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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS - Costa
County
FROM: DENNIS M. BARRY, AICP "
INTERIM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
DATE: OCTOBER 7, 1997
SUBJECT: HEARING PROCESS FOR THE COWELL RANCH PROJECT
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. ACKNOWLEDGE that according to Board policy, the County Planning
Commission is the Commission level hearing body for the Cowell Ranch
General Plan Amendment and rezoning applications;
2. ACKNOWLEDGE that the East County Regional Planning Commission
provides knowledge and experience regarding development issues in the East
County area and that their input on the Cowell Ranch project is desirable;
3. AFFIRM that the County Planning Commission, acting with the advice and
input of the East County Regional Planning Commission, will be the
Commission level hearing body for the General Plan Amendment and
Preliminary Development Plan applications for the Cowell Ranch project.
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Contact: Catherine Kutsuris (510/335-1237) ATTESTED October 7 , 1997
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HEARING PROCESS FOR THE COWELL RANCH PROJECT
October 7, 1997
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RECOMMENDATIONS (continued)
4. DIRECT that the County Planning Commission will hold joint hearings with
the East County Regional Planning Commission in the Antioch/Brentwood
area;
5. REQUEST the City of Brentwood to consider designating two members of the
Cowell Ranch Policy Advisory Committee (comprised of City Councilmembers
and City Planning Commissioners) to sit with the County Commissions in
order to provide additional input during the hearing process.
FISCAL IMPACT
The cost of processing the General Plan Amendment and the Preliminary
Development Plan is paid for by the applicant.
BACKGROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS
On December 12, 1994, the Board established a policy which directs that large
projects such as the Cowell Ranch applications be heard by the County Planning
Commission. A threshold of 1500 trips was identified as the threshold at which
projects had countywide significance and thus, should be heard by the County
Commission.
The staff recommendations listed as items #1 through #4 above are consistent with
this policy, and the Board's May 12, 1997 decision regarding the hearing process
to be used for the Tassajara Valley Property Owners Association applications. In
that case, the Board decided that joint hearings should be held with the Regional
Planning Commission, and that those hearings should be held in the local area.
Since the project site is directly adjacent to the City of Brentwood, the Board may
wish to ask the City to consider designating two Councilmembers or Planning
Commissioners to join with the Commissions during the public hearings to provide
additional local expertise. This would be consistent with the Board's initial direction
regarding coordinating the project review with the City of Brentwood.