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File #: 25-00318    Version: 1
Type: Departmental Agenda Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 4/1/2025 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 4/8/2025 Final action: 4/8/2025
Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding an appeal, filed by Michael Stoltey, Applicant, of the County Planning Commission's incomplete application determination for the Richards Ranch (Key Site 26) Project, Fourth District, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.) a) Deny the Appeal, Case No. 25APL-00009; b) Determine and find that the Application, Case Nos. 24DVP-00018, 24CUP-00033, and 24TRM-00003, is incomplete for the reasons discussed in the associated Board Letter and Staff Report; and c) Determine that the above recommended action is an administrative activity of the County that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment and is therefore not a "project" defined for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5). Alternatively, the Board may take the following action, as follows: a) Uphold the Appeal, Case No. 25APL-00009; b) Determine that the Application, Case Nos. 24DVP-00018, 24CUP-00...
Sponsors: PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - Application for Appeal to the Board of Supervisors, 3. Attachment B - Incomplete Letters, 4. Attachment C - SB 330 Preliminary Application Form and Cover Letter, 5. Attachment D - Application Re Submittal Package, 6. Letter to Planning & Development by Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP (“Brownstein”), 7. Enclosure 1 - Plan Set BR Package, 8. Enclosure 2 - Grading TRM BuildersRemedy, 9. Enclosure 3 - Drainage Study (32310634.1), 10. Enclosure 4 - Storm Water Control Plan (Tier 4)(32310633.1), 11. Enclosure 5 - Trip Generation Comparison, Site Access and VMT Analysis, 12. Enclosure 6 - UVP As builts by MNS, 13. Enclosure 7 - Applicable Checklists, 14. Enclosure 8 - BHFS Letter to HCD 2024.11.12 TA Request County re Government Code Section 65941.1, 15. Enclosure 9 - Biological Resources Mapping, 16. Enclosure 10a - Annexation Project Air Quality Compilation, 17. Enclosure 10b - Annexation Project Biology Compilation, 18. Enclosure 10d - EIR Traffic Compilation, 19. Richards Ranch Annexation Draft EIR Vol 1 DEIR, 20. Richards Ranch Annexation Draft EIR Vol 2 DEIR Appendices, 21. Richards Ranch Annexation FEIR Vol 11 Final EIR, 22. Richards Ranch Annexation FEIR Vol 12 Final EIR Appendices, 23. Richards Ranch Annexation FEIR Vol 21 2022 DEIR RTC, 24. Richards Ranch Annexation FEIR Vol 22 2022 DEIR RTC Appendices, 25. Richards Ranch Annexation Partially Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report, 26. Richards Ranch Annexation FEIR Vol 3 2024 PRDEIR RTC, 27. Santa Maria EIR Resource Compilations Table of Contents, 28. Attachment E - Applicable Plan Set Checklist, 29. Attachment F - Planning Commission Action Letter, 30. Attachment G - Planning Commission Staff Report, 31. Attachment H - Planning Commission Appeal Application and Letter, 32. Appellant Comment Letter, 33. Public Comment - Californians for Homeownership, 34. Public Comment - NAHB, 35. Public Comment - HBACC & CBIA, 36. Hearing Time Estimate, 37. Applicant-Appellant Letter of Technical Assistance from California Department of HCD, 38. Presentation, 39. Applicant-Appellant Presentation, 40. Speaker Slip, 41. Minute Order, 42. Noticing

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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding an appeal, filed by Michael Stoltey, Applicant, of the County Planning Commission’s incomplete application determination for the Richards Ranch (Key Site 26) Project, Fourth District, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.)

 

a) Deny the Appeal, Case No. 25APL-00009;

 

b) Determine and find that the Application, Case Nos. 24DVP-00018, 24CUP-00033, and 24TRM-00003, is incomplete for the reasons discussed in the associated Board Letter and Staff Report; and

 

c) Determine that the above recommended action is an administrative activity of the County that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment and is therefore not a “project” defined for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5).

 

Alternatively, the Board may take the following action, as follows:

 

a) Uphold the Appeal, Case No. 25APL-00009;

 

b) Determine that the Application, Case Nos. 24DVP-00018, 24CUP-00033, and 24TRM-00003, is complete; and

 

c) Determine that the above recommended action is an administrative activity of the County that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment and is therefore not a “project” defined for the purposes of the CEQA under CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5).

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY