File #: 23-1125    Version: 1
Type: Agenda Item Status: Approved
File created: 6/1/2023 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: 6/27/2023 Final action: 6/27/2023
Title: HEARING - To consider the Planning Commission’s recommendation for approval of proposed amendments to Title 130 (Zoning Ordinance) of the County Code (Z23-0003) to rezone and to restore County design oversight for affected parcels by adding a new Design Review-Community Combining Zone (-DC) overlay to the remaining 11 commercial or multifamily-zoned parcels, or portions of parcels, that are not currently located within an existing (-DC) or (-PD) Combining Zone overlay; and Planning Commission recommending the Board of Supervisors take the following actions: 1) Find Rezone Z23-0003 exempt from CEQA under Section 15305 of the CEQA Guidelines (Minor Alterations in Land Use Limitations); and 2) Adopt and Authorize the Chair to sign Ordinance 5178 for said rezone (Attachment B). (Supervisorial District 4) FUNDING: General Fund.
Attachments: 1. A - Counsel Approval - Z23-0003, 2. B - Rezone Ordinance Z23-0003, 3. C - Parcel Legal Descriptions of Affected APNs, 4. D - APN 071280051 Map, 5. D - Revised Ordinance Exhibit A - APN 071280051 Rezone BOS Rcvd 6-26-23, 6. E - Planning Commission Staff Memo, 7. F - PC Staff Memo Exhibits A-D, 8. Executed Ordinance 5178, 9. RECEIPT Notice of Exemption, 10. FILED Notice of Exemption
Related files: 22-1101, 23-0256
Title
HEARING - To consider the Planning Commission’s recommendation for approval of proposed amendments to Title 130 (Zoning Ordinance) of the County Code (Z23-0003) to rezone and to restore County design oversight for affected parcels by adding a new Design Review-Community Combining Zone (-DC) overlay to the remaining 11 commercial or multifamily-zoned parcels, or portions of parcels, that are not currently located within an existing (-DC) or (-PD) Combining Zone overlay; and Planning Commission recommending the Board of Supervisors take the following actions:
1) Find Rezone Z23-0003 exempt from CEQA under Section 15305 of the CEQA Guidelines (Minor Alterations in Land Use Limitations); and
2) Adopt and Authorize the Chair to sign Ordinance 5178 for said rezone (Attachment B). (Supervisorial District 4)

FUNDING: General Fund.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On December 15, 2015 (Legistar File No. 11-0356, Item No. 42) the Board of Supervisors approved a comprehensive update to Title 130 of the County Ordinance Code (Zoning Ordinance). Prior to the 2015 Countywide Zoning Ordinance Update (2015 ZOU), previous Zoning Ordinance regulations, including former Section 17.14.130 (Architectural Supervision), required a discretionary Planning Commission review of all new buildings or structures on commercial and multifamily-zoned parcels visible from a state highway, which included all commercial or multifamily-zoned parcels within the Cool Rural Center.

After adoption of the 2015 ZOU, staff discovered that the above architectural supervision regulations for commercial and multifamily-zoned lands fronting state highways were inadvertently removed from the Zoning Ordinance. This resulted in inconsistent design oversight for commercial and multifamily-zoned lands within the Cool Rural Center. While many parcels still require County design oversight because they are located within a Design Review-Community Combining Zone (-DC) or a Planned Development (-PD) Com...

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