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Bakersfield Planning Commission approves 245‑lot subdivision and adopts mitigated negative declaration
Summary
The Bakersfield Planning Commission on Feb. 5 adopted a mitigated negative declaration and approved Vesting Tentative Tract Map 7386, clearing the way to subdivide 58.29 acres at Morning Drive and Paladino Drive into 245 single‑family lots amid public concern about cumulative air and habitat impacts.
The Bakersfield Planning Commission on Feb. 5 voted to adopt a mitigated negative declaration under the California Environmental Quality Act and approve Vesting Tentative Tract Map 7386, allowing subdivision of 58.29 acres at the southeast corner of Morning Drive and Paladino Drive into 245 single‑family residential lots.
Staff Associate Planner Veronica Martinez told commissioners the project, proposed by San Joaquin Engineering on behalf of the property owner Emlen LLC, would create mostly 5,000‑square‑foot lots (with lot sizes ranging from about 5,000 to 12,670 square feet), two landscape lots, a drainage basin and a remainder parcel, and that the initial study found no significant environmental impacts after proposed mitigation for air quality, biological resources, cultural resources and traffic.
The project drew public opposition that focused on cumulative environmental impacts. Gordon Knipp, vice chair of the local Sierra Club chapter,…
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