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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAGENDA REPORT 2003 0115 CC REG ITEM 09EEM q.�. MOORPARK CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT TO: Honorable City Council FROM: Barry K. Hogan, Community Development Direep� Prepared by: David A. Bobardt, Planning Ma DATE: January 2, 2003 (CC Meeting of 1/15/03) SUBJECT: Consider the Shea Homes Proposal for Revision to TTM No. 5133 and RPD No. 1998 -01, the Seventy -nine (79) Home Project Located on the South Side of Los Angeles Avenue, Approximately 500 -feet East of Moorpark Avenue. BACKGROUND On December 18, 2002, the Affordable Housing /Community Development Committee (Mayor Hunter and Councilmember Mikos) reviewed a recommendation by staff to proceed with a redesign for Residential Planned Development No. 1998 -01 and Tentative Tract No. 5133 (staff report attached). These approved permits entitle Shea Homes to construct seventy -nine (79) small lot single family homes on the south side of Los Angeles Avenue, approximately 500 feet east of Moorpark Avenue. The original design does not provide for driveway parking and proposed on- street parking is extremely limited. The redesign proposed for the project would pair the homes as duplexes, provide each home with an 18 -foot driveway pad, provide parking on one side of the private streets and align the project access road at Los Angeles Avenue with Millard Avenue to create a four -way signalized intersection. This redesign would resolve a potential parking problem, help alleviate traffic congestion and give the future and existing residents in the area another means of safe ingress and egress east and west onto Los Angeles Avenue. This new design would also be proposed for an adjacent property where Shea Homes will be seeking entitlements for approximately OGG02 Honorable City Council January 15, 2003 Page 2 eighty -five (85) additional homes from the City. Staff will be working with Shea Homes on a priority processing schedule for the General Plan Amendment, Zone Change and Residential Planned Development applications for this later project. The Affordable Housing/ Community Development Committee discussed the proposal and recommended approval of the staff recommendation. The opportunity also exists with this revised design to cul -de -sac Fremont Street at Los Angeles Avenue and provide access to the existing homes via Majestic Court. STAFF RECOMMNDATION Direct staff to work with Shea Homes on the redesign and priority processing of the development applications for the seventy -nine (79) lot project. Attachments: 1. Location Map 2. Report to the Affordable Housing /Community Development Committee (Meeting of 12/18/2002) S: \Community Development \DEV PMTS \R P D \1998 -01 Shea \030115 cc.doc 0C''�'0OIZI, 8 N w E S JI I L NOT TO SCALE A SSOCIATEO [T RANSPORTATION [" NGINiGRC CC ATTACHMENT 1 PROJECT SITE LOCATION cGc�9 FIGURE( TO: FROM: DATE: MOORPARK CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT Affordable Housing /Community Development Committee Barry K. Hogan, Community December 13, 2002 (AH /CDC Development Directo Meeting of 12/18/02 SUBJECT: Consider the Shea Homes Proposal for Revision to the Seventy -nine (79) Home Project Located on the South Side of Los Angeles Avenue, Approximately 500 -feet East of Moorpark Avenue. BACKGROUND Approval of Residential Planned Development No. 1998 -01 and Tentative Tract No. 5133, entitled Shea Homes to construct seventy -nine (79) small lot, single family homes, on property located on the south side of Los Angeles Avenue, approximately 500 -feet east of Moorpark Avenue. Since that time, Shea Homes has proceeded to move forward with grading and building plans to construct the project. The project consists of seventy -nine (79) small lot, single family homes served by a single north /south street located along the western portion of the project intersecting with Los Angeles Avenue on the north and Majestic Avenue on the south. The approved homes are sited on the lots in such a manner that there is no driveway pad for parking. The private streets which are perpendicular to the north /south street are narrow and parking restricted. There is limited off - street parking provided. Shea Homes has entered into escrow to purchase the adjacent Coast Auto and Elks Lodge property and is taking over the submitted Pre - Application for the General Plan Amendment. Shea Homes had expressed the desire to continue the same housing product approved for the seventy -nine (79) lot project onto this property. There would be an estimated additional eighty -five (85) homes which will give Shea Homes and the City the opportunity to address long- standing issues in the area relative to Fremont Street, the Coptic Church and the RV Storage lot, and CC ATTACHMENT 2 0GG04'."J'0 Affordable Housing /Community Development Committee December 18, 2002 Page 2 improvements on Los Angeles Avenue. Staff has expressed concern to Shea Homes over the lack of on- street and off - street parking in the seventy -nine (79) lot project and indicated that any extension of the seventy -nine (79) lot project onto adjacent property would have to provide a minimum 18 -foot driveway pad and more on- street parking. In our discussions with Shea Homes, we also encouraged them to re -look at the seventy -nine (79) home project parking and street design in an effort to avoid, what staff believes, will be a parking problem. DISCUSSION Shea Homes has proposed to revise the Tentative Tract Map and the Residential Planned Development for the entitled seventy - nine (79) lot project so that each home will have an 18 -foot driveway pad, the north /south street will align at Los Angeles Avenue with Millard Avenue on the north side, which would create a four -way intersection. Shea Homes would agree to do this if the City would agree to give priority processing for the new Tentative Tract Map /Residential Planned Development for the seventy -nine (79) lot project, as well as, priority processing for the adjacent property which Shea Homes has in escrow. What Shea Homes would like to do by June 2003 is to: 1. Have approval of a new Tentative Tract Map and Residential Planned Development Permit for the seventy -nine (79) lot project; 2. Have engineering approval of a Grading Plan for the seventy -nine (79) lot project; 3. Have approval of General Plan Amendment, Zone Change, Tentative Tract Map and Residential Planned Development for the Coast Auto and Elks Lodge site. Staff feels that the Shea Homes request can be accommodated. The benefit to the City would be that a potential parking problem on the seventy -nine (79) lot project would be resolved, a new four -way signalized intersection with Millard Avenue would be created alleviating traffic congestion and giving the future and existing residents another means of safe ingress and egress east and west onto Los Angeles Avenue. 0®G031:1 S: \Community Development \DEV PMTS \R P D \1998 -01 Shea \021218 ahcdc.doc Affordable Housing /Community Development Committee December 18, 2002 Page 3 STAFF RECOMMNDATION Direct staff to work with Shea Homes on the redesign and priority processing of the development applications for the existing seventy -nine (79) lot project and the processing of the General Plan Amendment, Zone Change, Tentative Tract Map and Residential Planned Development Permit for the adjacent property. 0 0032 S: \Community Development \DEV PMTS \R P D \1998 -01 Shea \021218 ahcdc.doc