Item 2 - Staff Report.16 Chestnut Ave
PREPARED BY: Erin Walters
Associate Planner
Reviewed by: Planning Manager, Community Development Director, and Town Attorney
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 406-354-6832
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
PLANNING COMMISSION
REPORT
MEETING DATE: 10/09/2019 ITEM NO: 2
DATE: October 2, 2019
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Joel Paulson, Community Development Director
SUBJECT: Architecture and Site Application S-17-047. Project Location: 16 Chestnut
Avenue. Property Owner: Kim Roper. Applicant/Appellant: Bess Wiersema,
Studio 3 Design. Project Planner: Erin Walters.
Consider an appeal of a Development Review Committee decision approving
a request for demolition of an existing pre-1941 single-family residence and
construction of a new single-family residence on property zoned R-1:12.
APN 510-40-012.
REMARKS:
The appellant and staff request that the item be continued to the December 11, 2019 meeting
to provide additional time for the preparation and review of additional materials (Exhibit 21).
EXHIBITS:
Previously received with the July 10, 2019 Staff Report:
1. Location Map
2. Required Findings and Considerations (one page)
3. Recommended Conditions of Approval (13 pages)
4. Applicant’s Scope of Work and Letter of Justification, received December 19, 2019 (14
pages)
5. Project Data Sheet, received April 10, 2019 (two pages)
6. June 27, 2018 Historic Preservation Committee Meeting Minutes (five pages)
7. Consulting Architect Report, received March 12, 2018 (four pages)
8. Applicant’s Arborist Report regarding Live Oak (Tree #6), received February 12, 2019 (13
pages)
9. Applicant’s Arborist Report, received February 12, 2019 (25 pages)
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EXHIBITS (continued):
10. Town’s Consulting Arborist Peer Review, received March 7, 2019 (five pages)
11. Applicant’s Arborist Response Letter, received April 10, 2019 (three pages)
12. Town’s Consulting Arborist Peer Review Letter, received May 1, 2019 (one page)
13. Town Prepared Site Diagram Overlay (one page)
14. May 21, 2019 Development Review Committee meeting minutes (two pages)
15. Letters of Support from Neighbors, received December 19, 2018 and June 28, 2019 (seven
pages)
16. Appellant’s Letter, received May 31, 2019 (two pages)
17. Applicant’s Supplemental Letter and Exhibits, received June 28, 2019 (22 pages)
18. Neighborhood Petition of Support, received June 28, 2019 (seven pages)
19. Project Information Sheet provided by the Parks and Public Works Department, received
July 1, 2019 (three pages)
20. Development Plans received April 10, 2019 (27 pages)
Received with this Staff Report:
21. Appellant’s request to continue, received September 10, 2019 (one page)