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Council approves Renfrew Villa rezoning and 54-lot tentative map with mitigated negative declaration
Summary
Gilroy City Council adopted a mitigated negative declaration and approved rezoning of 37.54 acres to Residential Hillside and a tentative map to subdivide the site into 54 single-family lots; the project preserves roughly 47% of the site as permanent open space around a riparian corridor and requires private-street HOAs.
The Gilroy City Council approved a package of land-use actions for the Renfrew Villa residential project, a 37.54-acre site north of Miller Avenue that will be rezoned from A-1 (Agricultural) to Residential Hillside (RH) and tentatively mapped into 54 single-family lots.
Staff recommended, and the council adopted, a mitigated negative declaration (MND) prepared for the project after city consultants identified potential impacts and mitigation measures related to biological resources, cultural resources, greenhouse gas emissions/vehicle miles traveled (VMT), hazards, and transportation. The project includes a preservation area of about 17.7 acres — roughly 47% of the site — that contains a riparian corridor and pond associated with Babbs Creek; that area…
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