Valley Vineyards Tract

Latest Information on Valley Vineyards Tract Homes

This page was last modified on Saturday, July 10, 2010 10:27 AM

Update as of July 7, 2010

The Valley Vineyards has submitted a Draft Initial Study documentation for proposed tract homes called Valley Vineyards. The County's department of Regional Planning has requested the Town Council's inputs. John Allday will be presenting updated status at the July 12 , 2010 Town Council meeting.

If you have an opinion please attend the Town Council meeting and share your thoughts with the town Council and the CSD committee or provide your inputs to Bill Elliott Bill_and_Pam_Elliott@prodigy.net or Alice Wollman alicewollman@roadrunner.com

Click on documents below for more details:

Initial Study Pages 1 through 10

Initial Study Pages 11 through 28

Plot Plan (Scanned in, sorry)

VTTM

Information pertaining to the status of the development as indicated by Jodie Sackett, Land Divisions Section, County of Los Angeles Department of Regional Planning:

OPEN SPACE: The current position of the County Planning Department is that clustering projects provide separate dedicated open space lots, and that dedicated open space within hillside management projects cannot be used for commercial (vineyard) purposes. The project discussion to open space dedication and wine vineyards neglects the other more important concerns of the project.

DENSITY: The development’s density (32 units above the midpoint density threshold, which is one-quarter of the entire project), lack of a satisfactory clustering design (development proposed throughout the entire project area, and less than half of the proposed lots actually reduced in size), excessive quantity of proposed grading (now 4.4 million cubic yards of total combined cut and fill; very different from the 500,000 cubic yards indicated on the subdivision application you signed on February 12, 2007). There is an over-disturbance and/or elimination of slopes exceeding 50 percent (Lot Nos. 5, 6, 7, 16, 18, 19 24, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 56, 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 83, 95, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 116 (36 lots total, or nearly one-third of the entire project).

ERROR BY DEVELOPER: The issue of the project’s density is critical, as it seems that in your initial slope density analysis dated December 5, 2006, there was a significant error in calculation (the incorrect low density threshold of “1 dwelling unit per 2 acres” was used instead of the actual “1 dwelling unit per 5 acres” required within the 0-25 percent slope range). This caused Valley Vineyard to arrive at “80 dwelling units” for the low density threshold amount instead of “40 dwelling units” -- an error of precisely 100 percent.

COUNTY RECOMMENDATIONS & CHANGES: Since the initial filing of your project on February 13, 2007, staff has made several efforts to formally communicate the key project issues to the Developer. To date, the proposed project remains virtually unchanged and none of staff’s recommendations that pertain directly to the size, scale, intensity and impacts of this project have been considered.

Valley Vineyards' Web Site http://www.valleyvineyards.net/index.html

Development Committee Review of Traffic Study

Vineyard Tract Response to the Proposed Leona Valley Community Standards District

Valley Vinyards Subdivision Regional Planning Documentation

There are a few documents to big to post to this Web site right now, contact the Town Council or Valley Vineyards for a copy.

/Documents/3rd TTM 2008-1-16.pdf

/Documents/3rd TTM-Cup.pdf

/Documents/Bouquet Canyon Striping Plan 1.pdf

/Documents/Bouquet Canyon Striping Plan 2.pdf

/Documents/Bouquet Canyon Striping Plan 3.pdf

/Documents/Conceptual Vinyard Greenbelts.pdf

/Documents/CVR Ltr TTM + CUP 3rd Application.pdf