Lafayette Planning Commission, Dec 2, 2024
The commission discussed housing element implementation and approved hillside development permits for siting and massing on Parcel A and Parcel B, each with a 14-day appeal period.
2 h 35 min in session · date on the body’s own agenda listing
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Posted as “Planning Commission, December 2, 2024”
The meeting, in short
The commission discussed housing element implementation and approved hillside development permits for siting and massing on Parcel A and Parcel B, each with a 14-day appeal period. 15:52
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We have had several projects that were either stalled, not constructed, where they use the density bonus to get the 4th story. One was just pretty much right across the street against the corner, and I felt sorry for the— felt sorry for the people across the creek because they're just looking at a 45-foot building. Wall.Gregory Mason · Commissioner59:41
That's part and parcel to what I do. There's no geotechnical reason why you couldn't, uh, um, shift that, shift the driveway. I live just down the hill from that. The soil is lousy there, but it's on, um, It's on the ridge. It's going to have the 24-inch diameter caissons drilled into bedrock. You know, it's not going anywhere.Gregory Mason · Commissioner2:30:43
I also think, well, since the ADU— state passed the ADU ordinance, to me it seems a little bit hypocritical when we're arguing about 5 feet into the setback when they can put an ADU 4 feet from the rear property line just administratively and nobody's going to do anything. So they're not— the state's not taking our setback seriously.Gregory Mason · Commissioner2:35:06
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