TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: David Morrison, Director of Planning, Building and Environmental Services
REPORT BY: John McDowell, Supervising Planner
SUBJECT: Residential Development Ordinance - Board Workshop
RECOMMENDATION
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SET MATTER 10:00 AM - 1 Hour
Director of Planning, Building and Environmental Services (PBES) requests direction on the attached draft ordinance establishing limits on residential site improvements for parcels within the Agricultural Preserve (AP) Zoning District.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
It is requested that the Board conduct a workshop on the attached draft ordinance that, if implemented, would establish limits on residential site improvements for parcels zoned AP. Current zoning regulations do no limit the amount of an AP property that can be developed with residential uses and structures. The proposed ordinance would limit by-right residential uses on an AP property to a contiguous one-acre building envelope that would be established at the time a building permit is issued. Projects that result in over one-acre of contiguous residential use would be subject to approval of a discretionary use permit before the Zoning Administrator. The draft ordinance has provisions allowing preexisting legally established residential uses that exceed the threshold to continue, and be rearranged, provided that a use permit would be triggered if the area of preexisting residential development area is expanded.
The AP zoning district applies to the vast majority of valley floor properties between Cities of Napa and Calistoga, as well as two other valley floor locations in Gordon and Wooden Valleys. Napa County Code Section 18.16.010 states that "[t]he AP district classification is intended to be applied in the fertile valley and foothill areas of Napa County in which agriculture is and should continue to be the predominant land use, where uses incompatible to agricultural should be precluded and where the development of urban-type uses wou...
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