To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Vincent Smith, Community Development Director
Prepared By: Michael Allen, Senior Planner and Tiffany Carranza, City Clerk
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Harvest Village II
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommendation
Approve, pursuant to the previously adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Harvest Village Project, the second reading and final passage of an ordinance approving a Zoning Amendment to Ordinance O2016-4, (PD-35) Planned Development Overlay District modifying development standards for Harvest Village II at 804 Capitola Drive and direct staff to file a Notice of Determination.
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DISCUSSION:
This is the second reading and final adoption of an ordinance approving a Zoning Amendment to Ordinance O2016-4, (PD-35) Planned Development Overlay District modifying development standards for Harvest Village II at 804 Capitola Drive and direct staff to file a Notice of Determination.
The introduction and first reading of the ordinance was held at the Regular City Council meeting on November 19, 2024. If approved the Ordinance will become effective thirty days following adoption.
FINANCIAL IMPACTS:
No direct financial impacts to the General Fund have been identified.
CEQA:
City staff recommends that the City Council determine that the potential environmental effects of the Project fall within the scope of and were adequately analyzed by the Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program that was adopted by City Council on March 1, 2016, in conjunction with the approval of the previous Harvest Village Subdivision Map by Resolution R2016-23, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15162.
The revised Harvest Village II proposes the same number of units as the original Harvest Village with similar home sizes and utilizes a reduced vehicular access street design. The road ending in a hammerhead configuration surrounded by the homes is by far more environmentally superior than the previously approved loop road that would have surrounded the entire development site. Given the site’s sloped topography, the loop road would have required significantly more site grading, paving and retaining walls than the hammerhead road will require. Also, there have been no changes to the surrounding circumstances that would result in any new potentially significant environmental effects. Accordingly, the previously adopted MND has adequately identified that there will be no impacts associated with the revised Project, and that there have been no substantial changes which would require major revisions, no changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken, there is no new information of substantial importance, and no previously reviewed impact areas have substantially changed. Therefore, staff has determined that a subsequent environmental review document is not required and has prepared a Notice of Determination.
DOCUMENTS ATTACHED:
ATCH 1 - Ordinance
NOTIFICATION:
Notice that this application was received was provided by the City on December 11, 2023, and notice of the scheduled public hearing was provided on November 8, 2024, by US Postal Service to all property owners within a 500-foot radius of the subject property. Notice of the 1st reading public hearing was also published in the Napa Valley Register on November 9, 2024, and provided to people previously requesting notice on the matter at the same time notice was provided to the newspaper for publication. The Applicant was also provided a copy of this report and the associated attachments in advance of the public hearing on the project.