HomeMy WebLinkAboutRes No 567PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 567
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF PALM
DESERT, CALIFORNIA, SETTING FORTH ITS FINDINGS AND DECLARING
A COMMISSION POLICY RELATIVE TO THE REVIEW AND CONSIDERATION
OF TENTATIVE SUBDIVISION MAPS, AND OTHER MATTERS RELATED
THERETO.
WHEREAS, Title 26 of the Palm Desert Municipal Code (Subdivision
Ordinance) requires the Planning Commission to conduct a Public Hearing to
consider Tentative Maps, as submitted by subdividers, for purpose of
reporting to the City Council on their recommendation as to approval,
conditional approval or dissapproval; and,
WHEREAS, a Tentative Map recommended for approval must contain the
number, size and configuration of lots to be created and the alignment and
width of streets and easements, as required by the said Title 26; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council must find that a Final Map is in
conformance with a Tentative Map, prior to their action approving a Final
Map, pursuant to the provisions said Title 26, found in Chapter 24 thereof; and,
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission is additionally charged by Title
25 of the Palm Desert Municipal Code (Zoning Ordinance) to review and take
final action on requests for initial plot plan approval, forwarded to
Commission by the City Design Review Board; and,
WHEREAS, the provisions of said Title 25, require specific exhibits
detailing uses and features of proposed developments, to be submitted through
the Design Review process to establish a final plan of construction; and,
WHEREAS, in consideration of its duties and responsibilities, and
the procedures and processes of the City noted herein, and further defined
in the Municipal Code of the City of Palm Desert, California, the Planning
Commission does find as follows:
1. That the Planning Commission is unable to properly fulfill its
responsibility for report and recommendation to the City Council
on a Tentative Map, which seeks to implement a conceptual
Development Plan that has not received a detailed and precise
design evaluation through the Design Review process.
2. That the establishment of precise plan of development is a
necessary prerequisite for a Commission recommendation, on a
Tentative Map which specifies the number, size and configuration
of lots to be created and the alignment and width of streets and
easements.
3. That approval of a Tentative Map, without benefit of plans approved
through the Design Review process, may prove to constrain and
bias a subsequent Design Review evaluation, and result in a
disservice to the objectives of that process, because key site
design features are specified as a part of the subdivision.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Planning Commission of the City
of Palm Desert, California, as follows:
1. That the above recitation are true and correct and constitute
the findings and evaluation of the Commission in consideration
of this matter.
2. That as a condition of Tentative Map application acceptance, the
Director of Environmental Services is requested to require the
submittal of a subdivision building or development plan (pursuant
to Municipal Code Section 26.20.050A) for which an initial plan
has been approved through the Design Review process, where it is
the design and intention of the subdivision to implement a specific
plan of development.
FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that it shall be a Planning Commission Policy
to use said approved Design Review Plans in their consideration of Tentative
Maps, to determine if map features conform to the approved plans.
PLANNING COMMISSION k"3OLUTION NO. 567 '' Page -2-
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the
Palm Desert Planning Commission, held on this 16th day of January, 1980,
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
Berkey, Kryder, Miller, Snyder
None
None
None
WALTER it SNYDER, Chai an
ATTEST:
PAUL A. WILLIAMS, Secretary
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