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Planning Commission recommends council certify Final EIR, approves five resolutions for Spring Lake Village East Grove expansion amid neighbor opposition
Summary
After presentations from staff, the EIR consultant and the applicant, public commenters raised concerns about tree removal, habitat and evacuation at the Spring Lake Village East Grove site; the commission recommended council certify the Final EIR and approved five entitlements by 6-0 votes (with one recusal).
The Santa Rosa Planning Commission on March 26 recommended that the City Council certify the Final Environmental Impact Report and approved five related resolutions for the Spring Lake Village East Grove project, a proposed 32-unit expansion of the Spring Lake Village continuing-care retirement community.
Staff described the project as an expansion that would add 32 independent senior units (14 cottage-style units and an 18-unit three-story villa), a community building, and on- and off-site improvements. The proposal requires a conditional-use permit for a community care facility with more than six beds, a hillside development permit, rezoning of 225 Los Alamos Road from rural residential to a plan-development (PD) district, and a PD policy-statement text amendment.
City staff and consultant GHD summarized the CEQA process: a Draft EIR circulated in 2021 evaluated the originally proposed project and a design alternative; the applicant and staff later refined…
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