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Planning Commission approves lot split at 460 El Cielito Road, grants street-frontage modification
Summary
The Santa Barbara Planning Commission approved a tentative parcel map and a street frontage modification allowing a 4-acre property at 460 El Cielito Road to be split into two lots, with access maintained via an existing driveway to avoid grading through mapped coastal live oak woodland.
The Santa Barbara Planning Commission on Aug. 7 approved a tentative subdivision map and a street frontage modification for a lot split at 460 El Cielito Road, allowing one 4-acre parcel to be divided into a 2.5-acre upper lot and a 1.5-acre lower lot.
The action, moved and seconded during the commission’s public meeting, affirmed staff’s recommendation that the project is exempt from further environmental review under CEQA Guidelines section 15061(b)(3) because no new development is proposed.
Associate Planner Pilar Plummer told the commission the property currently contains two legal residential units built in 1936 — a main house and a gardener’s cottage — and that the proposed split would result in one dwelling unit per new parcel, consistent with the site’s RS-1A zoning and the city’s density standards. Plummer said Lot 1 would be 2.5 acres and Lot 2…
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