The City Council Wednesday will check up on El Toro Brewing
Co.
’s (ETBC) progress in turning the old police building into a
brew pub and put a final stamp of approval on zoning changes and an
environmental protection plan for The Math Institute’s Golf
Course.
The City Council Wednesday will check up on El Toro Brewing Co.’s (ETBC) progress in turning the old police building into a brew pub and put a final stamp of approval on zoning changes and an environmental protection plan for The Math Institute’s Golf Course.
It will also consider whether to move ahead on Venture Corp.’s plan to build a small medical center where doctors will own their own offices and amend planned use for the old Saint Louise Hospital property at Cochrane Road and U.S. 101 to replace a 100-unit assisted living facility with a 6,050 square-foot day care center and a 40-70 unit congregate care facility, which is a care level between independent living and assisted living.
The new zoning would also allow a 94-unit assisted living facility and a 13,560 square-foot commercial office building.
ETBC’s plans to pay $650,000 for the police building hit a bump in the road recently when backers were unable to secure a loan from Heritage Bank because, ETBC’s Geno Acevedo told the city, of the bank’s change in leadership. They will look elsewhere for the loan and are asking council for a 90-day extension.
The golf course mitigation plan is a 32-page chart listing what the problems are (water runoff, degradation of habitat, erosion, water quality), together with what The Institute must do, how to comply, which agency will keep tabs on the compliance and the timeline for monitoring or mitigation.
Council will also be asked to approve a zoning change from open space to planned unit development, allowing The Institute to build a structure to house the American Institute of Mathematics. Institute golfers, including John Fry of Fry’s Electronics who is a partial owner of the property on Foothill Avenue, have been able to play under a Temporary Use Permit. The TUP will end if and when council approves the EIR Wednesday.
Planning Manager Jim Rowe said he would have to check with the city attorney about whether play must stop Thursday. The ability to play the course extended only until April 2005 or whenever the EIR was certified, which may be Wednesday. Because course managers have been working to put safeguards in place to protect threatened animals and riparian (creekside) habitat, the right to play could be extended, Rowe said.
