Addendum with Exhibit.Wood Road
PREPARED BY: SEAN MULLIN, AICP
Associate Planner
Reviewed by: Planning Manager and Community Development Director
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● (408) 354-6872
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
PLANNING COMMISSION
REPORT
MEETING DATE: 08/25/2021
ITEM NO: 3
ADDENDUM
DATE: August 24, 2021
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Joel Paulson, Community Development Director
SUBJECT: Consider Approval for Construction of a New Single-family Residence and Site
Improvements Requiring a Grading Permit on Vacant Property Zoned HR-5
Located on Wood Road. APN 510-47-045. Architecture and Site Application
S-21-003. Property Owners: Omari and Kavita Bouknight. Applicant: Gary
Kohlsaat, Architect. Project Planner: Sean Mullin.
REMARKS:
Exhibit 16 includes a letter from the applicant’s civil engineer summarizing their research and
conclusion regarding the neighbor’s claim of easement on the subject property.
EXHIBITS:
Previously received with the July 28, 2021 Staff Report:
1. Location Map
2. Required Findings and Considerations
3. Recommended Conditions of Approval
4. Visibility Analysis
5. Color and materials board
6. Project Description and Letter of Justification, dated July 21, 2021
7. Consulting Architect’s Report, dated February 5, 2021
8. Consulting Arborist’s Report, dated March 22, 2021
9. Applicant’s neighbor outreach efforts
10. Public comments received by 11:00 a.m., Friday, July 23, 2021
11. Development Plans
Previously received with the July 28, 2021 Addendum Report:
12. Public comments received between 11:01 a.m., Friday, July 23, 2021 and 11:00 a.m.,
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
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SUBJECT: Wood Road (510-47-045)/S-21-003
DATE: August 24, 2021
Previously received with the August 25, 2021 Staff Report:
13. Applicant Response Letter, dated August 19, 2021
14. Public comments received between 11:01 a.m., Wednesday, July 28, 2021 and 11:00 a.m.,
Friday, August 20, 2021
15. Revised Development Plans, received August 19, 2021
Received with this Addendum Report:
16. Civil Engineer’s letter, dated August 23, 2021
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August 23, 2021
Members of the Planning Commission
Town of Los Gatos
110 East Main St
Los Gatos, CA 95030
RE: ASA No. S-21-003, August 28, 2021 Agenda Item No. 2
Wood Road Easement
Dear Chair and Members of the Planning Commission,
The letter submitted by Matteoni, O’Laughlin, & Hechtman, dated July 23, 2021 refers to the Wood
Road right of way across the property under application (APN 510-47-045) (the “Property) and benefitting the
adjacent owner, David Ebrahimi (APNs 510-46-006 and 510-46-007). Their letter includes an Exhibit 2 and claims
the right of way is shown in blue.
Prior to 1965, the exact location of the easement for the right of way across the Property was not
defined. The Record of Survey map filed on February 10, 1965 in Book 190 of Maps, page 52 shows a parcel
labeled as “WOOD ROAD (30’ WIDE)” (see attached). However, a Record of Survey doesn’t establish easement
rights. Title to this property was granted to the owner of Parcel 2 as shown on said Record of Survey via a
Quitclaim Deed recorded March 6, 1972 in Volume 9731, pages 555-556, Official Records. The parcel labeled as
“WOOD ROAD (30’ WIDE)” was APN 510-47-043 and Parcel 2 was APN 510-47-027.
In 1974 an easement for Wood Road was granted to the then owner of the Ebrahimi property with an
Easement Deed recorded on July 31, 1974 in Volume B018, pages 553-554, Official Records. This Easement
Deed describes a 36’ wide easement with complete bearings and distances traversing APNs 510-47-043 and 510-
47-027 to the properties owned by Ebrahimi.
On October 26, 2016, a Certificate of Lot Line Adjustment was recorded, changing the boundary
between the parcels described as APN 510-47-043 and APN 510-47-027 to Parcel A and Parcel B as shown on
Exhibit “E” (see attached). Exhibit “E” shows the 36’ wide right of way.
I have found no evidence that the Record of Survey with the parcel labeled as “WOOD ROAD (30’
WIDE)” established easement rights to the portion of the parcel not used as Wood Road and the easement deed
in 1974 formalized the exact location of the Wood Road right of way.
Regards,
Teresa Price, P.E.
EXHIBIT 16