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Item 11 Additional Material posted 7-7-20M EMQRAN DLJ M CityofPoway ADDITIONAL MATERIALS (Agenda Related Writings/Documents provided to City Council or Staff after distribution of the Agenda Packet for the July 7, 2020 Council Meeting) DATE: TO: FROM: CONTACT: SUBJECT: July 7, 2020 Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council Faviola Medina, CMC 1=-'-(858) 668-4535 or fmedina@poway.org Item 11 -Pre-Development Conference 20-001, A Request to Amend the Old Coach Golf Estates Specific Plan to Allow a Resort Hotel with Up to 140 Rooms at The Maderas Golf Club Attached please find correspondence received after the agenda posting deadline. Reviewed/Approved By: Assistant City Manager 1 of 2 Reviewed By: Alan Fenstermacher City Attorney Approved By: ~ cris'ne City Manager July 7, 2020, Item #11 From: To: Subject: Date: Austin Silva aqendadocs resource ADDITIONAL MATERIAL RN: Maderas pre-development conference Tuesday, July 7, 2020 9:21:07 AM I received the email below concerning Pre-Development Conference 20-001 for tonight's agenda. Austin Silva, AICP Senior Planner City of Poway 113325 Civic Center Drive I Poway, CA 92064 858-668-4658 From: Marijo Van Dyke <marijovan50@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 5:34 PM To: Austin Silva <ASilva@poway.org> Subject: Maderas pre-development conference Hi Austin. I'm contacting you because I was a planner at Poway for a long time and was on staff when the original Old Coach project was first approved. I left Poway in order to take a promotion as a senior planner with the State of California OPR. Maderas has been expanding under the environmental findings as part of the overall Old Coach project. If you go back to the original EIR and look closely at the mitigation measures which were required in that document, you'll see that there was a requirement for the golf course project to provide some on-site housing for groundskeepers and/or other service workers. No such housing was ever built. No off site provision for worker housing was made either. This new expansion of the Maderas project to include a hotel with 140 rooms, further illustrates the need for on-site employees' housing. When you write the report and generate the required findings to support approval, it's not really truthful to state that the project satisfies all mitigation requirements. I would urge a subsequent EIR be required for this project. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I'd like to help. Jim Lyon was my mentor and he would remember this as well. With regards, Marijo Van Dyke AICP 2of2 July 7, 2020, Item #11