Pacifica Planning Commission approves site permit for Rockaway/Bayview home with strengthened geotech and stormwater conditions

Pacifica's Planning Commission voted Dec. 1 to approve a site development permit (PSD-83818) and tree permit (TP424) for a proposed single-family residence on an approximately 26,055-square-foot lot near Rockaway Beach Avenue and Bayview Road.

The motion, made by Commissioner Ferguson and seconded by Commissioner Redfield, passed 4-0 with one abstention. The commission adopted a package of conditions that tighten geotechnical oversight, require hydraulic calculations demonstrating the project will not increase post-development runoff (held to a 100-year-storm standard), mandate preconstruction surveys and a maintenance agreement for stormwater treatment measures, and require an improvement agreement with security to ensure completion of retaining-wall and slope-related work.

The project before the commission is for a two-story single-family residence, described in staff materials as about 3,100 square feet (the motion reads approximately 3,180 square feet), with a 668-square-foot, three-car garage on a 26,055-square-foot vacant lot. Staff told commissioners the design meets applicable zoning standards and that two protected Monterey pines (one of which staff identified as dead) would be removed with a 2:1 replacement requirement (four new Monterey pines).

Why it mattered: Neighbors urged the commission to delay or deny the application, citing late mailed…