SCH Number 2025060904

Project Info

Title

The Orchards at Gill Estates

Description

Lifetime Communities (Applicant) proposed Annexation (ANX) 2023-03, Rezone/Prezone (REZ) 2023-03, General Plan Amendment (GPA) 2023-02, Tentative Parcel Map (TPM) 2024-01, and Tentative Subdivision Map (TSM) 2023-03 pertaining to two (2) parcels (APNs 020-120-06 and 020-120-03S) that total approximately 40 acres located on the south side of West Nielsen Avenue between North Madera Avenue and North Del Norte Avenue. • ANX 2023-03 would annex two (2) parcels from the County of Fresno to the City of Kerman. • GPA 2023-02 would amend the Kerman 2040 General Plan land use designation for portions of APN 020-120-06 from the General Commercial land use designation to the Mixed-Use land use designation (8.74 acres) and from General Commercial to Medium Density Residential (0.9 acres). • REZ 2023-03 would pre-zone the Medium Density Residential land use designation portion of the Project Area (30.39 acres) to the Smart Development Combining District – Residential – minimum 3,500 square feet (SD-R-3.5) zoning district and the Mixed-Use land use designation portion of the Project Area (8.74 acres) to the Mixed-Use zoning district. The proposed zoning districts would be consistent with the underlying planned land uses. • TPM 2024-01 would split the Project Area into two (2) parcels and one (1) remainder, including a 28.35-acre “Parcel 1” that would accommodate TSM 2023-03 (“Project Site”), an 8.74-acre “Parcel 2” on the east portion of APN 020-120-06 with no development proposed at this time, and a 2.04-acre “Remainder” on the northwest corner with an existing single-family residence. • TSM 2023-03 would subdivide Parcel 1 of TPM 2024-01 (28.35 acres) into 172 single-family lots (6.1 dwelling units per acre) that range in size from 3,690 square feet to 5,914 square feet, in addition to five (5) outlots. Outlot A (6,862 sf.) and Outlot B (5,040 sf.) are proposed along the south of the subdivision for public landscaping purposes. Outlot C (66,926 sf.) is proposed in the center of the subdivision as a park. Outlot D (2,280 sf.) is proposed along Nielsen Avenue for public landscaping purposes. Outlot E (34,217 sf.) is proposed on the northeast corner of the site as a stormwater basin. The Project also proposes an internal network of local streets and sidewalks with one (1) point of ingress/egress to Nielsen Avenue, one (1) point of ingress/egress to the northern property (APN 020-120-11), two (2) points of ingress/egress to the west, two (2) points of ingress/egress to Parcel 2, and one (1) point of ingress/egress to the south of the Project site. Currently, a road is being built along the southern boundary of the site that will provide access of the south ingress/egress to Madera Avenue.

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