Zoning administrator approves design review for proposed gas station; environmental-health conditions added to record

The Zoning Administrator on March 20 approved a design review for a proposed gas station and 4,290-square-foot convenience store with a 12-nozzle fuel canopy (PLN24-0156). The applicant is Raman Collan (property owner) and the project includes a future fuel service drive-through and associated parking.

Planning staff noted there was no written correspondence and no public testimony on the item. During the hearing Environmental Health identified an errata to the staff report and read eight additional conditions into the record. Those conditions require, among other items, connection to Placer County sewer and to the Placer County Water Agency for treated water service; maintenance of weekly solid waste collection service meeting Recology requirements and design of the new solid-waste enclosure to Recology standards; food facility plan-check approval and annual permit-to-operate requirements for any food service; grease-trap installation outside the food facility if required; a hazardous-materials plan check before approval of any underground fuel tanks, pipelines or dispensers and required hazardous-materials permits prior to operation; and immediate stop-work and reporting procedures if soil or groundwater contamination is encountered, with disposal of any hazardous-materials wastes in accord with law.

The Zoning Administrator approved the design review based on the findings in the staff report and noted that the project was consistent with an earlier Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Placer Corporate Center business and industrial park; no subsequent CEQA review was required under the cited CEQA guidelines sections. Because there was no public testimony, Jacobson waived the appeal period at the hearing.