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HomeMy WebLinkAbout79-58 - Resolutions ~ESOLUTION NO. 79-58 A RESOLUTION OF THE RANCHO CUCAMONGA PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDING A RESIDENTIAL GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN TO REGULATE NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA WHEP~EAS, it is the goal of the City of Rancho Cucamonga to prepare and adopt a comprehensive Growth Management Plan setting forth the manner in which residential development projects may be developed so as to provide adequate levels of public services and to achieve a social, economic and environmental balance within the City; WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has reviewed and considered the Growth Management Plan and all testimony and comments pertaining to it and finds the Growth Management Plan to be adequate in scope and content and recommends approval by the City Council; WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has found, based on review of the Initial Study, that this project will not create a significant adverse impact on the environment and recommends issuance of a Negative Declaration by the City Council. SECTION 1: PURPOSE AND PRIORITY A. Findings 1. Unmanaged residential growth in the City of Rancho Cucamonga can overburden elementary, junior and senior high schools in the community. 2. Unmanaged residential growth can strain public services and result in the impairment of the health, safety and welfare of Rancho Cucamonga. 3. Haphazard and disorderly growth patterns adversely affect the City's and public agency's ability to provide adequate public services for all developments. 4. Minimal architectural and site design c~iteria of residential development can create a "tract" appearance in the community. Such an appearance detrimentally affects the physical character and image of the City of Rancho Cucamonga. Further, lack of landscaping and design sensitivity can diminish the environmental quality and economic well being of the community. 5. Continued unmanaged growth can seriously impair the City's ability to carry out the goals and policies of the General Plan and can adversely affect the health and welfare of the Community. B. Purpose A Growth Management Plan is designed to implement certain primary goals, policies and objectives of the General Plan. These goals constitute the purpose of a Growth Management Plan and are as follows: 1. To preserve and enhance the physical character of the community. 2. To provide adequate school facilities for all existing and future residential development in the City of Rancho Cucamonga. 3. To help ensure that adequate levels of public services are provided for existing and future development in the City of Rancho Cucamonga. 4. To ensure that minimum design quality in new develop- ments is provided to enhance the aesthetic, environmental and economic well being of the community. 5. To encourage use of energy conservation techniques in new residential development. 6. To help maintain and improve levels of City administra- tive services. 7. To encourage orderly development of residences within areas more readily served by public services. 8. To encourage the development of master planned projects which provide the service needs of the residents of those projects. 9. To progide a variety of housing types and encourage affordable housing. C. Scope This ordinance shall apply to all residential development projects in the City of Rancho Cucamonga, as defined in Section 2. SECTION 2: DEFINITIONS For purposes of this Ordinance, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated: City - City in this ordinance refers specifically to the City of Rancho Cucamonga. Mandatory Criteria - Criteria considered essential for all residential development. Residential Development Project - Any development which will result in the subdivision of residential lots or the construction of new residential dwelling units including single family, multi- family, apartments, condominiums, townhouses, master planned developments, modular units, condominium conversions of dwelling units which have not been built prior to the effective date of this ordinance, mobilehome parks, etc., which require review by application of this ordinance. Residenital Assessment System - The measuring device, provided by Resolution of the City Council and adopted concurrently herewith, which is composed of a number of rating criteria used for assigning point ratings to proposed residential development projects. Threshold Point Limit - The minimum number of points a project is required to receive under the Residential Assessment System in order to receive consideration for approval. SECTION 3: EXEMPTIONS The following projects shall be specifically exempt from the provisions of this ordinance: A. Single family, duplex and triplex developments involving a total of four (4) units or less provided that any such application on a parcel shall be on a one time basis only for a two year period from the date of issuance of a building permit for the last unit on said parcel. B. Residential land divisions involving four (4) lots or less provided that any such application on a parcel having the same zoning district shall be on a one time basis only for a two year period from the date of issuance of a building permit for the last unit of the project. Subdivisions separating parcels having different zoning districts shall be exempt from ~the provisions of this ordinance. C. Government subsidized senior citizen housing projects. D. Renewable building permits issued prior to the effective date of this ordinance. E. Condominium conversions of dwelling units build prior to the effective date of this ordinance. SECTION 4: APPLICATION PROCEDURES AND FEES A. Application An application for a residential project shall be made to the Community Development Department of the City of ~{ancho Cucamonga on a form provided by the City. Such application shall contain the following information and be accompanied by the following documents: 1. Site Utilization Map including: a. Vicinity Map to show the relationship of the proposed development to adjacent development and surrounding area (small inset map). b. Use Layout Map showing the location and type of proposed residential use or uses, the nature and extent of open space, the extent of any other uses proposed and an indication Of all adjacent uses. C. The applicant shall submit to the Community Development Director written certification from the Cucamonga County Water District that adequate sewer and water facilities are or will be available to serve the proposed project. For projects using septic facilities allowable by the Santa Ana Regional Quality Control Board and the City, written certification of acceptability including all supportive information shall be obtained. SECTION 6: REVIEW AND PROCESSING PROCEDURES FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT A. Establishment of a Residential Assessment System All applications for residential development projects shall be rated by the Come,unity Development Director pursuant to a Residential Assessment System adopted by the City Council. Such Residential Assessment System adopted by the Council shall establish five (5) basic categories and each category shall be assigned a maximum total points which will then be divided into sub-categories for rating purposes. The five (5) basic categorie~ upon which each application will be rated are 1) Public Services, ~).Design Quaiity, 3) Affordable Housin.g, 4) Planned ~mmu~itiesland~lanned Unit Developments, and 5) Orderly Development. Projects shall be evaluated under the Residential Assessment System tri-annually by the Community Development Director. Application submittal deadline dates and review dates shall be as follows: Review Period 1 - December 1 Appli~ati0nr~il~g p~riod - No~en~ber 15,. 