 good morning. Good morning Andy. How's it going? Going fine. Can you hear me okay? I want to make sure the sound is okay because I've got Lonnie sitting behind me so I'm not using headphones. Yeah I've got a lot of background sound coming through. Yeah that's because Mike and Adam are being loud. Oh it should be. It should be jumping up and down on the Herzog fire. Mike promised me he's going to use his headphones for the actual meeting. Pardon? Okay I'm going to mute for now. Okay thank you. Me too. Mike check one too. Just test. We did. Right good morning. My name is Andy Gustafson and I am the zoning administrator today and I'd like to call to order the December 2nd 2021 zoning administrator meeting. This meeting will be conducted like any other public meeting except that we are doing so remote in an effort to help control the spread of COVID and consistent with state noticing laws and also county public health order. This meeting is streamlined or excuse me live streamed thank you and HTTPS www.youtube.com.com. It will be recorded so if any of you wish to review the proceedings of today's meeting you can do so at that location. Finally before we get into the agenda any matter that is acted on today meaning is either approved denied or approved of conditions may be appealed. We do have a 10 business day appeal period which if there are weekends and holidays it falls on the next available date after the 10th business day and in this case that will be December 13 at the end of the day of the business day and if you do wish to appeal you'll need to contact the project planner. All right so the next item on the agenda is a public comment. This is an opportunity for any member participating who wishes to comment on a matter that's within the zoning administrator's jurisdiction but is not on the agenda today. You have an opportunity to do so if you wish to comment please raise your hand and you can do that either by pressing the hand icon or you're joining us by telephone the star nine keys on your phone and I'm going to try to see if we have any attendees who wish to comment and I see none but another moment here. So Mark Rudy do you have something which is not on the agenda but in the zoning administrator's jurisdiction you'll be recognized if you have three minutes. All right so are we Mr. Rudy do you wish to comment or on another matter? Can you hear me now? Yes. Okay sorry I'm not used to using the phone like this. I don't watch the comment I just wanted to make it clear I was here for the meeting on my project. Thank you. Thank you. Okay excellent so we have two items on the agenda today. The first item is a hillside development permit application for seven nine four almost all of us road and the project planner is Adam Ross and Adam before you begin let me just review for people in attendance how these get discussed project planner will give a presentation the applicant for the applicants team will be given opportunity to comment or to add more information and then following that I'll open it up to a public who anybody in attendance who wishes to comment may do so so we'll follow that order so Adam he can give you your presentation that would be great thank you in your view one second let me just open up the presentation I'll get started and if you could just verify that you see the presentation for me I do thank you okay great thank you okay my name is Adam Ross I am the project planner for the hillside development permit file number hdp 21-011 location is seven nine four Los Alivos road in Santa Rosa you can see the image here on the first page so the project is again a minor hillside development permit to allow the construction of a new one-story 3,112 square foot single family residence with an attached 794 square foot three car garage and a 527 square foot covered porch on an undeveloped parcel in areas of 10 percent slope or greater at 794 Los Alivos road in Santa Rosa apn 181 010 073 so here's the project site and location uh Los Alivos road there was a previous minor a previous subdivision at this property where for I believe four single family residences to be built this is now the minor hillside for one of the single family residences there's access via a an access easement through the shared through the the front properties to get to this back location so here's the parcel location again so here's the entrance on from Los Alivos road and then you would circle right and get onto the property so the general plan is very low residential it allows 0.2 to two units per acre the zoning is r16 s r so single family residential scenic route uh the scenic route uh over a combining district uh is for Los Alivos road however this project uh complies with all of those requirements which are setbacks and those typically are for properties fronting Los Alivos road so it's it's not even though it's it's zoned within that overlay it does not have uh really any effect on on the proposal uh as it's on the project proposal um here's the site plan so again this is where you would come up I don't know if you could see the cursor so I apologize but you would come up on the bottom left here and you would from that entrance from Los Alivos and make a right into the into the driveway the uh the if you look if you're looking left um you say that would be north and then so if you're looking straight on at this image that is east um so Los Alivos would be to the west so it complies with all