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ITEM TITLE: Ordinance X095 Amending ection 15.04.010 and adding
Section 15.04.092 relating to mass grading on large projects
to Title 15 of the Chula Vista ISECOND READNG AND ADOPT ION
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SUBMITTED BY: Director of Planning (4/5ths ate: Y s No )
Director of Public Works/City Engineer/4,.
REVIEWED BY: City Manage
By letter dated December 5, 1984, from Mr. Robert L. Santos, to Mr. John P.
Lippitt, City Engineer, EastLake Development Company is requesting the ability
to pull a mass grading permit for approximately 250 acres of EastLake I.
Further, the request is to have the permit issued in advance of tentative map
approval by the City Council . The City Attorney has advised that this
requires an ordinance change; said ordinance would have future applicability
and apply city-wide.
RECOMMENDATION: That Council adopt the ordinance and place it on its first
reading.
BOARDS/COMMISSIONS RECOMMENDATION: Not applicable
DISCUSSION:
EastLake is requesting mass grading approval in order to meet certain time
goals of opening the project in mid-1985. From the developer's perspective,
there are definite merits to be able to sculpture land masses within a project
prior to tentative map approval. In some cases, it may not be feasible to
even have a tentative map for certain areas; as an example, certain downstream
properties may need to be contoured (beyond the limits of a map) for drainage
or retention basin purposes.
Consideration of such a permit issuance must be conditioned on the following:
1. Extraordinary engineering safeguards such as bonding, erosion and sediment
control , landscaping and so on.
2. A separate Council agreement.
3. The legal risks would be the applicant's as to protecting downstream
properties in a satisfactory manner as well as changing grades as dictated
by any subsequent discretionary actions.
4. Planning feels it is mandatory that such permission be considered only for
major projects and only after Council land use authorization has occurred
410 via a detailed SPA approval of a project. This is tentatively scheduled
for a January 9, 1984, Planning Commission Public Hearing and January 22,
1984, City Council Public Hearing.
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Public health, safety and welfare criteria would need to be satisfied in all
instances. These would include assurances that no health hazards are created
as a result of stagnant water collection; that the character and volume of the
water being discharged are not changed in any significant way from the
previously existing conditions; that the drainage carried within the project
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is done so as to not endanger the land or other properties; that
compaction effort imposed prevents later settlement and that environmental
review and approval has occurred.
In conclusion, the decision concerning whether or not is this rordinance should
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adapted is more than simply a technical one but predicated
matters as to how and to what extent large scale development might be
accommodated in a timely fashion. If the City wishes to continue to encourage
major land developments, the communitysasi well therewith must balanced with
the economic benefits
FISCAL IMPACT: None.
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