and I can resend them.
The third group of items requested was a vegetation survey and slope analysis for the
project. In response to this request, a copy of the project biological survey (by Dudek
and Associates) and the project constraints map (by RBF Consulting) are enclosed.
The fourth item requested was an analysis of consistency with the habitat core and
linkage areas identified in the Carlsbad Habitat Management Plan (HMP). Enclosed are
excerpts from the HMP discussing the planning standards for the Zone 20 Local
Facilities Management Plan (LFMP), a map showing the location of hardline
conservation areas and standards open space areas, and a map showing the habitat
linkages.
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As discussed in the HMP text regarding the Zone 20 LFMP, a large portion of Zone 20
has been in agriculture. With the exception of a 1.8 acre strip of coastal sage scrub
along the eastern project boundary, the ThompsonlTabata site has been completely
disturbed by agricultural operations. As a result of those operations, a water detention
basin was created to capture and recycle irrigation runoff. This basin has not been
maintained for several years and has become a disturbed southern willow scrub area.
The project‘s environmental review and approving resolutions were conditioned to
mitigate the removal of this disturbed area on-site at a ratio of 2:l. The I .8 acre coastal
sage scrub area is contiguous to a larger stand of open space within the Aviara Master
Plan and is conditioned to be preserved in an open space easement with no
encroachment from development.
The HMP conservation area map (copy enclosed) shows that no hardline conservation
areas or standards open space areas exist within the ThompsonlTabata site; in fact, the
map shows the entire site as “development area”. The HMP linkage map (copy
enclosed) shows that Linkage F is located along the eastern boundary of the project
site. Since the 1.8 acre strip of coastal sage scrub is contiguous with the larger habitat
within Aviara (which serves as Linkage F), the strip is being preserved to maintain the
existing habitat linkage. Given the above, the ThompsonlTabata development is
consistent with the habitat core and linkage areas identified in the City’s HMP.
Hopefully this correspondence satisfies the Coastal Commission staffs request for
additional information. Please feel free to contact me at (760) 6024623 if you have any
questions or require additional documentation. Thank you.
MICHAEL GRIM (-,*’
Senior Planner
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Enclosures
c: Gary Wayne
Don Rideout
Eric Munoz
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