REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Public Hearing: Action to Approve Amendments to the proposed 22 Unit Single Family Residence Project at 1957 Pruneridge Avenue to Allow for the Installation of Natural Gas Stovetop Appliances.
Report
BACKGROUND
On February 19, 2025, SCS Development Company ("the applicant") filed an application (File No. PLN25-00073) to amend Condition of Approval P23 of the approved Planned Development (PD) (File No. PLN22-00505) to construct 22 single-family detached two-story residences with a private street and associated on- and-offsite improvements on the 2.47-acre site.
The subject property is located on north side of Pruneridge Avenue, approximately 250 feet west of Winchester Boulevard (see Attachment 1 for a vicinity map). The project site was previously developed with a church and an associated office/school building. On March 19, 2024, the City Council approved a rezone of the subject property from Public, Quasi-Public, and Public Park or Recreation (B) to Planned Development (PD) to allow the construction of the residential development with 22 single-family detached two-story all-electric residences, private street and associated on- and-off-site improvements, and a Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map to subdivide the property into individual for-sale lots and four common lots for use as a utility corridor, vehicle access, landscape open space and bioretention areas. Fifteen percent of the total number of units (or three units) are required to be affordable housing units.
As approved, the units would have been considered "all electric", as all appliances would have only been supplied by electric power, thus meeting the City's previous Reach Code energy requirements. As proposed, the modified project would retain all the project design features of the approved project, except that the project would no longer be supplied by 100-percent electric power and would allow for natural gas connections to operate stovetop appliances. The o...
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