Commission approves minor general plan amendment for Hartman Ranch, continues PAD rezoning after landowner concerns

The Planning and Zoning Commission approved GPA 24‑03, a minor general plan amendment to change roughly 9 acres of Hartman Ranch from a commercial designation to Master Plan Community, and continued the related Hartman Ranch PAD rezoning (PAD 24‑07) while the applicant and neighboring landowners work toward resolving outstanding issues.

Derek Shearer, Planning Division, described the applications as a combined request: a minor general plan amendment for about 9 acres and a PAD major amendment for roughly 193 acres. Shearer said the PAD amendment modernizes a legacy Hartman Ranch PAD to the current PAD zoning and that the requested Master Plan Community designation would align the general plan map with the approved PAD zoning for the site.

Julie Vermillion of CBL Consultants, the applicant’s representative, said the mapping discrepancy likely was a GIS/mapping error and that the proposal retains single‑family residential intent: “we believe that it was just a mapping error on the the general plan GIS itself,” she said, and that the PAD update will…