Orcutt Union School District General Plan Amendment and Rezone (Key Site 17)

The request includes a Comprehensive Plan Amendment and Rezone to change the current land use designation from Residential 8.0 units /acre to Residential 20.0 units/acre and to change the zoning from Small Lot Planned (SLP) to Design Residential 20.0 units per acre (DR-20). The application also includes a request to amend OCP Policy KS 17-1 and Development Standards DevStd. KS 17-2; KS 17-3; and, KS 17-6 to allow greater flexibility in site design. In addition, the applicant is requesting to add a new development standard (Dev Std KS 17-7) to provide guidance in the architectural style and character of future development on Key Site 17. Lastly, the applicant is proposing new parking, building height and coverage requirements to the Key Site 17 development standards.

Permit Application Numbers: 09GPA-00000-00004, 09RZN-00000-00012.




Location

The project is located south of Old Town Orcutt, south of Soares Avenue and north of Rice Ranch Road. The site is identified as APNs 105-134-004, 005 and 105-330-005, 006 and is approximately 9.53 acres in size. The project site is also within the Orcutt Community Plan (OCP) and located on the eastern portion of Key Site 17 (Map with Land Use designations).




Status

The Comprehensive Plan amendment request was initiated at the Planning Commission on July 15, 2009. The application for the Rezone was submitted by the applicants on December 11, 2009.

The project requires preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). A Notice of Preparation and Scoping paper have been prepared. A public scoping hearing has been scheduled on January 7, 2010. The scoping hearing will be held at 4:30 p.m. at the Public Works Conference Room located at 620 West Foster Road in Santa Maria (Map).




Schedule

January 7, 2009 - Public Scoping Hearing





Documents

Notice of Preparation

Draft EIR Scoping Paper





Contacts

John Zorovich, Planner
jzoro@co.santa-barbara.ca.us
(805) 934-6297

Zoraida Abresch, Supervising Planner
abresch@co.santa-barbara.ca.us
(805) 934-6585