HomeMy WebLinkAboutGeneral Plan Update - Diamond Bar 11-2019CATHAY VIEW DEVELOPMENT
701 S. San Gabriel Boulevard, Suite D, San Gabriel, California 91776
November 8, 2019
Grace Lee
Senior Planner
City of Diamond Bar
21810 Copley Drive
Diamond Bar, CA 91765
generalplan@diamondbarca.gov
Re: Diamond Bar’s General Plan Update – Redesignation of Parcel
Dear Ms. Lee:
We are the owner of approximately 12 acres of land located at the southwesterly terminus of
Crooked Creek Road (APN: 8714-02-003). It has come to our attention that the City is changing
the land use designation of the rest of our block, but is excluding our lot. We request that the
City change the land use designation of our parcel, or at least the southerly developable portion
of it, from Low Density Residential to Low Medium Density Residential to match the change
being made to the rest of our street. We previously made this request of our planner.
We have been working with the City on our residential development plan for the past year or so.
We have an application and file open under Tract 54081. Most recently we had a City mandated
public outreach meeting to discuss our plans. We have spent a lot of time and money to create a
project that the City and neighbors will accept.
Then we were informed last week that now we will need to do a General Plan Amendment to
revise our land use to conform with the proposed General Plan that has not even been adopted
yet. We were told that it is required to conform to our neighbors’ land use designation which is
being changed with the City proposed update. Previously, we were able to develop our project
under the existing land use and zoning. The exclusion of our property makes no sense to us.
We hope that this request is acceptable to you and please let us know if you have any questions
or comments.
Sincerely,
CATHAY VIEW DEVELOPMENT LLC
cc: Robert Chiang
Bryan Avilla
J. Robert Meserve, Esq.
Ian Harvey