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Planning commission approves large Saddleback Road home despite heavy grading; construction controls added
Summary
The commission approved site-plan review and conditional-use permits for a 12,000 sq ft home at 80 Saddleback Road with conditions requiring construction vehicles to remain on the property; commissioners and the civil engineer discussed extensive cut-and-fill and visual massing, and staff cited a CEQA exemption in the packet.
The Rolling Hills Estates Planning Commission approved draft resolution number 2025-10 to allow construction of a new 12,000-square-foot main house with related accessory structures at 80 Saddleback Road, a project that drew detailed discussion about grading, cut-and-fill and measures to limit neighborhood impacts.
Planning staff described the project as a site-plan review and conditional-use permit application (no variances) for a property of about 4.82 acres with two building pads. The project package listed a proposed main house, a roughly 2,000-square-foot pool, a 790-square-foot cabana, trellises near the pool and tennis court, a roughly…
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