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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
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Saddle Mountain Estates, Tract #6297: (continued)
subdivision in compliance with the approved checklist for the tentative map does
not appear to have been accomplished.
Pae 1 Arastradero Road Culvert: Lastly, the members of the Planning Commission
r en"," iscusse a rage M111 K0dG culvert project and lamented for the necessity
of removing the large eucalyptus trees at the intersection of Arastradero and
Page Mill Road. It was noted that the removal of 4& -se trees ha¢'62�n considered
by the Town on several occasions in the past. N �
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stant City Engineer/Planner