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After two rounds of voting and a lengthy debate, a 27-home development won permit approval earlier this month from the Encinitas Planning Commission.<\/p>\n

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Repeatedly declaring that they were voting \u201cunder duress,\u201d the planning commissioners said they could not meet the state\u2019s high legal standard to reject the controversial project, but said they wished they could, given the number of homes the developer was proposing to squeeze into the hilltop site along the south side of Encinitas Boulevard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there really is a choice,\u201d said Commissioner William Brent Whitteker, who initially voted no and then changed that to yes after he heard more about the state regulations.<\/p>\n

He encouraged the project\u2019s opponents to appeal the Planning Commission\u2019s decision to the City Council.<\/p>\n

The project, known as Ocean Bluff, is proposed to go on 4.6 acres of a 7.2-acre site that overlooks Encinitas Boulevard just west of the Encinitas Self Storage business. Twenty-four of the 27 homes will be market-rate ones, while the other three will be set aside as low-income housing. While the proposed site is along Encinitas Boulevard, its access point is off Ocean Bluff Way. That\u2019s because there\u2019s a steep drop-off between the site\u2019s developable section and Encinitas Boulevard.<\/p>\n

The vote, which approved the project\u2019s permits and certified its environmental impact report, was 4-0, with Commission Chair Steve Dalton recusing himself. Dalton\u2019s architectural company hasn\u2019t worked on this project, but has worked on other projects with Rincon Homes \u2014\u00a0 this project\u2019s developer \u2014 Dalton said before leaving the room at the start of the item.<\/p>\n

Vice Chair Robert Prendergast, who then took over running the meeting, ultimately made both of the two motions to approve the development plans, but said he considered the project \u201can egregious use\u201d of the state\u2019s density bonus law, which grants developers exemptions from some city building standards if they agree to set aside some of their proposed homes for low-income people. Rincon Homes is receiving exemptions from a range of city requirements, including sidewalk building, roadway design and lot setback rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not a community member when you\u2019re sticking (this onto) the community,\u201d Prendergast told Rincon representative Jonathan Frankel after Frankel mentioned his company\u2019s ties to North County and noted that this was its fifth housing project in Encinitas.<\/p>\n

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Frankel had stressed during his presentation that the project meets the state\u2019s Density Bonus Law requirements.<\/p>\n

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The project\u2019s three low-income homes will have the same number of bedrooms as the 24 market-rate ones and they will look like the other homes, with similar fixtures and exteriors, he said.<\/p>\n

Yes, he said in response to commissioners\u2019 criticisms, the lot sizes for the low-income homes are far smaller than the market rate ones, but state law doesn\u2019t require them to be the same size.<\/p>\n

Frankel also said his company had made a good faith effort in recent months to minimize the project\u2019s impacts on its neighbors. Rincon Homes will meet five of the seven requests put forward by one adjoining property owner, including landscaping and fencing changes to resolve privacy concerns, he said.<\/p>\n

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About a half-dozen people provided public comment on the plans, mentioning stormwater runoff, traffic and visual impact concerns.<\/p>\n

Carol Wood, whose mother owns a home on Requeza Street, jokingly mentioned that the Planning Commission\u2019s first meeting on the proposed development plans in November was a \u201cfun-filled, six-hour meeting\u201d and thanked the commissioners for their dedication. She said she would like additional documents from the developers, including a new storm drainage study and documentation about whether an endangered bumble bee is nesting on the site.<\/p>\n

Walter Frandsen, whose mother owns a home that\u2019s surrounded on two sides by the proposed development, said his family is still in negotiations with the developers over landscaping and privacy concerns, but the talks have been going well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been refreshing to be able to deal with them,\u201d he said as he listed some of the changes that the developers have agreed to since the November commission meeting.<\/p>\n

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