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v PLANNING COMMISSION Town of Los Altos Hills 26379 Fremont Road Los Altos Hills, California MINUTES OF AN ADJOURNED MEETING Saturday, September 16, 1978 The adjourned meeting of the Planning Commission met at 9:30 a.m. on September 16 in the field on the Lands of Horton File #TM 2066-77. Those in attendance in- cluded the applicants ancy ancr Jack Horton; P anning Commissioners Lachenbruch, Kuranoff, VanTamelen and Reeves; Pathway Committee members Fran Stevenson and Mr. and Mrs. Stutz; engineer Tim Sandis of Sandis and Associates; and Staff represented by John Markl, Assistant City Engineer/Planner. Topics discussed regarding the Lands of Horton included the re -location of the path- way presently existing on the adjoining Lands of the Roman Catholic Orphanaae, which is routed around a water tank and a quarry site; the available building areas on Lots 2, 3, and 6; the proposed development of Lot 1 as per a landscape design provided by the applicants; and a shortening of the proposed Versailles Court; and finally, the re -design of Lots 2, 3, and 4 to provide additional building area for Lot 3. Saddle Mountain Estates Tract #6297: The Planning Commission walked the sub- Jec su ivisIon un er construction and noted the following: 1. The incorrect location of the retention basin on Lot 26 which is required by Town ordinances on grading to be ten feet from the property line. Furthermore, the installation of the embankment fill appeared to be within an unstable, marshy area, making the stability of the structure questionable without proper keying into stable bedrock material. 2. The considerable grading on lots adjoining the proposed streets resulting in large building site pads. 3. The appearance of this grading and filling without the supervision of a soils engineer and the potential for the failure of these fills as a result of lawn watering activities and precipitation at some time in the future when proposed dwellings are inhabited. 4. The apparent grading of the majority of the lots prematurely without benefit of site development review, and the non-compliance with the Type II foundation designation on many lots, as required by the approved tentative map. The Planning Commission was accompanied by Mr. Chown, an adjoining neighbor to the west to the Lands of Saddle Mountain Estates, and an interested observer who is presently a graduate geology student at Stanford. The geology student related his observations of the construction as it progressed, noting that the large fill areas did not appear to have been constructed correctly (i.e., keyed into bedrock formations) or under the supervision of a soils engineer. #42W The review submitted by the Town Geologist at the time of tentative map approval reconmended that a final "as built" geologic map be submitted to the Town. How- ever, this work does not appear to have been done based on a continuous geologic inspection during road construction. As a result, the development of this