Napa County

CONSERVATION, DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING COMMISSION

MEETING AGENDA

MARCH 19, 2003

COMMISSION MEMBERS
COMMISSIONER	VICE-CHAIRPERSON	CHAIRPERSON	COMMISSIONER	COMMISSIONER
Terry Scott	Larry Schoenke	David Graves	Bob Fiddaman	Jim King
SECRETARY-DIRECTOR Charles Wilson

The Commission welcomes you to its meeting which is regularly scheduled the first and third Wednesday of the month. The Commission meets at 1195 Third Street, Room 305, Napa. The following information is provided to ensure your understanding and participation in the Commission's meeting and decision making process. Your comments and participation in the meeting are invited and would be welcomed. It is our desire to give everyone an opportunity to speak and be heard in a timely manner and within an atmosphere of respect and diplomacy. These procedures are meant to foster an atmosphere of respect.

Assistive listening devices are available for the hearing impaired from the office of the Clerk of the Board. If an ASL interpreter or any other special arrangement is required, please provide the Clerk of the Board with 24-hour notice by calling 253-6088 TDD.

ORDER OF BUSINESS:

Agenda items that do not have a specified hearing time listed on the agenda may be heard at any time during the meeting at the discretion of the Commission. Items to be Decided Without Additional Testimony on the Agenda are considered at the beginning of the meeting. Items that generate a large turnout of interested citizens at a Commission meeting may be heard early in the meeting as an accommodation to the public.

ITEMS TO BE DECIDED WITHOUT ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY:

These Items identified with a symbol (þ) on the agenda are regular items which are recommended for approval or continuance by staff with the applicant's consent concerning conditions of approval, when the applicant has signed any required project revision statement and when no member of the Commission or public indicates a desire to comment or ask questions about the item. These items regardless of their agenda assigned number will be acted on by the Commission in one motion at the beginning of the meeting.

Applicants having items listed on the Consent Agenda need not speak unless they disagree with the staff recommendation or wish to comment. Items removed from the Consent Agenda, will be heard in the numerical order listed on the agenda.

If you arrive after the meeting has started and have any question concerning whether or not an agenda item has already been heard by the Commission, please check with the Secretary of the Commission.

PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK CONCERNING AN AGENDA ITEM:

If you wish to speak on an item on the Agenda and under discussion by the Commission, you may do so upon receiving recognition from the Chairperson. After being recognized by the Chairperson, please step to one of the microphones and state your name and address and make your presentation. No comment or testimony shall be shouted from the audience. All comments are to be directed to the Commission, including inquiries requiring staff response.

CONDUCT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AND TESTIMONY:

When speaking on an item, try to limit comments and testimony to 5 minutes. If there is a controversial item with many speakers from the public, the Chairperson may set exact time limits to allow everyone time to be heard. For Public hearing items “applicants” are allowed 10 minutes to speak to make their formal presentation of their project and will be given the opportunity to rebut all other testimony.

Written testimony should be limited; any lengthy reports or materials submitted may result in the Commission, upon consideration, continuing the item to a subsequent meeting.

When speaking, please keep to the topic at hand and try not to repeat comments. This is to allow all projects on the agenda to be heard and to allow everyone present time to speak.

STAFF REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS:

Copies of all staff reports and recommendations to be considered by the Commission are usually available at the Planning Department Offices on the Friday preceding the meeting and at the meeting. Individual copies of staff reports and recommendations are placed on the table located inside the meeting room door. The red binder, placed on the table, contains copies of all reports. If you are unable to obtain a copy of the report(s) you are interested in or cannot locate the red binder, please contact the Commission Secretary. The secretary is seated on the right hand side in the front of the room.

Items that are shaded will be heard together.

APPEAL PROCEDURE:

If you do not agree with the Commission's decision or the conditions that may have been imposed by the Commission in approving an agenda item, you may appeal the Commission's action to the Napa County Board of Supervisors. Appeal must be filed within ten (10) working days from the date of the Commission's action. Appeals may be limited to those issues raised at the public hearing relating to the agenda item or to written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at or prior to the public hearing.

