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HEARING - Planning and Building Department, Tahoe Planning and Stormwater Division, submitting for approval to amend recorded Subdivision Map D-007A to reduce an existing non-buildable setback on the northern property line from 20 feet to 10 feet, on property identified by Assessor’s Parcel Number 034-562-001 located on the south side of Mewuk Drive approximately a quarter mile west of the intersection with North Upper Truckee Road, in the South Lake Tahoe area, and recommending the Board of Supervisors take the following actions:
1) Find Parcel Map Amendment P-C20-0004, amending Subdivision Map D-007A, to be exempt in accordance with California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Section 15305-Minor Alterations in Land use Limitations; and
2) Approve Parcel Map Amendment P-C20-0004 amending Subdivision Map D-007A, based on the Findings and subject to the Conditions of Approval as presented. (Supervisorial District 5).
FUNDING: Property owner-funded recording of parcel map amendment.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Parcel Map Amendments are required to be reviewed and approved by the original hearing body. The subject parcel was created by Subdivision Map D-007A (Staff Memo Exhibit F), recorded on June 24, 1963 after approval by the Board of Supervisors on the same day. The recorded map imposed easements on the parcel (Lot 1086), including a 20-foot Setback Line adjacent to both Mewuk Drive and Pooewin Street along the northern and western property lines. The Setback Line is described as an “Easement 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 5-foot snow storage easement located within the 20 foot Setback will not be affected.
The applicant is requesting an amendment to the recorded map to reduce the 20-foot setback to 10 feet for the purpose of egre...
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