The City Council has two options:
- Deny the appeal, upholding the Planning Commission’s action to deny the project, by adopting a resolution based upon direction and proposed findings provided by the City Council; or
- Approve the appeal, reversing the Planning Commission’s action to deny the project. Three resolutions are included in the packet that would approve the alternate version of the project proposed by the Applicant by: (1) certifying the Revised EIR (REIR) and making CEQA findings, (2) approving the Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map (VTSM 9586), and (3) approving the Design Review (DR 21-010). In the alternative, if the Council so desired, it could choose to approve the project as originally proposed at the August 27, 2024 Council meeting.
The proposed project includes two maps for the City Council’s consideration, the Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map (VTSM) originally submitted with this application (“Proposed VTSM”), and an alternate version of the VTSM submitted by the applicant on September 9, 2024 to address the concerns noted at the public hearing on August 27, 2024 (“Alternate VTSM”):
- The Proposed VTSM includes the development of 272 single-family detached residences, two parks, open space, stormwater detention and treatment areas, utility connections, and construction of an internal roadway network on approximately 92.96 acres. As noted in the applicant’s December 3, 2024 email to the City Council (Attachment 17), the applicant has not withdrawn the Proposed VTSM.
- The Alternate VTSM includes the development of 269 single-family detached residences, as well as associated improvements within the project site, including one park, open space, stormwater detention and treatment areas, utility connections, and construction of an internal roadway network on approximately 92.96 acres.
The 36.82 acres of land located north of Sand Creek Road are on a separate legal parcel shown as a designated remainder on both VTSMs and is therefore not proposed to be developed as part of this application. The project site is bounded by Sand Creek Road to the north, State Route (SR) 4 to the east, a single-family residential development (Brentwood Hills) to the south, and the edge of the Brentwood Planning Area and the City of Antioch’s city limits to the west (APNs: 019-082-009 and 019-082-010).
The City prepared a Revised Environmental Impact Report (REIR) for the Proposed VTSM in accordance with the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA, codified at Public Resources Code §§ 21000, et seq., and as further governed by the State CEQA Guidelines, found at 14 CCR §§ 15000, et seq.). Several potentially significant impacts are identified; however, mitigation measures are proposed to reduce those impacts to less-than-significant levels. The Alternate VTSM revisions do not modify this analysis.