Report Prepared by: Valeria Renteria, Associate Planner, Development Services Department
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SUBJECT: Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map #25-0010 ("Virginia Smith Trust (VST) Phase 1C") and Environmental Review #25-0035 (Categorical Exemption) initiated by applicant. Board of Education of the County of Merced, Trustee, property owner. This application involves a request to subdivide approximately 75.57 acres into 66 lots. The subject site is generally located on the east side of Lake Road, approximately 5,000 feet north of E. Yosemite Avenue, within Planned Development (P-D) #80, with a General Plan designation of Virginia Smith Trust Specific Plan (VST SP); *PUBLIC HEARING*
ACTION: Approve/Disapprove/Modify
1) Environmental Review #25-0035 (CEQA Section15162 Findings and Categorical Exemption)
2) Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map #25-0010
RECOMMENDATION
Planning staff recommends that the Planning Commission approve Environmental Review #25-0035 (CEQA Section 15162 Findings and Categorical Exemption) and Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map #25-0010 - "VST Phase 1C " (including the adoption of the Draft Resolution) subject to the conditions in Exhibit A and the findings and considerations in Exhibit C of Draft Resolution #4176 at Attachment A of this report ("Planning Commission Staff Report #25-1069").
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SUMMARY
The subject site is located in northeast Merced, on the east side of Lake Road, approximately 5,000 feet north of East Yosemite Avenue (see Location Map at Attachment B).
The Virginia Smith Trust Specific Plan would be developed in two phases (Phase 1 and Phase 2). Together, these two phases would have approximately 4,000 residential units, 44 acres of commercial (or approximately 856,200 square feet of commercial space), 78 acres of parks, 25 acres of open space and trails, and other ancillary uses.
Phase 1 has five subphases which includes Phases 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, and 1E. Per the Development Agreement (Attachment H) and the VS...
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