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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Contra
Supervisor Tom Torlakson
Costa
DATE: May 1, 1990 County
SUBJECT: IMPOSITION OF MORATORIUM IN THE MORGAN TERRITORY AREA
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
1 . Direct County Counsel and the Community Development
Director to complete the necessary official documents for the
imposition of a moratorium on any new general plan amendments, any new
subdivisions, and any new land use permits in the Morgan Territory
area. This moratorium shuold be in force until the zoning study is
completed and its recommendations incorporated in the new Countywide
General Plan.
2 . Set May 15, 1990 at 2 p.m. , for a public hearing on this
matter and decision.
3 . Commence immediately with the zoning study referenced
below and financed by Moutanin Meadows II . Complete this study by the
time the new Countywide General Plan is to be adopted so the study's
recommendations and policies can be incorporated into the new General
Plan.
4 . Direct Community Development staff to notify community
groups and property owners in the area as well as the City of Clayton,
the Marsh Creek Association and Save Mt. Diablo.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The issue of completing the zoning
studies called for Morgan Territory General Plan Amendments have come
up several times . When the Morgan Territory General Plan was adopted,
it allowed for the Mountain Meadows II project which was recently
affirmed again by the Board of Supervisors in its approval action of
April 10, 1990, but it pointedly called for a further development of
guidelines to regulate future growth in- the area.
The Mountain Meadows II project is conditioned to finance
this long-awaited zoning study. The work on the study should begin
immediately. It should include an examination of slope density zoning
ordinance approaches and restrictive ridge top/view shed guidelines.
The Planned Unit Development zoning appr9ach should be strongly
considered, too, in order to allow more flexible planning to fit
topography and habitat conditions and avoid the "cookie-cutter"
approach.
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CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
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VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: Community Development Dept. ATTESTED May 1, 1990
County Counsel
County Administrator Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and County Administrator
BY
Mee2/7-e3 DEPUTY