Attachment 121
TOWN COUNCIL – May 1, 2018
REQUIRED FINDINGS FOR:
Twin Oaks Drive
General Plan Amendment GP-12-001
Planned Development Application PD-10-006
Environmental Impact Report EIR-12-001
Requesting approval of a general plan amendment from Agricultural to Hillside
Residential, Cancellation of the existing Williamson Act contract, and a Planned
Development to rezone property from RC TO HR-1:PD to allow for subdivision of one
lot into 12 lots, construction of 10 new single-family residences, and removal of large
protected trees. APN 532-16-006.
APPLICANT/PROPERTY OWNER: Tom Dodge, Surrey Farms Estates, LLC.
FINDINGS
Required finding for CEQA:
■ An Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was prepared for the proposed development. The
Town Council certifies the EIR, made the Findings of Fact, and adopts the Mitigation
Monitoring and Reporting Program.
Required consistency with the Town’s General Plan:
■ That the proposal to amend the General Plan designation and rezone the property is
consistent with the General Plan and its Elements in that the proposed Hillside Residential
zoning and Planned Development overlay allow residential use consistent with the adjacent
properties’ zoning districts.
Required compliance with Hillside Development Standards & Guidelines:
■ The project is in compliance with the Hillside Development Standards and Guidelines with
the exception of cut and fill depths and work outside the Least Restrictive Development
Area for the roadways and future driveway, which have been determined to be acceptable.
Compliance with Hillside Specific Plan:
■ The project is in compliance with the Hillside Specific Plan in that the proposal is the
development of the lot for 8 single-family residences with associated site elements on an
existing parcel. The proposal is consistent with the development criteria included in the
plan.
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Required consistency with Town’s Housing Element:
■ The project is consistent with the Town’s Housing Element and addresses the Town’s
housing needs as identified in the Housing Element.
Required findings for Cancellation of the Williamson Act Contract:
■ The cancellation is for land on which a Notice of Nonrenewal has been served, pursuant to
Section 51245 of the Government Code. A Notice of Nonrenewal for the 17.5-acre property
was received by the Town on April 28, 2015, and recorded by the County Recorder on
October 31, 2017, and was assigned Document No. 23789473.
■ The cancellation is not likely to result in the removal of adjacent lands from agricultural use
because none of the adjacent lands are under an agricultural use or zone.
■ The cancellation is for an alternate use that is consistent with the provisions of the Town’s
General Plan as stated above.
■ The cancellation will not result in discontiguous patterns of urban development in that the
surrounding parcels are located in a developed residential area of the Town of Los Gatos.
Zoning of adjacent properties include Single-Family Residential (R-1) and Hillside Residential
(HR), including the Hillbrook School which shares part of the property’s northern boundary.
No vacant, undeveloped, or agricultural lands are adjacent to the subject property.
■ There is no proximate, non-contracted land which is both available and suitable for the use
to which it is proposed that the contracted land be put, or that development of the
contracted land would provide more contiguous patterns of urban development than
development of proximate non-contracted land.
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