City Council
MEETING DATE: 4/26/2017
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Rio Vista Village Specific Plan Amendment No. 97-55C
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FROM:
Pat Milos, Community Development Director
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff and Planning Commission recommend the City Council adopt a Resolution approving a Mitigated Negative Declaration and adopt an Ordinance to amend the Rio Vista Village Specific Plan (97-55C) text to add Section 5.8: General Residential Site Development Standards for R-2 Cluster Single-Family Development and to add references to other sections of the Rio Vista Specific Plan text referring to the development standards of Section 5.8.
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BACKGROUND:
"Verano" at Rio Vista Village is a residential development guided by the Rio Vista Village Specific Plan (Specific Plan) originally approved in 1997. The Specific Plan sets forth land use requirements, development standards, design guidelines, and implementation plans to guide development within the Specific Plan area. Portions of the Verano development have been constructed since adoption of the Specific Plan.
On October 26, 2016 the City Council approved Specific Plan Amendment 97-55B to amend the text of the MF-4 Zone of the Rio Vista Village Specific Plan, approved General Plan Amendment No. 16-003 to amend the General Plan land use designations for Planning Area 1.1 and 2.2 of the Rio Vista Village Specific Plan and approved Change of Zone No. 16-003 to change the zone in Planning Area 2.2 from R-6 to R-2. The overall number of units of 1,362 allowed in the Specific Plan did not change.
Pursuant to the above actions, the Applicant filed an application for Tentative Tract Map 37124 (TTM 37124) on May 25, 2016. The design of TTM 37124 was reviewed by Staff and found that while the Specific Plan allowed 'Cluster Lots' on minimum 2,000 square feet lots at a density of up to 15 units per acre, it did not contain any development standards to facilitate the design. A new Section 5.8 was added to the Specific Plan...
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