To: Board of Supervisors
From: Planning and Building Department
Agenda Section: Consent
SUBJECT:
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Cooper General Plan Amendment and Zone Reclassification Petition
APN: 405-211-001
Case No.: PLN-2022-17694
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RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Adopt the attached resolution (Attachment 1) to accept the application for a General Plan Amendment and Zone Reclassification; and
2. Direct the Clerk of the Board to give notice of the decision to the applicant and any other interested party.
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SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Applicant fees.
DISCUSSION:
The Humboldt County Planning and Building Department received a petition requesting the Board accept an applicant-initiated General Plan Amendment and Zone Reclassification (Attachment 2) for processing. The property owner seeks to change the underlying General Plan designation and Zone classification on a single parcel of approximately 2.3 acres in the Freshwater area. The General Plan designation would change from Residential Agriculture (RA5-20) to Residential Low Density (RL). The zoning would change from Agriculture General (AG) to Residential One-Family (R-1-B-4). The applicant seeks the proposed changes, "...to be consistent with adjacent zoning to the west". There exists a nonconformity regarding the number of legal residences on the subject parcel. Following this, the applicant will be proposing to subdivide the parcel into two resulting parcels, which would resolve the nonconformity issue. Additionally, the petition includes a request to remove policy FWCP-P8 from the Freshwater Community Plan because it is outdated since conditions have changed and there is now water system capacity.
The project site is in the Freshwater area, on the South side of Freshwater Road, approximately 0.05 miles Southeast from the intersection of Freshwater Road and Grange Road, on the property known as 2314 Freshwater Road.
The current General Plan land use designations for the su...
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