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The San Ramon Planning Commission is set to talk about a proposed residential development near the northwest side of the city Tuesday night.
Property owners have submitted a conceptual review application for their proposal to build 43 single-family homes, with minimum lot sizes of 12,500 square feet, on a 198-acre site located about 400 feet northwest of the Bollinger Canyon and Crow Canyon roads intersection, according to city staff.
The site — known as the Hsientein property, or the Chang property — is just outside the city limits but within the city’s Northwest Specific Plan area and the city’s urban growth boundary.
Tuesday night’s discussion gives the proponents an opportunity to hear from planning commissioners and residents early on in the process, according to Debbie Chamberlain, city planning services manager.
“This study session will serve as a forum for the project applicant to introduce the proposed plan to the Planning Commission and public as well as to receive input on their conceptual site plan. No decisions concerning the project will be made at this meeting,” she wrote in her staff report.
Among the key talking points for Tuesday, according to Chamberlain, is whether the commission would support allowing grading outside the urban growth boundary for remedial stabilization on the northern side of the property.
She also asked the commissioners to weigh an alternative plan suggested by the property owners to relocate a two-acre park south of the proposed entrance and reduce street widths to accommodate private roads and a possible gated entry.
The 43-home proposal is the only discussion item for the commission meeting, scheduled to start at 7 p.m. Tuesday inside the city council chambers at 2222 Camino Ramon.
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More houses, people, cars. Where’s the water coming from?
Greedy land owners, shame on you.
San Ramon used to be a sleepy little town. Growth wasn’t a bad thing 20 years ago, but we have reached our limit with traffic, congestion, road rage, water use, and population. Does the City really need the tax base? Please stop building, growth has become detrimental to our City.
Last year, ABAG mandated that 76% of all new housing construction in San Ramon shall be for low income people. Can the developers really make money building low income housing?
Yet another bunch of fools who don’t take the time to learn what the RHNA numbers put out by ABAG mean.
This project has been planned and reviewed for years. I don’t know how developers can make any money when it takes five to ten years to even start building something.
Real Estate values go up and down. Right now they are up, but by the time this project is ready for sale, they could be down again. That’s why there are so many bankruptcies in this business. And then there’s the “I’ve got mine, now shut the door” people, as we can see from some of the comments above.
Roz
San Ramon council has opted for over 6,000 new houses in the hills to the west and along Crow Canyon Road.
Let’s just say 2 or 3 cars per house will produce at the least 12,000 cars on 680 WHICH GETS MORE AND MORE CONGESTED each month. And the new houses havent gone up YET!!!
What right do these local councils have to continue jamming more and more into this narrow valley which much beauty yet. But losing its quality of life rapidly.
Councils are to be providing and protecting their local environment as well as citizens AND NOT SEEK GREATER TAX BASES when the geographic area is very narrow compared to many places.
Councils continue approving thesedevelopments THEN turn around and declare they have to increase taxes to improve services and roads when roads are rarely improved currently.
When does this vicious cycle stop?
When do citizens get relief from Councils hidden agendas?
When do taxpayers stop being badgered and penalized from hidden costs built into developments?
More lots is more tax base for Cities and Councils, but also more need for services hidden down the road for the new developments to be paid buy all local citizens.
The hidden down the road costs become giant burdens to all, new and old residents.
Can this be prevented? Stopped? Controlled?
All city councils MUST keep beauty, peaceful, secure areas in the valley!!! Less seeking of increased tax bases and more seeking of what the inherent quality is NOW. Not to become concerned AFTER the fact.
The barn animals are almost out of the barn, and when all gone, NEVER TO RETURN!!!
STOP THE LUST FOR MONEY, CONTROL, AND INCREASED TAX BASES.