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HEARING - Planning and Building Department, Tahoe Planning and Stormwater Division, recommending the Board consider the following for Subdivision Map Amendment TM-C23-0001/ Whitehouse submitted by Melissa and Gary Whitehouse to amend recorded Subdivision Map D-007A to reduce an existing setback line from twenty (20) feet to ten (10) feet on property identified by Assessor’s Parcel Number 034-552-004, located on the south side of Mewuk Drive, approximately 459 feet southeast from the intersection with Nez Perce Drive, in the Meyers area:
1) Find Subdivision Map Amendment TM-C23-0001 to be Categorically Exempt pursuant to Section 15305, Minor Alterations in Land Use Limitations, of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); and
2) Approve Subdivision Map Amendment TM-C23-0001 amending Subdivision Map D-007A, based on the Findings and subject to the Conditions of Approval as presented.
FUNDING: Developer Funded.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Subdivision Map Amendments are required to be reviewed and approved by the original hearing body. The subject parcel was created by Subdivision Map D-007A, Attachment B, Exhibit C) recorded on June 24, 1963 after the Final Map was approved by the Board of Supervisors on the same day. The recorded map imposed easements on the parcel (Lot 1084), including a twenty (20) foot setback line adjacent to Mewuk Drive along the eastern property line. The setback line is described as “Easements for light and air and for public utility poles, wires and crossarms over those strips of land lying between the front lot line and those lines shown hereon and designated ‘SET BACK LINE’, said strips of land to be kept open and free from buildings”.
The applicant is requesting an amendment to the recorded map to reduce the existing setback line from twenty (20) feet to ten (10) feet for the purpose of egress to the site and building a two (2) car garage. The five (5) foot snow storage easement located within the twenty (20) foot set...
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