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Home My WebLink AboutTC Agd Pkt 2011-11-16 (2)Page 1 of 1 Diane Crane lacopi From: Dan Watrous Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:41 AM LAT-E MAIL # ~1 To: alITC (Tiburon Town Council) Cc: Peggy Curran; Scott Anderson; Diane Crane lacopi Subject: FW: Alta Robles late mail and the late mail gets later... Daniel M. Watrous Planning Manager Town of Tiburon (415) 435-7393 From: Mark H Goldstein [mailto:mgoldstein@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 10:28 PM To: Dan Watrous Cc: Connie Cashman Subject: Alta Robles-meeting 11/16 Attn: Tiburon Planning Commission ECEIVE, NOV 16 2011 TOWN CLERK TOWN OF TIBURON I received notice today of your meeting tomorrow re Alta Robles and regrettably will not be able to attend. After reviewing the newly revised plans, I felt compelled to forward to a quick note stating how disappointed I was with the continued nips and tucks the developer, his architect, his lawyers and the rest of his team have put to their design. While infinitesimally addressing the important issue of views and ridge lines, the scale, scope and bulk remains as always---undeniably massive. I think the local community has spoken, which The Ark has echoed, that this is the most concrete one could possibly put on Paradise Drive, scarily setting precedent for other properties (including the Winters property) to do the same, force a double-widening of Paradise Drive and a forever loss of what brought many of us to Tiburon in the first place. As a Paradise Drive resident, I am frightened by this project knowing that the road is no longer going to be the only reason I went to the other side of the hill and that our generation of leadership and vision might let this happen. Thank you for your consideration. Mark H Goldstein 3650 Paradise Drive Tiburon 11/16/2011 LATE MAIL # Sri Tiburon, November 15, 2011 Re: Alta Robles development project Dear Mayor and Council Members, H D E C E ~ V E NOV . 5Z011 TOWN CLERK TOWN OF TIBURON LSA updated the vegetation constraints map in 2010. Nevertheless, the applicant continues to use outdated material as a development plan basemap to incorrectly demonstrate that lot/house locations are outside environmentally constrained areas (serpentine bunchgrass grassland/habitat for special-status plants). Although this has been pointed out previously, the applicant has not corrected his submissions. Please ask the applicant to revise the Alternate 6, November 2011 constraints map to reflect the newest data so that you can make informed decisions. Thank you. Eva Buxton Conservation Chair California Native Plant Society Page 1 of 1 Diane Crane lacopi L I AT E~-MA-I'L",#- .1441 From: Dan Watrous Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 3:52 PM To: alITC (Tiburon Town Council) Cc: Peggy Curran; Scott Anderson; Diane Crane lacopi Subject: FW: Alta Robles Project More Alta Robles late mail... Daniel M. Watrous Planning Manager Town of Tiburon (415) 435-7393 From: Jeff Appleman [mailto:jappleman@balglobal.com] Sent: Monday, November 14, 20113:49 PM To: Dan Watrous Cc: Connie Cashman; Jeff Appleman Subject: Alta Robles Project NOV H D E C E ~ V E 14 2011 TOWN CLERK TOWN OF TIBURON Dear Mr. Watrous, As a long time resident of 108 Hacienda Drive, I write to urge approval of the latest incarnation of the Alta Robles Project. The Rabins have been amazingly forthcoming in their efforts to satisfy the evolving requirements of the Town and as I have previously written, the multitude of benefits that this project will provide make the approval and advancement of this project overwhelmingly well advised. Sincerely, Jeff Appleman Jeff Appleman Partner, Attorney at Law* rn L L.J BAL Corporate Immigration Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP Attorneys at Law 353 Sacramento Street, Suite 1300 San Francisco, CA 94111 DIRECT 415-743-9610 1 FAX 415-398-1808 1 EMAIL Jeff@balglobal.com I WEB www.balglobal.com *Admitted in California. Practice limited to federal immigration law. Confidentiality Notice: This message may contain confidential client communications. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please forward the message back to the sender and destroy the original message (and any copies). Thank you. 11/14/2011 Pagel of 2 Diane Crane lacopi _ _ L,A,,T,, E MA, I ~ L, # - A~Tw / From: Dan Watrous Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 11:25 AM To: alITC (Tiburon Town Council) Cc: Peggy Curran; Scott Anderson; Diane Crane lacopi; Ann Danforth Subject: FW: Alta Robles hearing @ Tiburon Town Council November 16 2011 Late mail for Alta Robles... IU) V1 2 Daniel M. Watrous Planning Manager NO 14Z011 U Town of Tiburon (415) 435-7393 TOWN CLERK TOWN OF TIBURON From: Sandra Swanson [mailto:swanson.sandra548@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 11:23 AM To: Dan Watrous Cc: Connie Cashman Subject: Alta Robles hearing @ Tiburon Town Council November 16 2011 November 14, 2011 The applicant, in response to the Tiburon Town Council's request to move house locations plus residential use areas off the ridgelines, has complied with a new proposal to move house locations away from the ridgelines, but has ignored moving residential use areas off the ridgelines. Seven of the extremely large residential use areas would extend across the ridgelines, permitting "improvements" to be constructed on ridgelines. These improvements could include the guest parking areas, swimming pools and terraces, which would require leveling of the ridgelines, plus fences and accessory buildings, which would erase the ridgelines' visibility. Clearly, moving only the house locations off the ridgelines does not meet the Town Council's objectives of compliance with the Tiburon 2020 Plan which calls for keeping ridgelines open and unobstructed. TIBURON 2020 Town of Tiburon General Plan OSC-11: Development and the construction of buildings and yard improvements associated with development, including landscaping and trees, shall be set back a minimum of 150 horizontal feet of either side of Tiburon Ridge. OSC-12: Development and the construction of buildings and yard improvements associated with development, including landscaping and trees, shall be set back a minimum of 50 vertical feet of either side of Tiburon Ridge, measured from the highest point of the roofline of a structure or tree. PSC-33 + 34: Moving the lot locations from the ridgelines into the oaks does not "protect and preserve trees to the maximum extent feasible." Moving Lot 13 further to the north increases its already looming visibility to the 30 households of Seafirth. The lot should be eliminated. 11/14/2011 Page 2 of 2 In response to the Council's request to reduce floor areas to conform more closely with the neighborhoods that surround the Alta Robles property, all but two of the houses still exceed 6,500 square feet. This does not conform to the Paradise Drive Visioning Plan, an important legal planning tool for this area, nor to the General Plan. We would like to see story poles for the new proposal and it's possible that the Council will want to see an outline of the ridgeline locations of the residential use areas. We previously requested visuals of the houses once the proposed removal of 261 trees has been accomplished. It would be good to learn how many more trees are now proposed for removal. Reducing the number of houses and the size of the houses proposed would be in keeping with the General Plan and the features of this highly constrained property. Thank you. SJS Best, Sandra J. Swanson 2 Seafirth Lane Tiburon CA 94920 11/14/2011