hillside development standard setback standards uh height from grade and uh it also complies with um a slope for entrance to the garage face which can be no more than five percent grade and then here's the slope analysis for the site all of the orange is between 10 and 24.99 slope uh this red I believe it's a it's uh that's for historic drainage for the site but that is not touched as part of this project so again here's the the house on the site here the elevations for the site typically you know in the in the um in the hillside development permit or sorry hillside development findings and standards it asks that two-story structures or or homes kind of slope with the with the hill so that it does not you know create this like box just sticking outside on the hill in this case well you know you could see on the bottom left image it does do that it does hold one kind of livable kind of livable floor plan but because it's one story it still meets the intent of those findings for a hillside permit um as you can see here here's the back and so just a few steps down to the backyard uh similar here you can see that as well it does curve with the with the hill and stays the same you know relatively the same the highest peak uh gavel roof is is in the center but then it does create this uh this um this slope uh on the on the rooftop that kind of then does comply with that that step down uh approach and so here's a landscape plan there are trees that um are to be removed and others to be planted and some uh some to be preserved on the site that will all of those um specifics will be identified in the in the grading permits for the project and so it would be subject to the tree uh mitigate the tree mitigation plan that the city has worked in the tree ordinance and uh I also want to point out that the project does comply with uh oops a sequel finding which was not included on the resolution that was a that was um just a uh an honest mistake but the uh the project as proposed the proposed project has been reviewed in compliance with the california environmental quality act sequa and qualifies for a class three exemption under section 15303 for construction of one single family dwelling in a residential zone uh I believe we have to introduce that into the record but we can figure that out right after this but with that the planning and economic development department recommends that the zoning administrator by resolution approve a minor hillside development permit to allow construction of a new one-story 3,112 square foot single family residence with an attached 794 square foot three car garage and a 527 square foot covered porch on an undeveloped parcel in areas of 10 percent slope or greater located at 794 Los Alejos Road Santa Rosa APN 181-010-073 and again my name is Adam Ross this is my contact information should anyone have any follow-up questions about the project and that concludes my presentation the applicant did not include a presentation but I can reference the my presentation should they need it thank you Adam and uh and also thank you for bringing up the sequel finding that you read through we'll add that to the record at the end when we I take action on this particular permit the applicant now has opportunity to comment I see a raise can for telephone number one three three two hearing secretary if you can recognize that caller yeah the caller is last four is one three three two I'm going to send a prompt and you should be able to unmute your phone when you answer that prompt go ahead try it looks like you're this is Matt Taylor with Ferrell Faber and associates representing the project and I just wanted to thank Adam for his thorough presentation and let you know that I'm here and available to answer any questions if necessary thank you is there any other member of the project team or the applicant who wishes to comment now so please raise your hand or press star nine seeing none I'll now open up the matter for public input is there any member in attendance who wishes to comment so raise your hand or press star nine okay yeah I'm seeing none I'll close the public comment portion of this matter so now I get to deliberate Adam so the condition of approval excuse me the sequel finding that you read is basically a statement that the construction of a single family dwelling consistent with the zoning is eligible for our class three exemption under the California Better Environmental Quality Act so I will accept that as a modification to the resolution that you prepared for consideration I would like to also comment I do appreciate your addressing the issue of the building form and following the slope I think you raised important points about the how the roof elevation was treated on the building on this one-story structure that is a challenge I know many projects have to struggle with and I think the architectural design presented here does a good job of that so I appreciate the effort that was put into the design on that so with that I'm pleased to approve this resolution for hillside development permit subject to the additional finding that was read out by the project planner thank you very much thank you yes yeah I said no I said thank you okay all right okay let's go on to the next matter which is item 3.2 it too concerns a hillside development permit this one is that 3881 sky farm drive and the project planners mr. Mike Maloney Mike can you give us your presentation I can thank you