Planning commission approves 10-lot subdivision on Phoenix Avenue after neighbor concerns, adds privacy and frontage conditions

The Sacramento County Planning Commission on Monday approved a tentative subdivision map to divide 3.54 acres at 8840 Phoenix Avenue in the Fair Oaks community into 10 residential lots, but added conditions intended to address neighbor concerns about drainage, privacy and future house massing.

The commission unanimously approved the tentative subdivision map, a special development permit to allow a private cul-de-sac rather than a public street connection, and a design-review finding, with amendments requiring the developer to enter into a deferred street-frontage improvement agreement recorded with the county, plant screening/shade trees along the site perimeter where feasible, and subject Lot 6 and any lot that will require a retaining wall to a nondiscretionary staff-level design review prior to building permits.

The applicant, whose team described the project as “an infill court” surrounded by existing single-family homes, sought to subdivide two parcels into 10 lots served by a private cul-de-sac. Christian Baltazar, associate planner and the project’s lead staff presenter, told the commission the plan “proposes a private cul de sac that…