For additional information concerning the County's Ordinance requirements for filing an appeal or to obtain the required forms to file an appeal, please stop at the front counter in the County Executive Office/Clerk of the Board, Room 310, 1195 Third Street in Napa. If you have any question concerning the appeals procedure, please call (707) 253‑4580 and request assistance.

CONSERVATION, DEVELOPMENT and

PLANNING COMMISSION

MEETING AGENDA

MARCH 19, 2003

9:00 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M.

1195 THIRD STREET, ROOM 305, NAPA

COMMISSION MEMBERS
COMMISSIONER	VICE-CHAIRPERSON	CHAIRPERSON	COMMISSIONER	COMMISSIONER
Terry Scott	Larry Schoenke	David Graves	Bob Fiddaman	Jim King
SECRETARY-DIRECTOR Charles Wilson

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. ROLL CALL

3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

4. CITIZEN COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS (10 minutes)

The Commission invites Citizen comments and recommendations concerning current problems and future prospects of a planning nature, which are within the jurisdiction of the Conservation, Development & Planning Commission. Anyone who wishes to speak to the Commission on such a matter, if it is not on the agenda, may do so at this time. The Commission may not be able to take action on any such presentation. Commission action or non-action will be based on the specifics of the individual presentation.

5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

6. AGENDA REVIEW

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING AGENDA ITEMS WILL BE DISCUSSED
AND APPROVED, DENIED OR CONTINUED

Public Hearings:

7. ITEMS TO BE DECIDED WITHOUT ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY - item þ

Items marked with a þ will be acted upon by the Commission on one motion at the beginning of the public hearings, regardless of their numbered position on the agenda. Persons wishing to speak to any items so listed should indicate so during this time.

8. VERIZON WIRELESS & NEXTEL COMMUNICATIONS / JOSEPH HENSLEY (OWNER) / I-80 SITE - USE PERMIT REQUEST #01097-UP
CEQA STATUS: Categorically Exempt.
REQUEST: To consider several alternative sites and designs for a new unmanned wireless cellular telephone facility to be generally located adjacent to the Interstate I-80 freeway near American Canyon Road and to consider and possibly approve a Use Permit for the revised proposal for an unmanned wireless facility on the Hensley property consisting of: (1) a “slim line” monopole with a height of approximately 20 feet located within a ten foot by ten foot lease area on the westerly portion of the site; (2) ground-mounted support equipment within a 20 foot by 35 foot fenced lease area northwest of the monopole with a freestanding ±250 square foot equipment shed with a height of nine feet above existing grade; (3) construction of an unpaved eight foot wide gravel road to serve the proposed wireless cellular complex that extends approximately 930 linear feet from Canyon Road, and; (4) extension of overhead electrical power and telephone service lines for approximately 810 linear feet that will also serve the cellular complex, located on a 20.44 acre parcel on the south side of American Canyon Road approximately 800 feet southeast of its intersection with Canyon Road within the AW (Agricultural Watershed) zoning district. (Assessor’s Parcel # 059-060-026). JH

9. DEL DOTTO WINERY / ERICKSON PROPERTIES, INC. - USE PERMIT REQUEST #02082-UP
CEQA STATUS: Mitigated Negative Declaration Prepared. According to the Mitigated Negative Declaration, the proposed project would have, if mitigation measures are not included, potentially significant environmental impacts in the following areas: traffic, historic resources, and aesthetics.
REQUEST: Approval of a Use Permit to establish a 48,000 gallon per year winery within: (1) a new 6,924 square foot winery building with 15,025 square feet of caves for a winery totaling 21,949 square feet; (2) custom crushing activities (crushing, fermentation, barrel aging and bottling) for up to six custom producers utilizing 21% (10,000 gallons per year) of the total approved winery production capacity; (3) four full-time and one part-time employees; (4) 200 visitors per week; (5) 20 parking spaces; (6) tours and tastings by appointment only; (7) a marketing plan; (8) an entry structure, and (9) a left-hand turn lane on St. Helena Highway, located on a ±15.00 acre parcel (after a pending Lot Line Adjustment) on the west side of St. Helena Highway, 800 feet south of its intersection with Zinfandel Lane, within an AP (Agricultural Preserve) zoning district. (Assessor’s Parcel #027-160-045 ptn, and 046) 1445 South St. Helena Highway, St. Helena. (Continued from November 06, December 04, 2002, January 15, February 05, February 19, and March 05, 2003). RN

