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Item 10 Staff Report Guadalupe Rubbish Disposal Company. Modification of Existing Use Permit to Add an Administration Building and to Relocate Two Equipment Maintenance Buildings with Accompanying Parking AreasCouncil Agenda Date: 7/5/88 Item No. %n TOWN OF LOS GATOS Council Agenda Report DATE: JUNE 23, 1988 TO: MAYOR AND TOWN COUNCIL FROM: DEBORAH SWARTFAGER, TOWN MANAGE SUBJECT: GUADALUPE RUBBISH DISPOSAL COMPANY Modification of existing use permit to add an administration building and to relocate two equipment maintenance buildings with accompanying parking areas. RECOMMENDATION: Informational BACKGROUND The City of San Jose referred the matter of the Guadalupe Rubbish Disposal Company's proposed landfill expansion to the Town in January 1988. The proj- ect included the relocation of two existing buildings and the construction of a new administration building and parking lot. The applicant has filed for development prezoning, which is currently pending before the City of San Jose, to prepare for annexation. The approvals of the modifications to Guadalupe Disposal's Use Permit is being done through the county simultaneously. This is a separate application, which does not include the expansion of the area used for landfill operations or gas recovery facilities. That portion of the project will be handled by San Jose once the property has been annexed and the EIR that is being prepared is complete. DISCUSSION The applicants are requesting to modify an existing Use Permit to allow the relocation of two equipment maintenance buildings and the construction of a new administration building and parking areas for 61 trucks and 110 cars. One existing building is used for landfill equipment maintenance and the other is used for franchise collection vehicle maintenance. A small septic system will be constructed in conjunction with the administration building. The County has prepared an initial study and has determined that although the proposed (Continued Page 2) PREPARED BY: LEB:dr LEE E. BOWMAN C-_ Planning Director cc: Regular Distribution Reviewed by: TOWN COUNCIL ACTION DIRECTED TO: ACTION OF COUNCIL: COMMENTS: " PAGE 2 'MAYOR AND TOWN COUNC_, GUADALUPE RUBBISH DISPOSAL COMPANY July 5, 1988 project could have a significant effect on the environment, there will not be a significant effect in this case since mitigation measures have been added to the project. Therefore a Negative Declaration is recommended. The mitigation measures included in the project to avoid potentially significant effects are as follows: 1. Project will be conditioned by Land Development Engineering to in- sure that drainage is properly handled. 2. Exposed slope will be seeded to minimize the potential for erosion. A significant amount of grading will be necessary in order to create a pad large enough for the parking areas and movement of heavy equipment around the around the maintenance buildings. Although a very large volume of material is being moved (330,000 cubic yards of cut and 360,000 cubic yards of fill), it is in keeping with the on -going activity on the site. The grading methods used and seeding the slopes after grading operations are complete will help insure that the project does not result in increased on -site erosion. Exterior materials for the administration building will consist of natural stained wood siding with darker stained wood trim. The two maintenance buildings being relocated are made of vertically ribbed metal. None of the structures should be visible from off the site. The proposed project will allow construction trucks to be parked on -site, rather than in Los Gatos. This will shift the a.m. and p.m. traffic patterns. The trucks will leave the facility in the mornings rather than go- ing directly to their routes from the Los Gatos site. In the evenings the trucks will remain on the site instead of returning to Los Gatos. Overall, there will be no change in the actual amount of traffic generated by the fa- cility. The a.m. - p.m. shift should not have any significant impact on the traffic situation in the general area of the project site. The County Planning Commission held a Public Hearing on this matter on June 2, 1988. The action of the Commission was to approve the Negative Declaration and grant the Use Permit subject to Architectural and Site Approval. The County is aware that the Town is concerned about the entire project and will notify the Planning Department if any significant changes are made in the plans being processed by them.