FROM:
Elise Semonian, Planning Director
SUBJECT:
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75 Jones Street, APN 007-283-12, Appeal of Planning Commission decision to approve amendment to Specific Planned Development at 75 Jones for conversion of a preschool into single family residence and a second story addition. The amendment allows the lower walls of the structure to be demolished...end
RECOMMENDATION
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That the Town Council conduct a public hearing, consider testimony from all parties, and deny the appeal and approve the project subject the findings in the staff report and subject to the Conditions of Approval in Attachment 6, with one additional condition to require a revised landscape plan that will provide for year-round screening between 75 Jones and 101 Ross by trees or other plants, to be approved by the Planning Director after considering input by the Ross Valley Fire Department, the applicant and any neighbors.
The following alternative actions are available:
1. Grant the appeal and overturn the Planning Commission decision with direction to staff to prepare a resolution with appropriate findings for consideration at a future Town Council meeting; or
2. Request additional information from any of the parties and/or staff and continue this matter to a future date for consideration of the requested information.
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BACKGROUND
See November 15, 2021, Planning Commission staff report attached (Attachment 3). All materials considered by the Planning Commission, which are made part of the public record, may be found with the November 15, 2021, meeting materials here (Item 5C):
https://sananselmo-ca.granicus.com/GeneratedAgendaViewer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=685
In February 2020, the Planning Commission approved an application for a Specific Development Plan to subdivide a former San Francisco Theological Seminary site, now owned by Erin Heath and Jim Rivera ("Applicants") into two parcels. One parcel included the single-family residence at 101 Ross Avenue and the ot...
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