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Mayor Jones offered that the City Council was looking forward to a speedy resolution to • the annexation process by LAFCO and welcoming the residents of the West Loyola neighborhood to Los Altos Hills. 14. Negative Declaration and Tentative Map for a Six-Lot Subdivision: Lands of Mad Manor,II,LLC, 27641 Purissima Road. File#22-06-IS-ND-TM-GD Leslie Hopper, Consultant Planner, introduced the item to Council. Before Council was a proposed six-lot (six) subdivision of approximately twelve (12) acres located at the intersection of Purissima Road and Elena Road. Deer Creek ran through the west portion of the property. Hooper proceeded with a PowerPoint presentation and reviewed an aerial vicinity map of the site and surrounding properties; the lift station for the La Cresta sewer project approved in 2005 and currently under construction; the maintenance road and bridge that would serve the sewer line; layout of the proposed subdivision and the six parcels; public road that served parcels 1-4 and the easement that would serve parcels 5 and 6; and the proposed pathway that had been recommended by the Pathways Committee and was consistent with the Path Master Plan. Hopper noted that the property was currently owned by Mad Manor 11, LLC. Mad Manor was a family"name" and the name of the property and owner's residence located on parcel 1. Mad Manor was also the name of the owner, Ruth Morrison's business entity. Morrison had requested that the public road be named Mad Manor Way. Hopper advised Council that there had been discussion of the name during the Planning Commission's review of the project and the Commission had recommended that the road be named "Mad Manor Way"according to the wishes of the owner. Hopper reviewed the proposed open space easement on the property along Deer Creek. The standard easement on a property would be located twenty-five (25) feet from the top of the creek bank. The Open Space Committee had recommended an expanded easement to include the drip line of four heritage oaks on parcel 2. The illustrations of the two open space easements were displayed on a slide exhibit of the site plan for Council. Following discussion of the easement requirement at the Commission's hearing, they had concurred with the owner's request and were recommending that the western boundary of the open space easement on Parcel 2 be twenty five (25) feet from the top of the bank rather than the dripline of the heritage oaks as recommended by the Open Space Committee. The heritage oaks were located on a flat area of the parcel. The lot, as proposed, was constrained. She reviewed the conceptual footprint of the house. In response to a question from Councilmember O'Malley regarding the alternative open space easement that included the dripline of the trees, Hopper explained that it had been drawn conceptually using an aerial of the site. Hopper advised Council that staff had prepared an initial study for the project. Based on the study, staff was recommending that a negative declaration be determined and mitigation measures be adopted. The Planning Commission had recommended Council approval of the Initial Study and adoption of the Mitigated Negative Declaration and • Mitigation Monitoring Program; and, approval of the Tentative Map for the six-lot 5 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes September 13,2007