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Placer County planners take public comments on draft EIR for Granite View condominiums in Olympic Valley
Summary
At a public meeting, Placer County planning staff and consultants summarized the draft EIR for the proposed 19-unit Granite View condominiums in Olympic Valley and took public comment on parking variances, a proposed underground propane tank in a conservation area, Granite Chief Trail relocation and biological and noise impacts; the 45-day comment period closes April 20.
The Placer County Planning Commission on Thursday opened a public meeting to collect comments on the draft environmental impact report for the proposed Granite View condominiums project in Olympic Valley.
Senior planner Patrick Dobbs said the applicant pared an earlier 52‑unit proposal to a 19‑unit condominium plan totaling 66 bedrooms, with building envelopes confined to roughly 1.31 acres of the 7.82‑acre parcel. The project would provide 61 parking spaces and requests a variance for five spaces under the Olympic Valley general plan standard of one space per bedroom. Dobbs said the draft EIR analyzes impacts across aesthetics, biological resources, hydrology, noise and wildfire and describes mitigation measures; he noted the draft finds temporary construction noise would remain a significant and unavoidable impact.
The meeting focused on several community concerns. Public commenter Diane urged commissioners to investigate how in‑lieu fees and buyouts can allow developers to delay or avoid building the deepest‑income…
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