Title
Public hearing (continued from November 6, 2012) to:
a. Receive a status update from the Resource Management Agency-Planning regarding the proposed ordinances to eliminate the Minor and Standard Subdivision Committees; and
b. Direct staff to return on February 12, 2013 with proposed options for the processing of lot line adjustments and subdivision applications.
[REF100014 (Inland) and REF120004 (Coastal), Options for Application Processes with the Elimination of the Minor and Standard Subdivision Committees.]
Report
PROJECT INFORMATION:
Planning File Numbers: REF100014 (Inland) and REF120004 (Coastal)
Applicant: County of Monterey, RMA-Planning
Project Location: County-wide
CEQA Action: Categorically Exempt per Section 15306 (Information Collection)
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors receive a status update from the Resource Management Agency-Planning (RMA-Planning) regarding the proposed ordinances to eliminate the Minor and Standard Subdivision Committees and direct staff to return on February 12, 2013 with proposed options for the processing of lot line adjustments and subdivision applications.
A public hearing scheduled for February 12, 2013 would allow staff additional time to evaluate each processing option, including the financial implications for each option and prepare a staff report.
SUMMARY:
A public hearing to consider adoption of ordinances was scheduled for November 6, 2012. On November 6, the Board of Supervisors continued the public hearing to January 29, 2013. Staff is now proposing that instead of a public hearing to consider the adoption of ordinances, staff will return to the Board of Supervisors on February 12, 2013 to present options to the Board and receive direction on the selected option to enable staff to make such revisions as may be needed to the proposed ordinances to reflect Board's direction. Staff would then return to the Board at a newly noticed public hearing on a future date to consider adoption of the revised draft ordinances.
At the February 12, 2013 Board hearing, staff will present the options as presented to the Planning Commission for consideration. Additionally, in order to assist the Board in providing direction on the options presented, a financial and scheduling analysis for each option will be presented.
FINANCING:
Funding for staff time associated with this project is included in the FY12-13 Adopted Budget for RMA-Planning.
Prepared by: Nadia Amador, Associate Planner ext. 5114
Approved by: Mike Novo, Director, RMA-Planning, ext. 5192
Benny J. Young, Resource Management Agency Director
This report was reviewed by Jacqueline R. Onciano, Planning Services Manager, Long Range Planning Team.
cc: Front Counter Copy; Monterey County Planning Commission; Public Works
Department; Parks Department; Environmental Health Bureau; Water Resources Agency;
Dawn Mathes, Agricultural Commissioner; Virginia Jameson, Supervisor Parker's
Office; Chris Lopez, Supervisor Salinas' Office; Henry Gowin, Supervisor Calcagno's
Office; Kathleen Lee, Supervisor Potter's Office; California Coastal Commission; David
C. Sweigert, Fenton & Keller; Michael Harrington, Brian Finegan Law Office; Jim
Bougart, Grower-Shipper Association of the Central Coast; Michael Cling, Law Offices
of Michael D. Cling; Dale Huss, Ocean Mist Farms; Norm Groot, Monterey County Farm
Bureau; Nancy Isakson, Salinas Valley Water Coalition; Ed Mitchell, Prunedale
Neighbors Group; Dale Ellis, Anthony Lombardo and Associates; Joel Panzer, Maureen
Wruck Planning Consultants, LLC; Michael Caplin; Pamela Silkwood, Horan
Lloyd; Butch Kronlund, Coast Property Owners Association; Big Sur Multi-Agency
Advisory Council c/o Kathleen Lee; Friends, Artists and Neighbors of Elkhorn Slough
(FANS); Prunedale Preservation Alliance c/o Jan Mitchell; Highway 68 Coalition c/o
Mike Weaver; Carmel Residents Association; Carmel Valley Association; Save Our
Carmel Neighborhoods Coalition; League of Women Voters of the Monterey Peninsula;
Sierra Club, Ventana Chapter; Marjorie Kay; Beverly Bean; Janet Brennan; Julie Engell;
California Native Plant Society, Monterey Bay Chapter; Gary Patton, Wittwer & Parkin,
LLP; All County Land Use Advisory Committees; Jacqueline R. Onciano, Planning
Services Manager; Nadia Amador, Project Planner; The Open Monterey Project c/o
Molly Erickson; LandWatch; Planning Files REF100014 (Inland) and REF120004
(Coastal).