Memorandum
Date: March 3, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Scott DeLeon, Eric Porter - Community Development Department
Subject: Appeal to Board of Supervisors, AB 19-07 for Major Use Permit UP 19-09
(Grocery Outlet Appeal)
Exhibits: A1 - Vicinity Map, Site/Building/Signage Plans
A2 - AB 19-07 Appeal Packet
A3 - Katzoff & Riggs, LLP Response (December 5, 2019)
A4 - Planning Commission Staff Report Packet (October 10, 2019)
A5 - Planning Commission Minutes (October 24, 2019)
A6 - CEQA Addendum and MMRP
A7 - Agency Comments
A8 - Conditions of Approval
A9 - LAFCO Annexation Order
A10 - Hidden Valley Lake Community Service District Letter
A11 - PMC Water Supply Assessment
A12 - Testimony from Attorney for KIMCO (Feb 21, 2020)
Executive Summary: (include fiscal and staffing impact narrative):
The appellant, Lake County Local represented by attorney Tal C. Finney, is appealing the decision by the Planning Commission at a hearing that occurred on October 24, 2019 on the approval of Major Use Permit, UP 19-09 and an Addendum to Environmental Impact report (EIR) to allow the developer of Valley Oaks development to construct an approximately 18,000 square foot retail store for Grocery Outlet, on a commercially zoned portion of a parcel that is about 42.75 acres in size.
Project Background and Summary
The project site is located at the intersection of Highway 29 and Hartmann Road, with a new access proposed off of Hartmann Road named Oak Meadow Drive. While the original plan and approved project connected to the new roundabout, the applicant moved the access onto Hartmann Road; this was the configuration taken to the Planning Commission. The project consists of ninety-two paved on-site parking spaces, with an additional 4 ADA parking spaces and would provide circulation for delivery trucks to occur in a manner that is indirectly accessed by Highway 29. A trash enclosure, lig...
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