Tulip 4-Lot TPM and Grading Exemption - PL24-0348 & PL24-0349
Summary
SCH Number
2026050629
Public Agency
City of Escondido
Document Title
Tulip 4-Lot TPM and Grading Exemption - PL24-0348 & PL24-0349
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
5/15/2026
Document Description
Approval of a Tentative Parcel Map to subdivide 2 parcels totaling 1.38 acres into four (4) lots with five (5) grading exemptions for proposed Lots 1, 2, and 3, with a General Plan Designation of Suburban (S) and a Zoning Designation of Single-Family Residential (R-1-10; 10,000 square-foot minimum lot sizes) ("Project"). The Project includes on-site improvements related to grading, and stormwater, and off-site improvements including but not limited: sidewalk, curb, and gutter, and other standard frontage improvements.
Contact Information
Name
Melissa DiMarzo
Agency Name
City of Escondido
Job Title
Assistant Planner II
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
William Yen
Agency Name
Bill Yen & Associates, Inc.
Job Title
Applicant
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Address
Phone
Location
Cities
Escondido
Counties
San Diego
Regions
Southern California
Cross Streets
south of W. Valley Pkwy, west of W. Grand Ave, north of Brenna Hills Pl, east of N. Upas St
Zip
92025
Total Acres
1.38
Parcel #
232-170-03-00 and 232-170-04-00
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
CEQA Guidelines 15332 (In-Fill Development Projects)
Reasons for Exemption
a. The Project is consistent with the applicable general plan designation of Suburban (S) and all applicable general plan policies as well as with applicable zoning designations and regulations for Single-Family Residential (R-1) properties.
b. The proposed development occurs within city limits on a project site of no more than five acres substantially surrounded by urban uses.
c. The Project site has no value as habitat for endangered, rare or threatened species based on the biological resources report provided for the Project.
d. Approval of the Project would not result in any significant effects relating to traffic, noise, air quality, or water quality as the Project screened out of Climate Action Plan requirements, the traffic scoping agreement screened the Project out of further traffic study, and the initial study and acoustical analysis provided for the Project identified no significant impacts relating to noise, air quality, or water quality.
e. Based on the Utilities and Fire Department reviews and approvals, and the will-serve letters from the school districts provided for the Project, the site can be adequately served by all required utilities and public services.
Further, the Project also does not trigger any exceptions to categorical exemptions identified in CEQA Guidelines section 15300.2. in that:
a. Location. The Project utilizes a Class 32 categorical exemption that is not subject to the considerations listed under Classes 3 (New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures), 4 (Minor Alterations to Land), 5 (Minor Alterations in Land Use Limitations), 6 (Information Collection), and 11 (Accessory Structures), which are qualified by consideration of where the project is to be located - a project that is ordinarily insignificant in its impact on the environment may in a particularly
sensitive environment be significant. Therefore, these classes are considered to apply all instances, except where the project may impact on an environmental resource of hazardous or critical concern where designated, precisely mapped, and officially adopted pursuant to law by federal, state, or local agencies.
b. Cumulative Impact. The are no cumulative impacts that would occur due to successive projects of the same type in the same place over time as any potential impacts to the site have already been addressed by the General Plan Environmental Impact Report, and the subdivision is permitted by the General Plan and zoning designation subject to a Tentative Parcel Map approval.
c. Significant Effect. There are no unusual circumstances surrounding the Project that would result in a reasonable possibility that the activity will have a significant effect on the environment because the Project initial study and biological resources report provided for the Project identified no impacts and the proposed subdivision is consistent with the General Plan designation of the site. Further, the Project site is surrounded by residential development in an urbanized area of the City.
d. Scenic Highways. The Project would not result in damage to scenic resources, including but not limited to, trees, historic buildings, rock outcroppings, or similar resources, within a highway officially designated as a state scenic highway, as the nearest adjacent highway, Interstate 15 (1-15) is not officially designated as a state scenic highway.
e. Hazardous Waste Sites. The Project site is not located on a site which is included on any list compiled pursuant to Section 65962.5 of the Government Code.
f Historical Resources. The Project would not cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource as the Project site is vacant and does not contain a historic resource.
Additionally, pursuant to Escondido Zoning Code Section 33-922 of Article 47 (Environmental Quality), none of the conditions outlined below further disqualify the use of an exemption:
a. Plant or animal species, which disturb, fragment or remove such areas defined by either the California Endangered Species Act (Fish and Game Code Section 2050 et seq.), or the Federal Endangered Species Act (16 U.S. C. Section 15131 et seq.) as sensitive, rare, candidate, species of special concern, endangered, or threatened biological species or their habitat (specifically including coastal sage scrub habitat for the California Gnatcatcher);
Per the biological resources report provided for the site, no special status species or habitat exist on the site.
b. Archaeological or cultural resources from either historic or prehistoric periods;
Per the initial study provided for the site, no archaeological or cultural resources have been identified on the site.
c. Stream courses designated on U.S. Geological Survey maps;
No stream courses are present on or in the vicinity of the Project site.
d. Hazardous materials, unstable soils or other factors requiring special review.
No hazardous materials, unstable soils or unusual circumstances requiring additional review have been identified on the Project site.
County Clerk
San Diego
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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