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City of Rancho Palos Verdes APPROVED AS
Planning Commission PRESENTED
Regular Adjourned Meeting July 13, 1976
June 24, 1976
The meeting was called to order at 7 : 39 p.m. in the Palos Verdes Penin-
sula Unified School District Building, 30942 Hawthorne Boulevard, by
Chairman Shaw.
PRESENT: Blue, Rosenberg, Trefts, Shaw
ABSENT: McTaggart
Also present was Director of Planning Sharon W. Hightower.
GRADING Glenn Shaffer, of Cayman Development
Company, made the following comments
regarding grading: (1) Corrective
grading should be allowed, both by
reason of natural causes and illegal dumping; (2) With regard to grading
for a total tract vs. grading the individual lots later, it is better to
do all the rough grading (including corrective) and as much of the other
as possible initially. (3) The ordinance should retain flexibility with
regard to padding vs. working into the slope. (4) The Commission should
consider judging the beginning contours to finished contours as the
amount graded.
The Commission discussed the rough draft prepared by staff, with the de-
cision that on lots which fall entirely in the 35% and above slope cate-
gory, only minimal grading should be allowed, not to exceed the footprint
of the house and access. For lots which partially fall into the 35% slope
category, grading should be discouraged; however, grading for the foot-
print and access should be allowed.
Various formulas were discussed, including: A X 7 . 5 = 0 exemption
slope ( . 00)
It was agreed that: (1) the area permitted to be graded per chart in
Section 9667-E, except that an exemption for access and structure foot-
print shall be allowed. (2) The exemption shall be 3000 sq. ft. or as by
the formula, whichever is greater, and shall not be additive to that in
the formula of "E".
Various volume formulas were discussed, including:
0 X 2 = X . 074
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It was agreed that the above formula was too low.
ANTENNA REGULATIONS Director Hightower recommended July 15
for a public hearing on proposed
changes to the City' s antenna regu-
lations. It was the consensus of the
Commission to hold the hearing at that time.
ADJOURNMENT At 10: 20 p.m. it was moved, seconded,
and carried to adjourn to Thursday,
July 8, 1976 at 7 : 30 p.m. in the
Council Chambers , 30942 Hawthorne Blvd. ,
to discuss grading.