10. WHITE COTTAGE RANCH WINERY / DENNIS AND ADELE JOHNS - USE PERMIT REQUEST #02130-UP

CEQA STATUS: Mitigated Negative Declaration Prepared. According to the Mitigated Negative Declaration, the proposed project would have, if mitigation measures are not included, potentially significant environmental impacts in the following areas: noise and cultural resources.

REQUEST: Approval of a Use Permit to establish a new 20,000 gallon per year winery with: (1) 5,000 square feet of building and 6,000 square feet of caves for a winery totaling 11,000 square feet; (2) 3,012 square feet of covered work area; (3) two full-time employees and three part-time employees (at crush); (4) 50 visitors per week; (5) eight parking spaces; (6) tours and tasting by appointment only; (7) a marketing plan with 12 activities per year with a maximum of 12 people per event; (8) two auction related events with a maximum of 100 people per event; (9) construction of a special design sewage system, located on a ±62.35 acre parcel on a private drive approximately 1,500 feet northwest of its intersection with North White Cottage Road within an AW (Agricultural Watershed) zoning district. (Assessor’s Parcel #018-121-056). NB

11. OAKVILLE GROCERY / JOSEPH F. PHELPS REVOCABLE TRUST - USE PERMIT REQUEST #02591-UP
CEQA STATUS: Categorically Exempt.
REQUEST: Approval to (1) bring under Use Permit an existing ±2,000 square foot commercial grocery store and a ±350 square foot post office, normally operating from 7 AM to 6 PM seven days per week and which were previously approved by a Certificate of Legal Nonconformity; (2) recognize use of the adjacent ±2,050 square foot farm house on the same parcel for office uses and light storage accessory to the grocery store, an employee break room, assembly of food baskets, and a rest room; and, (3) recognize 55 existing parking spaces. No construction is planned or authorized by this Use Permit. The parcel is located on a one acre parcel on the east side of St. Helena Highway approximately 200 feet north of Oakville Cross Road within a CL (Commercial Limited) zoning district. (APN 031-020-010) 7856 St. Helena Highway, Napa. SL

Other Business: (The following matters, unless otherwise noted, may be heard at any time during the meeting at the discretion of the Chairperson).

12. DISCUSSION OF ELECTION VERSUS ROTATION OF OFFICER FOR 2003

· DETERMINE THE NEW OFFICERS (BY ELECTION OR ROTATION METHOD)

13. CITY REFERRALS: None

14. DISCUSSION OF ITEMS FOR THE APRIL 02, 2003 MEETING

14. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS

· DISCUSS AGENDA ITEMS FOR JOINT MEETING WITH BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

· HANDOUT SUMMARY OF COMMISSION ACTIONS

15. DIRECTOR'S REPORT ON BOARD OF SUPERVISORS' ACTIONS

16. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS

· COMPLIANCE REVIEWS (BORGE, BAYLEAF)

COMMISSION CALENDAR

APRIL 02, 2003 ! Regular Commission Meeting and 9:00 A.M.

Special Airport Land Use Commission Meeting

APRIL 16, 2003 !Regular Commission Meeting 9:00 A.M.

MAY 07, 2003 !Regular Commission Meeting and 9:00 A.M.

Airport Land Use Commission Meeting

MAY 21, 2003 !Regular Commission Meeting 9:00 A.M.

JUNE 04, 2003 !Regular Commission Meeting 9:00 A.M.