The Sutter Creek Planning Commission met Monday evening to discuss a full agenda. Three public hearings were scheduled, all specific to General Plan Amendments and Zone Changes or Rezoning. Because the General Plan may only be amended four times per year, it was deemed necessary to group the public hearings together to utilize one of those 4 allowable amendments. The first hearing on the agenda was the Hartwick Project, presented by Sutter Creek Associate Planner Tim Chamberlain. The project is comprised of a .28 acre parcel acquired by Gary Hartwick in exchange for a .06 acre parcel of land needed by the City for improvements to the Spanish Street and Old Highway 49 Intersection. The proposed change is to rezone the parcel from Residential Single Family to Commercial. The commission voted 3-1 in approval with Commissioner Kirkley dissenting and Commissioner Olson absent. The Planning Commission also discussed the Lincoln Mine Center. Proposed future development on the site includes commercial or office development, single family residential units, and 30,544 square feet of the property would be reserved as open space. The project site is currently vacant, and has been used for grazing of cattle and other non commercial agricultural uses in the past. The last hearing on the agenda was for Bryson Cottages, a proposal which involves 24 townhouses to be built on 1.77 acres on Bryson Drive, next to Bryson Park. The project presented at the Planning Commission meeting had been scaled down however, to allow for 12 single family lots with the cottages ranging from 1300-1800 square feet, and so the General Plan Designation would need to be changed to Residential Single Family. It was approved to recommend the project to the City Council.
Thursday, 15 May 2008 02:08
Sutter Creek Planning Holds Public Hearings on General Plan
The Sutter Creek Planning Commission met Monday evening to discuss a full agenda. Three public hearings were scheduled, all specific to General Plan Amendments and Zone Changes or Rezoning. Because the General Plan may only be amended four times per year, it was deemed necessary to group the public hearings together to utilize one of those 4 allowable amendments. The first hearing on the agenda was the Hartwick Project, presented by Sutter Creek Associate Planner Tim Chamberlain. The project is comprised of a .28 acre parcel acquired by Gary Hartwick in exchange for a .06 acre parcel of land needed by the City for improvements to the Spanish Street and Old Highway 49 Intersection. The proposed change is to rezone the parcel from Residential Single Family to Commercial. The commission voted 3-1 in approval with Commissioner Kirkley dissenting and Commissioner Olson absent. The Planning Commission also discussed the Lincoln Mine Center. Proposed future development on the site includes commercial or office development, single family residential units, and 30,544 square feet of the property would be reserved as open space. The project site is currently vacant, and has been used for grazing of cattle and other non commercial agricultural uses in the past. The last hearing on the agenda was for Bryson Cottages, a proposal which involves 24 townhouses to be built on 1.77 acres on Bryson Drive, next to Bryson Park. The project presented at the Planning Commission meeting had been scaled down however, to allow for 12 single family lots with the cottages ranging from 1300-1800 square feet, and so the General Plan Designation would need to be changed to Residential Single Family. It was approved to recommend the project to the City Council.
