{"id":9278,"date":"2012-06-08T06:59:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T13:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=9278"},"modified":"2012-06-08T11:38:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T18:38:42","slug":"planning-commission-to-get-one-more-look-at-kensington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=9278","title":{"rendered":"Planning Commission To Get One More Look at Kensington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted 6\/8\/12<\/em> &#8211; The Planning Commission agreed last night to hold a special meeting on Monday, June 11th to consider the Kensington Assisted Living Facility project. \u00a0Developer Fountain Square Development West had expressed concerns that failure to move the project forward would not allow the City Council to adequately review the project and determine the verbiage in time to have \u00a0a ballot measure submitted to the County Clerk for the November election. \u00a0FSDW had indicated that they might want the Commission to vote yes or no at last night&#8217;s meeting<\/p>\n<p>However, several commissioners were concerned that they had not had time to adequately review changes to the Specific Plan that had been submitted just hours before the meeting. \u00a0The Specific Plan is one of four items the Commission was considering, along with a Conditional Use Permit to construct and operate an assisted living facility, a Municipal Code Text amendment to establish an Overlay Zone for the property, and the Initial Study\/Mitigated Negative Declaration to evaluate the proposed project&#8217;s effects on the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The Developer had agreed to strike out several parts of the Specific Plan that Development Services Director Danny Castro had stated were of concern to City Staff, probably the most troubling of which (for staff and the Commissioners) \u00a0was a formula for defining a dwelling unit that would have considered each bed in the facility to be .25 of a dwelling unit, which would have put the project in compliance with Measure V. \u00a0Commissioner Vandevelde stated that this was the kind of measuring stick that he wanted to see, but wasn&#8217;t sure that the ratio was what it should be, and that it needed more study. \u00a0Other Commissioners also saw it as a concern, and the developer decided to pull it off the table.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the concessions by the Developer, several Commissioners stated that they needed more time to review the Specific Plan, and in an effort to provide that time without requiring a vote at this meeting, the Commission agreed to meet in special session on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted 6\/8\/12 &#8211; The Planning Commission agreed last night to hold a special meeting on Monday, June 11th to consider the Kensington Assisted Living Facility project. \u00a0Developer Fountain Square Development West had expressed concerns that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}