Meeting
County of Ventura
 
Resource Management Agency
Planning division
 
July 30, 2020
 
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1. 8:30 A.M. HEARING CALL TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL
3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
4. PUBLIC COMMENTS – Time set aside for comments by citizens on matters not appearing on the Agenda (Time limit per item – five minutes)
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR JULY 16, 2020  RECOMMENDED ACTION
Approve, as presented
6. CASE NUMBER PL19-0040 – Applicant, AT&T The applicant requests that a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) be granted to authorize the installation and operation of a wireless telecommunications facility mounted on a replacement wood utility pole in the public right-of-way for a 10-year time period. RECOMMENDED ACTION Approve staff recommendations PROJECT LOCATION: Adjacent to 6640 Old Pacific Coast Highway (Mussel Shoals) APNs: 000-0-000-000 CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) DOCUMENT: Exempt, CEQA 15302 and 15303 CASE PLANNER: Thomas Chaffee EMAIL: [email protected]
7. CASE NUMBER PL20-0052 – Applicant, County of Ventura The project consists of zoning text amendments to Article 7, Section 8107-5 of the NCZO and Article 5, Section 8175-5.7 of the CZO, to modify requirements for discretionary permitting for certain new oil and gas exploration and production operations, and to address the applicability of the County’s oil development regulations, including applicability of vested rights. In particular, the zoning amendments would uniformly require discretionary permitting approval for all new oil and gas exploration and production operations, or components thereof, including but not limited to the drilling of new wells, the re-drilling or deepening of existing wells, and the installation of new permanent structures that are not replacing existing structures, where such new development is not specifically described in and authorized by an active County discretionary land use permit. (This discretionary permitting requirement would not apply to repair and maintenance activities.) The zoning amendments would also clarify that the County’s oil development operational standards and design guidelines generally apply to all existing oil and gas exploration and production operations, except where application of such standards would impair a vested right. The zoning amendments would also limit the amount of new development that can be authorized by a single Zoning Clearance and would make other minor revisions to clarify and obtain consistency between analogous provisions of the NCZO and CZO. RECOMMENDED ACTION Approve staff recommendations PROJECT LOCATION: The proposed zoning ordinance amendments would apply to land located in the following zones in the unincorporated area of Ventura County where the oil and gas production and exploration land use is authorized by use permit under the Ventura County Non-Coastal Zoning Ordinance (NCZO) and Ventura County Coastal Zoning Ordinance (CZO): Open Space (OS), Agricultural Exclusive (AE), Rural Agricultural (RA), Rural Exclusive (RE), Industrial Park (M1), Limited Industrial (M2), General Industrial (M3), Coastal Open Space (COS), Coastal Agricultural (CA), Coastal Commercial (CC) and Coastal Industrial (CM). CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) DOCUMENT: The proposed project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15308. CASE PLANNER: Mindy Fogg EMAIL:[email protected]
8. DISCUSSION:
a) Report by the Planning Director on Board Actions and Other Matters.
b) Items the Planning Commission may wish to introduce.
9. MEETING ADJOURNMENT Dave Ward, AICP, Director Ventura County Planning Division Materials related to an item on this Agenda submitted to the Planning Commission after distribution of the agenda packet are available on the Planning Division website at https://vcrma.org/planning-commission subject to staff’s ability to post the documents prior to the meeting. Persons who require accommodation for any audio, visual or other disability in order to review an agenda, or to participate in a meeting of the Planning Commission per the American Disabilities Act (ADA), may obtain assistance by requesting such accommodation in writing addressed to the Clerk of the Commission, 800 South Victoria Avenue, Ventura, CA 93009-1740 or telephonically by calling (805) 654-2478. Any such request for accommodation should be made at least 48 hours prior to the scheduled meeting for which assistance is requested. If you challenge the action taken on the items in this agenda in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the Ventura County Planning Division at, or prior to, the public hearing. SPECIAL NOTICE: The Planning Division offers an E-mail Public Hearing Notification Service that allows interested stakeholders, applicants, and citizens to receive e-mail notification when a new Planning Commission Hearing is posted. You may subscribe to this service by going to the Planning Division website at https://vcrma.org/planning-commission and then click on Subscribe to our email notification service for these hearings