Amador County – The Plymouth Planning Commission will resume a public hearing Wednesday on the application to annex two residential projects into city limits.
The public hearing was opened two weeks ago on Aug. 17, and was continued to resume Wednesday, Aug. 31. The public hearing is on the Zinfandel and Shenandoah Ridge development projects, for which the city is seeking a “Sphere of Influence” expansion, and also annexation and pre-zoning.
Jeff Beiswenger, City Planner, in a report Aug. 17 recommended the public hearings, and for the Planning Commission to recommend to the Plymouth City Council the “certification of an Environmental Impact Report, with a Mitigation Monitoring Plan for the Sphere of Influence expansion and annexation request.”
Beiswenger in the report said the projects and their components are consistent with the Plymouth General Plan, and the “Sphere of Influence amendment and annexation requests are supported by the city General Plan and represent a logical extension of city limits.”
He said a development agreement has been prepared which is “fiscally beneficial to the city, while providing the developer with an extended time period to build-out the projects.”
Bob Reeder, president, and Stefan Horstschraer are applicants of the project, for which Beiswenger has recommended the Planning Commission request the Sphere of Influence expansion from the Amador County Local Agency Formation Commission.
He also recommended the Planning Commission in turn recommend that the Council adopt a “pre-zoning designation of Planned Development (West) for the entire annexation area including the Shenandoah Ridge and Zinfandel projects sites, as well as the additional properties to be annexed.” Also recommended were associated vesting tentative maps, development plans, design guidelines and development agreements for the two projects.
Shenandoah’s annexation would include an approximate 147 acres, with “one residential neighborhood, a park, a natural trail network and large open spaces.” The land is located immediately north of city limits, and west of Highway 49.
The Zinfandel site, on the southwest border of Plymouth, includes 365 acres, and another 3.7 acres that are part of the neighboring Greilich parcel. Zinfandel “consists of one residential neighborhood, passive and active parks, a natural trail network and large open spaces.”
Additional properties to be considered for the Sphere expansion and annexation request would “extend the city’s boundaries in a complete and un-segmented manner,” Beiswenger said. Those parcels (currently in the Plymouth Sphere of Influence) are the Plymouth Port LLC, Crain, Gansberg, and Greilich parcels. Another, owned by Annie Mason LLC, would be added to the Sphere and annexed.
The public hearing resumes 7 p.m. Wednesday Aug. 31 in Plymouth City Hall.
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