preview

North City Specific Plan Essay

Decent Essays

Staff was notified of a land owner’s interest in selling a 485-acre property that is an undeveloped portion of the North City Specific Plan (Specific Plan) area. The property is zoned Mixed Use-Urban (MU-U), and Mixed Use-Neighborhood (MU-N). The owner of record is Katrina Steinberg-Heinrich.

The subject property is vacant north of Interstate 10, east of Date Palm Drive, and is off-reservation.

INFRASTRUCTURE REVIEW
The Specific Plan area requires an extensive and well-planned infrastructure system to be designed at the expense of the property owners and developers of the property. For this reason, we will review some of the major development constraints and financial burdens that will be required to consider such an acquisition of …show more content…

This easement is already valid and recorded on the property. It is depicted on the attached exhibit and shown in yellow. This particular transmission line is under consideration for a major expansion if approved the 220kV system will be upgraded to a 500kV Transmission line utilizing the existing SCE easement area. Additionally, and in order to serve all future proposed new developments in the Specific Plan area, a 12kV distribution line running along (underground) the proposed Valley Center Boulevard is a condition to the landowners and future developers. In addition to the upgraded transmission line and the future requirement to underground a 12kV distribution line, the North City Specific Plan is recommending that a substation is constructed to acquire power from the major transmission line and then distribute the power to the new development within the Specific Plan area.

Gas Systems
The Southern California Gas Company (Gas Company) is the distributor of natural gas for the Specific Plan area. The Gas Company has three major interstate high-pressure gas lines running through the Specific Plan area. The easement widths vary over these high-pressure gas lines from 16.5 to 100 feet. No buildings are permitted to be constructed within these easements.

Street Improvements
Finally, another major improvement that is conditioned on the subject property is the new proposed

Get Access