1.       ROLL CALL

2.       AGENDA AMENDMENTS

3.       COMMUNITY FORUM (Public Comments)

This agenda category is limited to 15 minutes to be allocated as determined by the Planning Commission Chair.  If you wish to address the hearing body, please complete a speaker's card and give it to the Secretary.  If your subject is not on the agenda, the Planning Commission Chair will recognize you at this time.

4.       CONSENT CALENDAR

Consent Calendar items are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion.  There will be no separate discussion on these items unless members of the Commission, staff or public request specific items to be removed for separate action.

4A.  Planning Commission Meeting Minutes of 7/3/12
4B.  Resolution Denying a Conditional Use Permit – 2520-22 De Koven Avenue

5.        PUBLIC HEARING:

5A.      PUBLIC HEARING – Vacant Lot on Carlmont Drive (adjacent to 1114 Village Drive)
To consider a revised condominium plan associated with a previously approved Tentative Map for the construction of ten condominiums (1 one-bedroom unit and 9 two-bedroom units) on a vacant lot on Carlmont Drive (adjacent to 1114 Village Drive). (Appl. No. 2010-0010)
APN: 045-022-250; Zoned: R-4 (Multi-Family Residential)
CEQA Status: Mitigated Negative Declaration
APPLICANT: Frank Gonsalves
OWNER: Belmont Lot, LLC
PROJECT PLANNER: Damon DiDonato, (650) 637-2908

5B.   PUBLIC HEARING – Monte Cresta Drive Hillside Road Improvement Plan, Initial Study and Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration Project Description.The applicant is proposing an approximately 104-foot-long, two-lane extension of Monte Cresta Drive from its existing terminus approximately 1,000 feet northwest of Barclay Way, below (west of) All View Way in the San Juan Hills area of the City of Belmont. The site is currently an unimproved roadway/pathway primarily used by local residents as an open-space recreational trail.  The roadway extension has been designed to comply with the design standards of the City’s Hillside Road Standards – San Juan Hills, as specified in Section 7-13 of the City Municipal Code, Items (e) 4 through 9, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act. The roadway would be a total of 38 feet in width, including two 10-foot wide travel lanes, two 5.5-foot-wide parking lanes, two 2-foot-wide curb and gutters, and one four-foot-wide sidewalk. A two-foot wide planter strip would be included on the east side of the new roadway.

The roadway extension would be supported/protected by retaining walls within the road right of way on both sides, which will require a separate approval of an Encroachment Permit from the Belmont City Council that is not contemplated at this time. The retaining wall below the road would range from one-to-four feet in height and the wall above the road would range from eight-to-nine feet in height. The project also would include access to three potential driveways, street lighting, as well as underground extensions of water, storm sewer, sanitary sewer, gas, and electric utility lines. Construction of the roadway would occur over a period of about three months. Plans of the proposed roadway extension are indicated on Figures 2 and 3 of the Draft Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration.

The roadway would provide access to three currently inaccessible residentially designated lots just west of the existing western terminus of Monte Cresta Drive (APN’s 043-243-340, 043-165-170 and 043-165-180. Should the Hillside Roadway Improvement plan be approved, subsequently two of those lots (west of the proposed new roadway) could then potentially be developed with small houses (limited to 900 sq, ft. each, including garages) while the lot northeast of the proposed extension could be potentially developed with an up-to 3,000 sq. ft. house.

This Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration and Hillside Roadway Improvement Plan are scheduled for review by the Belmont Planning Commission on August 8, 2012.

APPLICANT:  Damon Campbell
OWNER: City of Belmont
PROJECT PLANNER: Andrea Ouse, (650) 333-3973

Information on these applications may be obtained from the City of Belmont Planning Department, One Twin Pines Lane, Suite 110, Belmont, CA  94002.  Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. (650) 595-7417.  A staff report on these projects will be available on the Friday afternoon before the meeting.  All interested parties will be heard.  Comments may be submitted through the hearing date.

 ATTACHMENTS

1. 500-foot Radius Map

2. Project Location Map

3. Arborist Report (December 27, 2004), prepared by Walter Levison

4. Geotechnical Report (October 18, 2001), prepared by Earth Mechanics Consulting Engineers: 1800-foot through-road proposal

5. Geotechnical Consultation (October 22, 2001), prepared by Earth Mechanics Consulting Engineers: 1800-foot through-road proposal

6. Geotechnical Consultation (December 18, 2001), prepared by Michelucci & Associates, Inc.: 1800-foot through-road proposal

7. Geologic and Geotechnical Review (January 23, 2002), prepared by Cotton Shires & Associates: Peer review of 1800-foot through-road proposal

8. Geotechnical Consultation (September 18, 2002), prepared by Earth Mechanics Consulting Engineers: 1800-foot through-road proposal

9. Geotechnical Consultation (December 22, 2002), prepared by Earth Mechanics Consulting Engineers: Response to specific geotechnical data requests from CDD

10. Geotechnical Update Letter (August 16, 2004), prepared by Earth Mechanics Consulting Engineers: Confirms past reports and findings

11. Geotechnical Review (May 10, 2005), prepared by Cotton Shires & Associates

12. Road Improvement Plans (dated 9/26/03, 10/24/02) (Commission Only)

13. Monte Cresta Feasibility Study by LTI (dated 10/22/04)

14. December 20, 2005 Planning Commission Meeting Minutes 

15. Construction Estimate (January 8, 2004), prepared by Shade Construction & Engineering, Inc. (SCE)

16. Geotechnical Report (June 30, 2008), prepared by Romig Engineers, Inc.

17. Geotechnical Review (August 13, 2008), prepared by Cotton Shires & Associates

18. Planning Commission Environmental Review Study Session Minutes (July 21, 2009)

19. Revised Preliminary Budget –( May 2010)

20. Revised Initial Study and draft Mitigated Negative Declaration, including technical appendices, prepared by Grassetti Environmental Consulting – (December 2011)

21. Addendum to Monte Cresta Road Extension Project Revised Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration (March 2012) – Response to Public Comments

22. Resolution Recommending City Council Adoption of the Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration

ATTACHMENTS 1-10      ATTACHMENTS 11-19      ATTACHMENT 20       ATTACHMENT 21(1)     ATTACHMENT 21(2)      ATTACHMENT 22     

6.        REPORTS, STUDIES AND UPDATES:

6A.      North Road Right-of-Way
6B.      Caltrain Modernization Program/High Speed Rail
6C.       Ralston/US-101 Landscape Project

7.         CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012 – 7:30 PM

Liaison:                  Vice Chair       Parsons
Alternate Liaison:     Commissioner Frautschi

8.        ADJOURNMENT: 

To:  Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 7:00 PM for a Planning Commission Meeting at Belmont City  Hall.

Information on the applications to be considered at this meeting may be obtained from the City of Belmont Planning Division, One Twin Pines Lane, Suite # 110, CA, 94002, 650/595-7417.  This meeting will be televised and webstreamed.  In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact: 650-637-2999.  Notification in advance of the meeting will enable the city to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting.