BELVEDERE PLANNING COMMISSION

REGULAR MEETING AGENDA

APRIL 15, 2008, 6:30 P.M.

450 SAN RAFAEL AVENUE, BELVEDERE, CALIFORNIA

HEARING PROCEDURE:

The Planning Commission will follow the following procedure for all items listed as public hearing items:

1)      The Chairman will ask for presentation of the staff report;

2)      The Commission will have the opportunity to question staff in order to clarify any specific points;

3)      The applicant and the project representative will be allowed to make a presentation, not to exceed 10 minutes for large projects, or 5 minutes for small projects, total for the applicant’s design team;

4)      The public hearing will be opened;

5)      Members of the audience in favor of the proposal will be allowed to speak, for a maximum of 3 minutes per speaker;

6)      Members of the audience against the proposal will be allowed to speak, for a maximum of 3 minutes per speaker;

7)      The applicant will be given an opportunity to respond to comments made by the audience, for a maximum of 5 minutes total for the applicant’s design team;

8)      The public hearing will be closed; and

9)      Discussion of the proposal will return to the Commission with formal action taken to approve, conditionally approve, deny, or continue review of the application.

A.           CALL TO ORDER OF REGULAR MEETING

B.           OPEN FORUM

This is an opportunity for any citizen to briefly address the Planning Commission on any matter that does not appear on this agenda.  Upon being recognized by the Chair, please state your name, address, and limit your oral statement to no more than three minutes.  Matters that appear to warrant a more lengthy presentation or Commission consideration will be agendized for further discussion at a later meeting.

 

C.           CONSENT CALENDAR

The Consent Calendar consists of items that the Planning Commission considers to be non-controversial.  Unless any item is specifically removed by any member of the Planning Commission, staff, or audience, the Consent Calendar will be adopted by one motion.  Items removed will be considered in the sequence as they appear below.  If any member of the audience wishes to have an item removed, please step to the microphone, state your name, and indicate the item.

1.      Draft Minutes of the March 18, 2008 Regular Meeting of the Planning Commission.

2.      Draft Minutes of the March 13, 2008 Special Meeting of the Planning Commission.

3.      Design Review for project landscaping associated with construction of a new 2,885-square-foot residence at 82 Lagoon Road. CEQA status: categorically exempt pursuant to section 15303. Property Owner: Jim and Nan Allen. Applicant: Holscher Architecture.

D.            PUBLIC HEARINGS

4.      Initial Study and Negative Declaration, Design Review, Use Permit, Revocable License and Retroactive Revocable License for addition of buoy and new boatlift at 35 West Shore Road, remanded by Belvedere City Council on appeal on February 4, 2008.  Buoy and boatlift are within waters owned by City of Belvedere and designated open space. Project includes minor landscape changes. CEQA status: Initial Study and Negative Declaration. Appellants/Property Owners: Derrek and Ginna Milan. 

 

5.      Demolition Permit, Design Review, and Revocable Licenses for demolition of an existing residence and construction of a new 4,850-square-foot residence, including guest wing, retaining walls, fences, pool, and landscaping at 18 Eucalyptus Road. Proposal includes removal of 16-inch-diameter oak tree and 19-inch-diameter double trunk oak tree, as well as large cypress, fir, and eucalyptus trees, as well as grading and new retaining walls at Belvedere Avenue frontage. CEQA status: categorically exempt pursuant to Section 15303. Property Owners: Steve and Pamela Pasquan. Applicant: Ronald W. Wager, Walter & Wager Architects.

6.      Design Review for installation of driveway gate and modifications to existing fencing and lighting at 125 Belvedere Avenue. CEQA status: categorically exempt pursuant to section 15301.  Property Owner: Robert and Carole McNeil. Applicant: Andrew Skurman Architects.

7.      Design Review, Variances and Exception to Total Floor Area for remodel and construction of additions totaling 844 square feet at 50 Cliff Road, including 693-square-foot garage, and modifications to existing windows, roof, walls, and exterior decks.  Project includes removal of 44% of exterior walls and windows. CEQA status: categorically exempt pursuant to Section 15301.  Applicant: Russell Pratt. Property Owners: R.S. Pratt Revocable Trust and J.M. Brown Revocable Trust.

8.      Initial Study and Negative Declaration, Design Review, Use Permit and Revocable License for construction of a new dock, addition of new floating dock, two boatlifts, 13 new steel pilings at 43 West Shore Road. Floating dock and four anchor pilings are within waters owned by City of Belvedere and designated open space. CEQA status: Initial Study and Negative Declaration. Property Owner: Peter Gerwe. Applicant: Paul Bergeron.

E. ADJOURNMENT

APPEALS: The Belvedere Municipal Code provides that the applicant or any interested person may appeal the action of the Planning Commission on any application.  The appeal must be in writing and submitted with a fee of $400.00 not later than seven (7) calendar days following the date of the Planning Commission action. Please note that if you challenge in court any of the matters described above, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described above, or in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or prior to, the above- referenced public hearing [Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)].

NOTICE:  WHERE TO VIEW AGENDA Materials

Staff reports and other writings distributed to the Planning Commission are available for public inspection at the following locations:

·   Online at www.cityofbelvedere.org/cz_planning_commission.html

·   Belvedere City Hall, 450 San Rafael Avenue, Belvedere

  (Writings distributed to the Planning Commission after the posting date of this agenda are available for public inspection at this location only.)

·   Belvedere-Tiburon Library, 1501 Tiburon Boulevard, Tiburon.

To request automatic mailing of agenda materials, please contact the Deputy City Clerk at 415-435-8908.

NOTICE: AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT

The following accommodations will be provided, upon request, to persons with a disability:  agendas and/or agenda packet materials in alternate formats and special assistance needed to attend or participate in this meeting. Please make your request at the Office of the Planning Department or by calling (415) 435-3838.  Whenever possible, please make your request four working days in advance.

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Pierce Macdonald, Planning Manager                                               Date Posted: April 10, 2008

Items will not necessarily be heard in the above order, nor, because of possible changes or extenuating conditions, be heard.  For additional information, please contact City Hall.

450 San Rafael Avenue, Belvedere, CA 94920  (415) 435-3838