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Planning commission continues large Copper Ridge annexation, environmental review
Summary
The commission continued the public hearing on the Copper Ridge proposal—an 83.61-acre development tied to annexation of roughly 141.85 acres and a 650-unit tentative tract—after a third-party reviewer and an outside advisor raised substantive concerns about the mitigated negative declaration; the commission voted unanimously to continue the item.
The Planning Commission on Oct. 14 continued the public hearing and decision on the Copper Ridge project, which proposes annexation, a general-plan amendment, pre-zoning, a tentative subdivision map, a planned unit development and certification of a mitigated negative declaration (MND No. 25-73).
Staff described the project scope: development of 83.61 acres into a residential subdivision containing 650 dwelling units (300 multi-family and 350 single-family), a 5.45-acre neighborhood mixed-use site, and the annexation of approximately 141.85 acres into the City of Hanford from Kings County jurisdiction. Staff said the proposal includes pre-zone requests to RM (medium-density residential) and MXN (neighborhood mixed use), a tentative tract (945) with an overall density of about 8.31 units per gross acre, and an estimated potential population increase of roughly 2,002 people using an average household size of 3.08 persons per household.
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