HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning Commission Resolution 2014-18 07/22/2014RESOLUTION NO. 2014-18
CITY OF PETALUMA PLANNING COMMISSION
RECOMMENDING ADOPTION OF A MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION AND MITIGATION
MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM FOR
THE CORONA ROAD ANNEXATION & SUBDIVISION PROJECT
LOCATED AT 470 AND 498 CORONA ROAD
(496, 520, & 522 Corona Rd included in the annexation and 0 Riesling being the basin site)
APN 137-061-009 & 011
(137-061-007, 008, & 010 included in the annexation and 137-070-049 being the basin site)
Project File No: 09 -TSM -0344
WHEREAS, Corona Road Associates, L.C.C. submitted an application for Annexation, Pre -
Zoning, Landmark Designation, Tentative Subdivision Map for a 31 -lot subdivision, and
Authorization for a Detention Basin on City Lands for the Corona Road Annexation & Subdivision
Project located at 470 and 498 Corona Road (with 496, 520, 8. 522 Corona Rd included in the
annexation and 0 Riesling being the basin site); these requests are collectively referred to as "the
Project' or the "proposed Project"); and
WHEREAS, the Project is subject to the Petaluma General Plan 2025, adopted by the City
on May 19, 2008; and
WHEREAS, in evaluating certain potential environmental effects of the Project, including
but not limited to effects of climate change, water supply, and traffic, the City relied on the
program EIR for the City of Petaluma General Plan 2025, certified on April 7, 2008 (General Plan
EIR) with the adoption of Resolution No. 2008-058 N.C.S., which is incorporated herein by
reference; and
WHEREAS, the General Plan EIR identified potentially significant environmental impacts
and related mitigation measures and the City also adopted a Statement of Overriding
Considerations for significant impacts that could not be avoided; and
WHEREAS, the City prepared an Initial Study for the proposed Project consistent with
CEQA Guidelines sections 15162 and 15163 and determined that a Mitigated Negative
Declaration (MND) was required in order to analyze the potential for new or additional
significant environmental impacts of the Project beyond those identified in the General Plan EIR,
and the MND and its supporting Initial Study and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program
are attached as Exhibit 1 and incorporated herein by reference; and
WHEREAS, on or before November 17, 2013, the City's Notice of Intent to Adopt a
Mitigated Negative Declaration based on the Initial Study, providing for a 30 -day public
comment period commencing November 17, 2013 and ending December 17, 2013 and a
Notice of Public Hearing for the Project to be held on January 28, 2014 before the City of
Petaluma Planning Commission, was published and mailed to all residents and property owners
within 500 feet of the Project as well as all persons having requested special notice of said
proceedings; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on January 28, 2014, at which
time all interested parties had the opportunity to be heard. The Commission considered the
Project, the MND, the supporting Initial Study, a staff report dated January 28, 2014 analyzing the
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MND and the Project, and received and considered all written and oral public comments on
environmental effects of the Project and continued the project to a date uncertain to allow the
applicant time to consider Planning Commission recommendations; and
WHEREAS, on or before July 10, 2014, notice that the continued hearing has been
scheduled for July 22, 2014 before the City of Petaluma Planning Commission, was published
and mailed to all residents and property owners within 500 feet of the Project as well as all
persons having requested special notice of said proceedings; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the analysis in the Initial Study/MND, the Project does not make a
considerable contribution to the significant and unavoidable cumulative traffic and/or noise
impacts identified in the General Plan 2025 EIR because of its small size; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to further analysis in the Initial Study/MND, including evaluation using
the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) recently adopted CEQA Guidelines
and 2010 Clean Air Plan, the Project does not make a considerable contribution to a significant
cumulative air quality or greenhouse gas emissions impacts found to be significant and
unavoidable in the General Plan 2025 EIR, because of the Project's small size and lack of
significant stationary sources of emissions; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on July 22, 2014, at which time
all interested parties had the opportunity to be heard and the Commission considered the
Project, the MND and supporting Initial Study, staff reports dated January 28 and July 8, 2014
analyzing the MND and the Project, a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, and
received and considered all written and oral public comments on environmental effects of the
Project; and
WHEREAS, the MND reflects the City's independent judgment and analysis of the
potential for environmental impacts from the Project; and
WHEREAS, the MND including its supporting Initial Study, and related project and
environmental documents, including the General Plan 2025 EIR and all documents incorporated
herein by reference, are available for review in the City Planning Division at Petaluma City Hall,
during normal business hours and the custodian of the documents and other materials which
constitute the record of proceedings for the proposed project, File No. 09 -TSM -0344, is the City of
Petaluma Planning Division, 1 1 English St. Petaluma, CA 94952, Attention: Tiffany Robbe.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the foregoing recitals are true and correct and
incorporated herein by reference.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the Planning Commission recommends adoption of the
Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for the
Corona Road Annexation and Subdivision project, Exhibit 1, based on the following.
The Initial Study for the Project identified potentially significant impacts, but revisions in
the project plans agreed to by the applicant before the proposed Mitigated Negative
Declaration and supporting Initial Study were released for public review would avoid
1, the impacts to a point where clearly no significant effects would occur from
approval and implementation of the Project.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Planning Commission recommends the following
modifications to proposed mitigation in the Initial Study and associated Mitigation Monitoring
and Reporting Program:
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1. Mitigation Measure CUL -2 should be revised to require that all non -wood windows be
replaced with wood -sashed double -hung single -light windows dor awning, fixed, etc.
should an original hole size direct such).
2. Mitigation Measure AQ -2(3) should be revised to specify that truck trips driving
through residential neighborhoods shall be limited to school hours, avoiding drop off
and pick up times, and no weekend/holiday haul trips shall be permitted.
3. Mitigation Measure HYDRO -1 should be revised to correctly identify the preparation
of a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) not SWMP.
ADOPTED this 22nd day of July, 2014, by the following vote:
Commission Member I Aye I No
Absent I Abstain
Benedetti- Petnic I X
Lin X
Gomez X
Marzo I I
X
Councilmember Miller I X
Vice Chair Pierre X
Chair Wolpert I X
G c' _cam u'�,�--
Bill Wolpert, Chair
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
mm' Sion Secretary Eric W. Donly, City Attorney
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