Comment Letters Received During Appeal
Public Noticing Period
1 Andy Olson
From: Bob Lasher <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2024 3:32 PM
To: Andy Olson
Subject: FW: Harvard project
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Subject: Harvard project
1. Does the city actually need another 7200 square feet of office/retail space? Drive around and see how many open and ‘for lease’ spaces there are.
2. What will happen to all the small businesses that are currently occupying space in the proposed area? Some of them have been there for a number of years.
3. Parking! With 30 proposed one bedroom apartments, how many parking places have been proposed for this project. The residential units should have 50 to 60 parking places assigned to them. What about the commercial customers and employees of the businesses that will occupy the building. How much parking will be allotted to IHOP. That business can be busy with parking for its customers. What about ADA compliant (handicapped) spaces? Whatever formula the city uses to determine the quantity of those spaces required is severely flawed. Check the handicapped parking situation near the Olive Garden restaurant.
4. Are there tenants ready to occupy the commercial spaces or will these join the growing list of vacant spaces? How long will these remain vacant?
I am opposed to this project For the above reasons.
Regards,
Robert Lasher
(310) 741‐7049
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August 12, 2024
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VIA EMAIL [email protected]
Mr. Andy Olson, Project Planner
City of Santa Clarita
Community Development Department
23920 Valencia Boulevard, Suite 302
Santa Clarita, CA 91355
Dear Mr. Olson:
NOPH Response to Appeal 24-003 and Appeal 24-004 regarding Master Case 21-086:
Minor Use Permit 21-012, Architectural Design Review 21-015, and Development Review 21-011 This is in reply to your notice, which was received by the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District (District) on August 9, 2024. Previous comments submitted by the District in correspondence dated June 4, 2024, (copy enclosed) to your agency, still apply to the subject project. • All information concerning District’s facilities and sewerage service contained in the document is current.
If you have any questions regarding this letter, please contact me at (562) 908-4288, extension 2708, or at [email protected].
Very truly yours,
Shirly Wang
Annexation and Will Serve Desk Coordinator
Property Management Section
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Enclosure
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June 4, 2024
Ref. DOC 7236030
VIA EMAIL [email protected]
Mr. Andy Olson, AICP, Associate Planner
City of Santa Clarita
Community Development Department
23920 Valencia Boulevard, Suite 302
Santa Clarita, CA 91355
Dear Mr. Olson:
NOPH Response to Master Case 21-086:
Minor Use Permit 21-012, Architectural Design Review 21-015, and Development Review 21-011 This is in reply to your notice, which was received by the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District (District) on May 30, 2024. The proposed project is located within the jurisdictional boundary of the District. We offer the following comments regarding sewerage service:
1. The project proponent is advised that the subject project is located less than half a mile from the District’s Saugus Water Reclamation Plant, a publicly owned wastewater treatment plant.
2. The wastewater flow originating from the proposed proj ect will discharge to a local sewer line, which is not maintained by the District, for conveyance to the District’s “District #26 Interceptor Trunk Sewer”, located in a private right-of-way west of Bouquet Canyon Road north of Cinema Drive. The District’s 33– inch diameter trunk sewer has a capacity of 16.3 million gallons per day (mgd) and conveyed a peak flow of 5.8 mgd when last measured in 2018.
3. The District operates two water reclamation plants (WRPs), the Saugus WRP and the Valencia WRP, which provide wastewater treatment in the Santa Clarita Valley. These facilities are interconnected to form a regional treatment system known as the Santa Clarita Valley Joint Sewerage System (SCVJSS). The SCVJSS has a capacity of 28.1 mgd and currently processes an average flow of 18.6 mgd.
4. The expected increase in average wastewater flow from the project, described in the notice as 8,874 square feet of commercial space and 30 residential apartment units, is 7,564 gallons per day. For a copy of the Districts’ average wastewater generation factors, go to www.lacsd.org, under Services, then Wastewater Program and Permits and select Will Serve Program, and click on the Table 1, Loadings for Each Class of Land Use link.
5. The District is empowered by the California Health and Safety Code to charge a fee to connect facilities (directly or indirectly) to the District’s Sewerage System or to increase the strength or quantity of wastewater discharged from connected facilities. This connect ion fee is used by the District for its capital facilities. Payment of a connection fee may be required before this project is permitted to discharge to the District’s Sewerage System. For more information and a copy of the Connection Fee Information Sheet, go to www.lacsd.org, under Services, then Wastewater (Sewage) and select Rates & Fees. In determining the
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impact to the Sewerage System and applicable connection fees, the District will determine the user category (e.g. Condominium, Single Family Home, etc.) that best represents the actual or anticipated use of the parcel(s) or facilities on the parcel(s) in the develo pment. For more specific information regarding the connection fee application procedure and fees, the developer should contact the District’s Wastewater Fee Public Counter at [email protected] or (562) 908-4288, extension 2727.
6. In order for the District to conform to the requirements of the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA), the capacities of the District’s wastewater treatment facilities are ba sed on the regional growth forecast adopted by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). Specific policies included in the development of t
he SCAG regional growth forecast are incorporated into clean air plans, which are prepared by the So uth Coa
st and Antelope Valley Air Quality Management Districts in order to improve air quality in the South Coast and Mojave Desert Air Basins as mandated by the CAA. All expansions of District’s facilities must be sized and service phased in a manner that will be consistent with the SCAG regional growth forecast for the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Ventura, and Imperial. The availabl e
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apacity of the District’s treatment facilities will, therefore, be limited to levels associated with the approved growth identified by SCAG. As such, this letter does not constitute a guarantee of wastewater service, but is
to advise the applicant that the District intends to provide this service up to the levels that are legally permitted and to inform the applicant of the currently existing capacity and any proposed expansion of Distri
ct’s facilities.
If you have any questions, please contact the undersigned at (562) 908-4288, extension 2708 or at [email protected].
Very truly yours,
Shirly Wang
Customer Service Specialist
Facilities Planning Department
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