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AGENDA REPORT
TO: Honorable City Council
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CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA
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FROM: Barry K. Hogan, Community Development Direct
Prepared By: Joseph R. Vacca, Principal Plann
DATE: February 1, 2006 (CC Meeting of 02/15/06)
SUBJECT: Consider Approval of the Off -Site Wall to be Constructed by Pardee
Homes Along the West Side of Spring Road from Los Angeles
Avenue North to the Last Residential Unit South of the Union Pacific
Railroad Tracks
BACKGROUND
The Development Agreement between the City and Agoura Fountainwood for the
Moorpark Highlands Specific Plan project (now Pardee Homes), Tentative Tract Map
No. 5045, and Residential Planned Development Permit Nos. 2002 -03, -04, and -05 all
require the developer of this Specific Plan project to remove the existing block walls and
fences on the west side of Spring Road between the railroad tracks and Los Angeles
Avenue, and construct in their place a new decorative block wall between six (6) feet
and eight (8) feet high. Staff has been working with Pardee Homes on the design of this
wall, which requires City Council approval.
DISCUSSION
On January 24, 2006, Pardee Homes submitted a conceptual wall plan for City Council
review to obtain authorization to proceed with plan check and construction of the off -site
Spring Road wall. The proposal is to construct this wall with the following specifications:
The wall is to be six feet (6') high along Spring Road and eight feet (8') high as
visible from the rear yards of the private properties that back up to Spring Road.
■ The wall is to be built with tan (doeskin color spec.) slump stone block with a
darker tan (fawn color spec.) cap or top block to match the approved wall
materials that have been constructed on -site at Pardee's Moorpark Highlands
project.
Decorative battered pilasters that will be faced with yellowish -tan (La Plata -
Bluffstone color spec.) El Dorado stone veneer, to be located at the property line
corners and then spaced at thirty feet (30') on center.
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Honorable City Council
February 15, 2006
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• Landscaping includes Crape Myrtle trees, Daylilies and Boston Ivy. The
landscaping will be planted along the face of the wall in a two foot (2') deep
planter. Half of a decorative tree grate (to be heel proof and A.D.A. compliant)
will also be used to accommodate the tree planting. There is no ability to have a
landscaped parkway at the curb face because there is an existing underground
box storm drain right below the sidewalk.
• The trees are proposed to be spaced at thirty feet (30') on center. This planting
arrangement matches the tree species and spacing of the landscaping already in
place along the east side of Spring Road in front of the Police Station.
■ The spacing of the decorative pilasters and trees will be arranged so that at
every fifteen feet there will be either a pilaster or a tree. Since the landscape
area is limited and the tree species mature slowly, this unique spacing will help to
break up the linear wall and provide greater interest along Spring Road's western
facing streetscape.
Pardee Homes is required to cover the costs for plan preparation, staff review,
permitting, construction and inspection of the off -site wall, landscaping and irrigation; as
well as for acquiring the right of entry of the independent property owners to the west of
Spring Road. After approval of the conceptual plan by the Council, city staff will approve
the final design plan and issue the required permits.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council approve the conceptual plan for the off -site wall
and related improvements.
Attachments:
• Conceptual Off -site Wall Plans along the west side of Spring Road
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