mr. zoning administrator and good morning everybody um give my presentation up one moment and if you can please verify that you see my presentation on the screen yeah it's perfect great with that my name is Mike Maloney and this application is for a minor hillside development permit at 3881 sky farm drive and the permit is to allow construction of a new two-story 7589 square foot single family residence with an attached 1180 square foot three car garage on an undeveloped parcel in areas of 10 percent slope or greater at 3881 sky farm drive santa rosa assessor's parcel number 173 760033 the site is located in northeast santa rosa it's in the sky farm area on sky farm drive the subject site is a planned development zone pd 72-001 f it's in the resilient city combining district however please note that this is a new development on a previously vacant lot and is not a result of the tub's fire the base zoning is r40 and the proposal is within the prescribed setbacks the site has a general plan land use designation of very low residential and the proposed project has been reviewed in compliance with the california environmental quality x otherwise known as sequa and qualifies for a class 3 extension under section 15303 for construction of one single family dwelling in a residential zone and so this is the site plan and just for orientation purposes to the right of the screen is sky farm drive where the driveway will be um these are the original plans submitted by the applicant and i just wanted to take a second to thank the applicant for working with the city and myself to significantly redesign and eliminate a portion of the parking area to further reduce large areas of flat pads here is the updated version as you can see and again mark groody is here he will be able to present and take questions after but i did want to just show what it was and what the current design is moving on to slide number six six and seven slides show the various elevations this one's from the south and from the north and as you can see you can please note the retaining wall on this side and the general slope of the property slide seven shows the east and the west we don't have any architectural renderings but i think these elevations effectively demonstrate that the proposed single family home reflects originality yet remains compatible with the surrounding neighborhood and this slide shows the intended interior floor plans for both the first and second floors slide nine represents a slope analysis and shows the topography of the site though this is approximate you can see the majority of the residents is located outside of the major sloped areas which i'll show you right here as you can see green being 10 to 25 percent it's pretty much on the exterior portion of the lot along the perimeter of that side this is the same image zoomed in again with sky farm drive oriented to the right just to give a better demonstration of where the primary slope of the lot is slide 11 is an aerial footage which further demonstrates the slope and gives a sense of the surrounding area it was a little difficult to get some photographs of the area because it's such a it's a large plot and i just wanted to demonstrate what it basically looks like what it looks like in the surrounding neighborhood as you can see as it pans around in a circle there's a few houses that have recently been developed that were affected by the tubs this is a bird's eye view and the last video that's about to show up is a path heading north towards the steepest slope that i just demonstrated in the slide prior as you can see by the survey is topographic map the site does not have significant topography challenges compared to other neighboring sites with more drastic slopes and slide three shows a preliminary grading plan slide 14 this diagram shows the grading levels and slide 15 i added this slide again because you know who doesn't love drone footage but primarily to show a rudimentary rendering of what the home will look like to the rear of the site so this is where the driveway would be be going right up into here kind of skipped a little bit but you see basically this is what as you go up the driveway the home will be towards near the back right about there with that the planning and economic development department recommends that the zoning administrator by resolution approve the minor hillside development permit to allow construction of a new two-story 7589 singles family residence with an attached 1180 square foot three car garage on the previously undeveloped parcel in areas of 10 slope or greater at 381 sky farm drive santa rosa assessor's partial number 173760 033 again my name is mike and for any of those in attendance that would like to contact me later you can do so at m Maloney at srcity.org or by phone at 707-543-3190 thank you mr guff stefan for your time and consideration and that concludes my presentation well thank you for that great presentation mr maloney i have no question i think your exhibits demonstrated the proposed design and the site issues so if the applicant or the applicant's team wishes to comment at this point just you can do so now please raise your hand using the icon and you'll be recognized we'll give another moment here oh we have okay we recognize mark hello can you hear me now yes thank you thank you and approaching 70 years old as technology is daunting i wish to just state that i in the package was a narrative that