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The Danville Planning Commission is poised to consider options for undoing a previously approved subdivision after years have elapsed since that approval with no forward progress on development and improvement plans by the property owners.
The Planning Commission originally approved a subdivision agreement to transform two parcels at 805 and 813 La Gonda Way into a five-lot major subdivision more than 10 years ago in February 2015, then a one-year extension in 2017. A formal application for the final map was submitted in 2018, followed by several improvement and grading plan and stormwater revisions, with the final map and subdivision improvement agreement approved by the Town Council in 2022.
However, no improvements to the parcels were implemented by the expiration of that agreement in November 2024, with the Planning Commission now looking to reverse the earlier subdivision agreement.
“Because the owners of the property have not sold any of the lots nor installed any of the subdivision improvements and have shown no meaningful progress towards doing so, Town staff began to research options to void the subdivision approval and return the SD 9382 – Merger and Re-subdivision 2 April 22, 2025 property to the pre-existing two lots,” Development Services Coordinator Fred Korbmacher wrote in a staff report for the upcoming meeting.
Those two options consisted of a reversion to acreage or a merger and re-subdivision, the latter of which is being recommended by town staff.
“After review, it was determined that the merger and re-subdivision was a better solution because it allows for the lot line between what will be the two lots to be set in a location that takes into account building code issues while establishing the original two lots,” Korbmarcher wrote. “This is necessary because, since the time that the tentative map was first approved, the owners expanded the existing home on the property to cross what had been the property line. The new two lot configuration would be modified from the original to provide appropriate setbacks from the property lines.”
The Danville Planning Commission is set to meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday (April 22). The agenda is available here.
In other business, commissioners are set to consider approving a development plan and variance request that would allow for the construction of a new 866-square-foot office to an existing office building at 20 Oak Ct., which would result in two fewer parking spaces than required.
