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Encinitas planning commission approves Martin Residence with front-yard and cantilever conditions
Summary
The Planning Commission approved a two-story bluff‑top residence at 444 Neptune Avenue with variances for reduced front and one side-yard setbacks and a waiver of a third driveway parking stall, subject to conditions including a required adjustment to garage placement and limits on bluff cantilever eaves.
The Encinitas Planning Commission on a 3-2 vote approved the Martin Residence project, a proposed two‑story single‑family home at 444 Neptune Avenue that required multiple variances and a coastal development permit.
Staff recommended approval of the project, including a reduced front yard setback and a reduced interior side yard setback, and the commission adopted that recommendation with two amendments: (1) a condition memorializing the memo that limits second‑story cantilever roof eave encroachment into the bluff setback to the permitted 20% and (2) a requirement that the garage/laundry wall be shifted westward toward the bluff‑setback line to the extent feasible so the rear wall touches the setback line if possible.
Takoma Eastland, Associate Planner for the City of Encinitas, told commissioners that the proposal (case Multi0052182022) would build a 2,560‑square‑foot two‑story house with a 546‑square‑foot attached…
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