explained why the house was so big and that is due to the fact that folks from india sometimes take additional family members that they have to care for in our case one of the family members is confined to a wheelchair and so his wife and child reside in the house also what i've done with the design and i really don't have anything to show you unless you can see the screens on my computers with a photograph or a you know a camera but i tried to minimize the impact on the neighbors when i do projects in tiburon they have a thing called ceremonial views and they don't want people's houses to interrupt ceremonial views in our case all of the views of the neighbors across the street face north the other way down into the the other valley and then there's really only one neighboring house being built next door on the downhill side uh the other direction the house the property's never been developed and i don't know that it will be on the uphill side uh if you do travel up the street on google or in person you'll notice there's several trees on the corner of flint ridge that will obscure the house and we plan to do more trees so that passersby as well as that neighbor i mentioned won't really see much of the house the house was done in a layered manner so that on the downhill side it's a one story and then the second story is set back a little bit further another thing that'll happen for people is this house will obscure the the high tension lines from pg and e uh the source of much of our angst in this in your county uh will be obscured from view there's nothing for miles on the south end downhill you'd have to be on the free way to be able to see the house at all so i really appreciate the fact that the staff and the the administration's been really plagued by the covid shutdowns you know this project goes back to beginning and being submitted uh within a week of the whole shutdown when the department had to close and so it's been a long haul and my owner is anxious to stop spending money without making much progress so hopefully you'll find in our favor and uh we'd be happy to make other minor adjustments uh in in terms of the uh property development and of course come up with all the necessary uh professional drawings for landscape and any of the other requirements so with that i'll say thank you and and await your response thank you very much and um fiscrity i think you your your additional information i hopefully i pronounced your name correctly um it's very helpful and further i really do um commend the responsiveness that you exhibited working with staff and making modifications to the site uh impervious area and and making that entrance to the property less a parking lot more of a more of a gracious and proportionately laid out parking area um the landscaping that you propose i think is it doesn't we'll do a great job of helping to um to screen the public view from sky farm and also you're a joining neighbor i have one question is this a corner lot is there another street that um runs would it be on the north side of the property or does it join a um uh undeveloped lot or okay thank you for that exhibit yeah okay that answers my question all right great um so i don't have any other um i just had those immediate comments i wanted to share with you um i don't have any questions so what i'd like to do is open up this matter to the public in attendance that might wish to comment and if you do please raise your hand you'll be recognized all right we'll see none i'll close the public comment portion of this meeting this item um and and i can follow on what i said previously regarding the site design i think that did concern me the amount of previous area devoted to parking but i think the proposed plan uh mr ross i have a question in your resolution do you note the version date of this updated plan or excuse me mr maloney do you recognize or memorialize the um version date of this site plan or plan is the middle as being the the the plan that's being acted on today i think yandy we're reviewing it right now it appears that i do yeah just confirm that yeah with revisions dated received august 22nd 2020 perfect okay um yeah so i know uh so the other comment i would have is um to follow on the regarding landscaping and how i i believe we'll do an effective job of screening public views from from uh spec farm it will however be part of the very distant view from 101 and it is one of many homes on the sky farm ridge line i think the comment made by the project applicant or the architect is correct it it will not be significant it'll be so distant that the observer will potentially recognize it as a home but it won't really destroy or all terms substantially the landscape setting or the visual character of that ridge line so again i commend the group for coming to uh the current site plan layout um i do agree with all the findings made in the resolution and i will also note this uh project does need to add or the resolution does need to add the sequel finding it was stated correctly and the presentation i just think it needs to be added to the resolution and with that um it will uh it's my pleasure to approve this hillside development permit and uh with the modification to the findings to add the sequel exception so with that it's my pleasure to adjourn the December 2nd 2021 zonian administrator meeting thank you all for attending have a 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