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CITY C OLNCIL MINUTES - July 2, 1980 E. SPECIAL ORDERS (continued) 2. Public Hearings: a) Request for Tentative Map Approval, LANDS OF RICA, File TM #2095-79 Due to a possible conflict of interest, Councilwoman Hillestad removed herself from consideration of this matter. The City Engineer presented his report and recommended adopting the Negative Declaration with the following four mitigating measures: (1) Storm drainage improvements to carry water from improvements to Chaparral Way; 12) Landscaping for erosion control; (3) Conservation easements for lard over 408 and swales over 308; and (4) All drainage and underground facilities shall be installed in a manner to prevent erosion. In response to questions from Councilmemmbers, the City Engineer made the following comments: (1) this property had the sane detail regarding storm drainage as the adjoining property; conformed to the subarea plan element study; (2) there were easements to cover offsite drainage down from the property between Chaparral & Moody and between Moody and Adobe Creek; (3)there would be no additional crawling outside roadway and additional grading necessary to correct driveway grade would be taken up in retaining walls which were shown on the Tentative Map. Council requested that a 5th mitigation measure be added to read: Any further grading on the road to modify the profile will require use of retaining walls within the 258 limit. In response to a question from McReynolds concerning the rationale behind not requiring an Environmental Impact Report, the City Engineer stated that with the mitigating measures and the four reasons stated in his 12/12/79 staff report, it was not felt an FSR was necessary. He further noted that the applicant had hired a traffic engineer and that one of the recommended conditions of the tentative map was a barrier designed by a traffic engineer for the area on the south side of Chaparral Way. McReynolds still had concerns about the driveway, namely, the slope was in excess of 25% and the ordinance states it should be less than 20%. Proft referred to the 2/6/80 City Council Meeting Minutes and received Council's concur-_ence that three of the four issues had been taken care of, namely, grading (other than the driveway), drainage and more detailed improvement plans. Regarding driveway safety Nystrom asked the City Engineer to note what changes had been made since the last map. The City Engineer responded that the last map had a different approach configuration to Chaparral Way and the grade didn't flatten out before it met Chaparral Way. Since then the traffic engineer had reeamiended flattening of 58 grade, striping, hots dots, etc. M3TION SECONDED AND FAILED: Moved by Perkins, seconded by Nystrom and failed by the following roll call vote to adopt the Negative Declaration, LANDS OF RICA, with the five proposed mitigating measures. AYES: Mayor Nystrom and Councilman Perkins NOES: Councilmembers McReynolds and Proft PRESENT: Councilwoman Hillestad 4W Mr. Proft noted, for the record, that his negative vote was based on the question of safety of the proposed driveway as it relates to human beings. 062