HomeMy WebLinkAboutNovember 10
Los Altos Hills Environmental Design and Protection Committee Board
Meeting Final Minutes
Tuesday November 10, 2015 at 5.30 pm
Town Hall, 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills, Ca. 94022
1. Attending: Carol Gottlieb (co-Chair), Kjell Karlsson, Pat Ley (co-Chair),
Neela Shukla, Wai Lee Wong
Absent: John Harpootlian , Mary Ann Malcolm, , Ed Smith.
2. Next Board Meeting Date: January 12, 2016
3. Next Field Trip Dates:
4. Next Site Development/Fast Track Meetings: Oct. 20, Nov. 3, 10.
5. Next Town Council Meeting: 6PM Thursday January 21, 2016
6. Next Planning Commission Meetings: 7 PM Thursday January 7, 2016
7. Review of Field Trip: (this review is to provide additional detailed information to Board
Members not on the trips)
A. Friday, October 16 Sites visited by Pat, Carol & Ed
i. 24032 Oak Knoll Court, HARDSCAPE. (Owner:McHan & Poindexter)…FINE
ii. 14511 De Bell Rd. … NEW HOME (Owner: Wolak) ………………….…FINE
iii 13209 Sunset Dr. LANDSCAPE (Owner: Morgan)..NEED TO SUBMIT NEW PLAN
iv. 10631 Magdalena Rd. (Owner: Zing & Tan)……………………………FINE
B. Friday October 30 None, only 1 site
C. Friday November 6. Sites visited by Carol, Ed & Neela
I 12234 Tepa Way Landscape (Owner-Muliawan Dejuke Trustee)…TROUBLESOME
ii. 12930 La Cuesta Dr. New Residence & Variance (Owner-Diligent Operation LTD)
-------------NEED TO MITIGATE LIGHT POLLUTION
8. Review of Fast Track/Site Development Hearings:
Oct. 20 = Neela 23400 Ravensbury Ave.-Swimming Pool (Owner: Vaughn)----------
-------NO ISSUE
26238 Fremont Rd., Landscape (Owner: Red Orchid LLC)
Nov. 3 = Carol 11555 Hillpark Lane, Major addition (Owner: Parvarandeh)
….ACCEPTED WITH CONDITION TO PLANT EVERGREEN TREES
Nov. 10 = Mary-Anno
9. Review of Town Council Meeting:
October 15th ------ NEW COUNCIL MEMBER ROGER SPRING SWORN IN
10. Review of Planning Commission Meetings:
Special meeting: 7 PM Thursday Oct. 22, 2015…… POSTPHONE
Agenda: Alternative Approaches to Development Regulations for
Small Lots and to Receive Public Comment
11. Review of Planning Commission Meetings: 7 PM Thursday October 1st
Agenda: Modification to the town of Los Altos Hills Wildland-Urban
interface fire area Map… APPROVED 4 TO 2
Conditional-use permit renewal for an equestrian facility…
APPROVED 5 TO 0
12. Other Business
a. “The Draft Minutes of the October 13, 2015 Board Meeting Minutes” was approved
b. Sterling Property.
EDPC comments on the Initial Study of the Stirling Subdivision by the
EMC Planning Group Inc.
On October 14th 2015 members of the Environmental Design & Protection
Committee visited the Stirling Subdivision site. The EDPC was later asked to
submit by October 23rd 2015 its comments on the Initial Study of the Stirling
Subdivision submitted by the EMC Planning Group Inc.They are as follows:
On August 21st 2014 the Environmental Design & Protection Committee
submitted comments on the Stirling Subdivision Formal Submittal for a
nine-lot Tentative Subdivision Map.
1. On that occasion we asked for an Open Space Easement to be
established over a group of heritage oaks on Lot 1, oaks which form a
significant grove.
Has this been done?
2. Is the path of the road through the site the same as that taken on the
plan used for the 2014 study? If it is not the same, where and how does it
differ?
3. We asked that there be a wildlife corridor left along the eastern fence
line, allowing the movement of animals from one open space to another.
Why has this suggestion not been accepted, since a wildlife permeable
fence is shown all around the Stirling property, including this eastern
property line? The 30’ easement along this fence could then
accommodate the pathway which all the Committees concerned with the
environment wish to have.
4. View Easements were requested for the residents of Simon Lane: has
this request been addressed?
We submit that a 5’ view easement on both sides of the property lines
between Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 would allow such views.
As no grading or building can be done within 10’ of a lot line, then such a
5’ site view line would not affect the applicant’s MDA.
5. Cannot an alternative be found to the position of the Lot 7 driveway?
As it is now drawn three oaks – no.85, dia.26”, no.83, dia 20”, and no.82,
dia 20” – are to be cut down, and probably nos.86 and 84 as well, equally
heritage size.
We understand that the Open Space Committee and the Pathways
Committee are as dissatisfied as we that few if any of our carefully
considered suggestions have been adopted. The above comments have
been phrased in question form so as to require answers which we hope
will be reasonable and straightforward.
Pat Ley, EDPC co-Chair
Carol Gottlieb, EDPC co-Chair
October 23rd 2015
12. Adjourned at 6:30PM.