TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Brian D. Bordona, Director of Planning, Building and Environmental Services
REPORT BY: Kelli Cahill, Planner III
SUBJECT: Sentinel LLC/Inglenook Residence Appeal
RECOMMENDATION
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PUBLIC HEARING - Sentinel LLC/Inglenook Residence Appeal
Open and move to continue the public hearing for an appeal filed by Water Audit California (Appellant) to the Napa County Planning Commission's decision on November 15, 2023, to approve a Use Permit Exception to the Conservation Regulations (No. P22-00404-UP) filed by Adobe Associates, Inc. on behalf of Niebaum-Coppola Estate Winery LP (Applicant) to allow a private access road serving agricultural structures and a future residence to encroach into the creek setback. (No Fiscal Impact)
(APPELLANT, APPLICANT, AND STAFF REQUEST A CONTINUANCE TO MARCH 12, 2024 AT 9:00 AM)
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BACKGROUND
The matter before the Board involves an appeal filed by the Appellant to decisions made by the Napa County Planning Commission on November 15, 2023, to: (1) adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration; and (2) Approve Use Permit Exception to the Conservation Regulations No. P22-00404, to allow improvements to a private access road serving existing agricultural structures and a future residence to encroach into the minimum required 45- to 55-foot creek setback from the top of bank of Bear Creek.
The project site is approximately three miles from the City of St. Helena municipal boundary, has a General Plan land use designation of Agriculture, Watershed and Open Space (AWOS), and is located in the Agricultural Watershed (AW) zoning district, APN 027-200-017 and 027-210-032.The project is along an existing private driveway to a parcel utilized for agricultural storage that includes several existing barns where a future residence is proposed (027-200-017). The proposed driveway improvements involving road widening is proposed along the existing driveway where portions are located within the setback of Bear Creek.
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