Approval of the San Juan Oaks proposed golf and housing resort
by the county Planning Commission was delayed Wednesday night.
At the Commission’s Jan. 7 meeting, members recommended that the
County Board of Supervisors approve the General Plan amendment and
zone changes, the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and a statement
of considerations for the project. The Commission held back on its
scheduled approval of the vesting tentative map Wednesday because
they can’t approve it until the Board first approves what the
Commission sent them Jan. 7.
Approval of the San Juan Oaks proposed golf and housing resort by the county Planning Commission was delayed Wednesday night.
At the Commission’s Jan. 7 meeting, members recommended that the County Board of Supervisors approve the General Plan amendment and zone changes, the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and a statement of considerations for the project. The Commission held back on its scheduled approval of the vesting tentative map Wednesday because they can’t approve it until the Board first approves what the Commission sent them Jan. 7.
“They continued it. They took no action – the rationale being they cannot take action until the Board takes action,” said Scott Fuller, general manager of San Juan Oaks Golf Club and the head of the project.
The project would consist of building two more golf courses, a 200-room resort-hotel and 186 lots for low-income housing.
The hotel could bring in $800,000 a year in revenue to the county. It would bring in more tourism, and still preserve open space and agriculture, Fuller said in an earlier interview.
The Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing Feb. 3 at 1:30 p.m. on the project, Fuller said. If the Board approves the first piece of the project, it will come back to the Commission for approval of the tentative map and its conditions. That meeting will be Feb. 18.
The tentative map, which the Commission can approve on its own without supervision by the Board, includes more than 200 conditions that are needed to implement the project’s development.
The project coincides with the county’s implemented 1-percent growth cap by building the 186 homes during a 10-year period.
Environmental amenities encompassed in the project’s plan include installing a water treatment plant, placing 1,100 acres into a perpetual wildlife preserve and reserving 60 acres of prime agricultural land restricted only to agriculture.
The Feb. 3 Board of Supervisors meeting and the Feb. 18 County Planning Commission meeting is at the Board Chambers, 481 Fourth St.
