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REGULAR MEETING OF
CITY OF BELMONT
PLANNING COMMISSION

TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2009 7:00 PM
ONE TWIN PINES LANE
SECOND FLOOR
BELMONT CITY HALL

AGENDA

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. Minutes of June 16, 2009

5. STUDY SESSION

5A. Monte Cresta Roadway Project – Environmental Review
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 8, 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 two-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 on both sides, which will require an Encroachment Permit from the City of Belmont. These walls would range from two to six feet in height. The project also would include access to three potential driveways, as well as underground extensions of water, storm sewer, sanitary sewer, gas, and electric utility lines. It also would include street lighting. The project would require cut and fill of 196 cubic yards of material, to be balanced on the site. Construction of the roadway would occur over a period of about three months.

The roadway would provide access to three currently inaccessible residentially designated lots just west of the western terminus of Monte Cresta Drive (APN’s 043-243-340, 043-165-170 and 043-165-180. Two of those lots (west of the proposed new roadway) could potentially be developed with small houses (limited to 900 to 1,200 sq, ft. each, including garages, unless a development transfer is granted by the Planning Commission and City Council) while the lot east of the proposed extension could be developed with an up-to 3,300 sq. ft. house.

6. PUBLIC HEARINGS:


6A. PUBLIC HEARING – 3405 Haskins Drive
The applicants/owners request Single Family Design Review approval to construct a 643 square foot addition to the existing 2,663 square foot single family residence for a total of 3,306 square feet that is below the zoning district permitted 3,500 square feet for the site. (Appl. No. 2009-0010)
APN: 043-222-010; Zoned: R-1B (Single Family Residential)
CEQA Status: Categorical Exemption per Section 15303
Applicant/Owner: Issa & Jessica Khouri
Planner: Rob Gill 650-598-4204


6B. PUBLIC HEARING – 1501 Folger Drive
To consider a Single Family Design Review to construct a 1,089 square foot addition to existing 1,913 square foot single-family residence (approximately 590 sq. ft. of floor area to be removed). The project proposal will result in a total of 2,412 square feet for the residence (3,500 sq. ft. maximum building size permitted for this site). (Appl. No. 2009-0020)
APN: 044-351-200; Zoned: R-1A (Single Family Residential)
CEQA Status: Categorical Exemption per Section 15303
Applicant: Bolinger Design Services
Owners: Frederick & Laurie De Martini
Planner: Rob Gill 650-598-4204


6C. PUBLIC HEARING – 1500 Ralston Avenue (TO BE CONTINUED TO DATE UNCERTAIN)
To consider Conditional Use Permit amendments for the Koret athletic field for the Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) campus.
Appl. No.2005-0038; APN: 044-360-120; Zoned: PD (Planned Development)
CEQA Status: Recommended Categorical Exception per Section 15305
Dr. Judith Greig (Applicant) Notre Dame de Namur University (Owner)


7. REPORTS, STUDIES AND UPDATES:

7A. Motel 6 – 1101 Shoreway Road
7B. Charles Armstrong School – 1405 Solana Drive
7C. Ralston/US-101 Landscape Project
7D. San Mateo Development – North Road/43rd Avenue
7E. 900 Sixth Avenue – Belmont Vista Facility
7F. Caltrain Landscape Area
7G. Parking Study – Downtown Village Areas
7H. High Speed Train (HST) Project – San Francisco to San Jose
7I. 900 South Road – Single Family Dwelling
7J. Graffiti Removal – Old County Road
7K. Chucks Donuts – 641 Ralston Avenue
7L. Emmett House
7M. Landscape Improvements – City Properties – 780 El Camino Real, 875 Ralston Avenue, Sixth/Emmett Street

7. CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2009

Liaison: Commissioner Mayer
Alternate Liaison: Commissioner Parsons

8. ADJOURNMENT:

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 7:00 pm for a Regular 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