1979- Decem~er-3I,~l~79 ~December 1 - December 31 for all following years). .Review P~riod 2-~P~i~i - July 31 ~ Application filing period - April 1 - Apri1 ~Review Period 3 =-A~gust 1~ - November-31 filing period - August 1 - August 31 A Threshold Point Limit shall be established by the City Council as part of the Residential Assessment System. This Threshold Point Limit shall constitute the minimum number of points a project is required to achieve if it is to be given any further consideration for approval. In the event school facilities and or water and sewer facilities are not available to meet the mandatory criteria~ conditions, the following system of priorities shall be established by the Community Development Director should said facilities become available: All applications which pass the threshold point limit and receive approval within any single review period shall receive priority ranking before those projects approved in successive review periods. Within each single review period, however, the priority ranking shall be based upon the highest point rating above the threshold limit. In the event a tie exists within the single review period, the priority ranking shall go to the project which receives approval first. In the event of further ties, the priority ranking shall go to the project which submitted a complete application first. All development review projects which meet or exceed the threshold point limit and receive approval within any single review period and have made prior non-exclusive financial and legal arrangements with affected school and/ or sewer and water districts for acceptable additive capacity shall have priority over residential development projects that have not made such arrangements except that said priority among those projects that have made such arrange- ments shall go to those projects having the highest point ratings. Within (5) days after the point rating determination of the Community Development Director, the Director shall cause a written notice to be mailed (certified) to the applicant stating the point rating for his residential project and whether his application has received the required Threshold Point Limit for further consideration by the Planning Commission. B. Appeal of Ratings Ratings of applications which-require the approval of the Community Development Director may be appealed to the Planning Commission by any aggrieved person or body, public or private, within fourteen (14) days from date of written notice. The decision of the Planning Commission of any such appeal may be appealed to the City Council by any aggrieved party in the same manner and time limitations as are set forth for the filing of an appeal with the Planning Commission. The decision of the City Council shall be final. SECTION 7: PLANNING COMMISSION REVIEW Applications subject to the provisions of this ordinance and subject to Planning Commission review and approval shall be evaluated in terms of environmental review and clearance, subdivision review pursuant to the State Subdivision Map Act, and residential development project review pursuant to the Growth Management Plan. The Planning Commission shall approve or deny the project after said review. The Planning Com~ission shall also hear appeals of point ratings as described in Section 6B. SECTION 8: BUILDING PERMIT ISSUANCE No building permits shall be issued for any residential dwelling unit which is subject to the provisions of this Ordinance without approval as provided herein, provided however, that nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed or intended to abrogate or annul any prior residential development project approval lawfully issued and in effect on the date of the effectiveness of this Ordinance with respect to an already approved building permit, land division or site plan including all residential development projects submitted for plan check unless time limits of such approvals described above have been exceeded in which case such projects are subject to the provisions of the Growth Management Plan. SECTION 9: TIME LIMITS FOR APPROVAL A. Expiration of Approval The following provision shall apply to applications for Residential Development Projects except as specifically exempted by Section 3 of this Ordinance. Residential development projects approved after the effective date of this Ordinance shall expire after twelve (12) months from date of approval. B. Extension of Tentative Subdivision Approval A person who has filed a tentative subdivision may request an extension of approval or conditional approval from the Planning Commission by written application to the Community Development Department. Such extension request application must be filed at least sixty (60) days before the approval or conditional approval is due to expire. The application shall contain a statement of the reasons for the extension and a detailed description of the progress made towards meeting all the conditions for final approval. If an extension is granted, new conditions may be imposed and existing conditions may be revised by the Planning Commission. Any extension of a subdivision shall not exceed a period of eighteen (18) months. SECTION 10: ANNUAL REVIEW AND EXPIRATION This Ordinance shall be reviewed annually by the City Council and Planning Commission and shall be of no further force or effect after a period of five (5) years from the date of adoption of this Ordinance, unless extended by Ordinance of the City Council. SECTION 11: OTHER LAWS, ORDERS AND ORDINANCES Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to affect, annul or abrogate any other laws or ordinances pertaining or applicable to the properties and areas affected by2this Ordinance, nor shall it be deemed to conflict with any State laws, orders or requirements affecting such properties or areas. In the event that a conflict does arise, the more restrictive ordinance shall apply. SECTION 12: SEVERABILITY The invalidity of any word, section, clause, paragraph, sentence, part or provisions of this Ordinance shall not affect the validity of any other part of this Ordinance which can be given affect without such invalid part or parts. NOW, THEI{EFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: 1. That the Planning Commission of the City of Rancho Cucamonga hereby adopts Resolution No. 79-58 recommending that the City Council approve and adopt the Growth Management Plan on the 12th day of September, 1979. 2. That a Certified copy of the Resolution and related material hereby adopted by the Planning Commission shall be forwarded to the City Council. APPRO~D A~ ADOPTED THIS 12TH DAY OF SEPTE~ER, 1979. P~ING CO~ISSION OF THE CITY OF ~NCHO CUC~ONGA Secretary of the Planing Co~ission I, JACK LAM, Secretary of the Planning Commission of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly introduced, passed, and adopted by the Planning Commission of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, at a regular meeting of the Planning Commission held on the 22nd day of August, 1979 by the following vote to wit: AYES: COMMISSIONERS: TOLST0¥~ REMPEL, JONES NOES: COMMISSIONERS: GAl{CIA ABSENT: COMMISSIONERS: DAHL