NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLACER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION WHERE: Health and Human Services Hearing Room – 11434 B Avenue, Auburn, CA 95603 WHEN: October 16, 2025, 9:00 AM or as soon thereafter SUBJECT: Hope Way Apartments – Design Review Agreement and State Density Bonus Law Concession and Waiver Requests (PLN24-00076), Supervisorial District 3 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing at the above place and time to consider a request from Kris Steward on behalf of the applicant, USA Properties Fund, Inc., for a Design Review Agreement for a proposed affordable housing project that includes the construction of twelve (12) apartment buildings containing a total of 240 residential units and two (2) clubhouse/recreation centers. In addition, the applicant requests nine (9) development standard concessions and waivers pursuant to the State Density Bonus Law (Government Code section 65915(d) and (e)), for which items (1) and (2) are requested as concessions, and items (3) through (9) are requested as waivers, and in the alternative, concessions, as detailed below: 1. To permit resident parking within the 40-foot parking setback from Penryn Road, where the Multifamily and Mixed-Use Design Manual and the Placer County Zoning Ordinance prohibits parking within 40 feet of a front property line. 2. To authorize a deviation from the Horseshoe Bar/Penryn Community Plan design standard by allowing a 23-foot to 36-foot-wide landscape corridor with an eight-foot-wide attached sidewalk, a two-foot graded shoulder on the west side of the sidewalk, and a five-foot wide Class II bikeway, in lieu of the prescribed 30-foot-wide landscape corridor with a meandering equestrian path. 3. To permit the massing of the second and third stories to be consistent with the ground floor, notwithstanding the Multifamily and Mixed-Use Design Manual requirement that the massing of the second and third stories be limited to 80% and 70% respectively of the ground floor area. 4. To allow ninety-six (96) units to feature porches or decks ranging from 64 to 70 square feet, in lieu of the Multifamily and Mixed-Use Design Manual minimum open space requirement of 100 square feet per unit. 5. To permit a wall and fence height combination along the Penryn Road Frontage and southern property boundaries ranging from sixteen feet (six-foot tubular fence atop a ten-foot retaining wall) to nineteen feet (six-foot tubular fence atop a thirteen-foot retaining wall), exceeding the Zoning Ordinance maximum height of twelve feet for combined fence and retaining wall structures. 6. To allow buildings to be three stories in height, deviating from the Horseshoe Bar/Penryn Community Plan limitation of two stories within the Penryn Parkway land use designation. 7. To deviate from the Horseshoe Bar/Penryn Community Plan Design Element, Figure A, which designates a five-lane section for Penryn Road at Penryn Parkway; the project proposes a single-lane roundabout at the intersection of Hope Way and Penryn Road.To permit a deviation from the Horseshoe Bar/Penryn Community Plan Level of Service (LOS) policy, which requires a peak hour LOS of "C." The project would result in an LOS of "D" at the Penryn Road/I-80 Westbound ramp at Boyington Road during peak hours. 8. To permit deviation from the Placer County General Plan and Horseshoe Bar/Penryn Community Plan requirements to allow for construction of an underground stormwater conveyance system to reroute existing onsite flows around the site, thereby eliminating the existing on-site channel and associated 100-year floodplain. The Design Review Agreement and State Density Bonus Law Requests are by-right approvals and ministerial actions pursuant to Government Code sections 65583.2(i) and 65915 and Placer County Code section 17.49.010(E) and, therefore, are not subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). However, to ensure all environmental factors were considered, staff prepared a CEQA Conformity Review and will request a determination that the project is also consistent with the previously certified Housing Needs Rezone Program Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (SCH# 2023100581) and exempt from CEQA pursuant to Public Resources Code section 21083.3. The subject property is located at 3130 Penryn Road in unincorporated Penryn (APNs 043-060-045-000 and 043-060-048-000). The property consists of 11.43 acres and is zoned RM30-Dc (Residential Multifamily 30, Combining Design Scenic Corridor). Accommodations for disabled or non-English speaking residents will be made available upon advance request; please contact the Clerk of the Board at (530) 889-4020, between the hours of 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM on Monday through Friday. You may direct written comments to the Clerk of the Board at 175 Fulweiler Avenue, Auburn, CA 95603 or you may telephone the Clerk at (530) 889-4020. If you challenge the proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the public entity conducting the hearing at, or prior to, the public hearing. Interested persons are invited to attend the hearing through the means provided on the meeting agenda, found at https://www.placer.ca.gov/10070/_2025. All letters, written materials, studies or reports, should be delivered to the Clerk of the Board at 175 Fulweiler Avenue, Auburn, CA 95603, or emailed to Planningcommission@placer.ca.gov. The Planning staff contact for this project is Kally Kedinger-Cecil who can be reached at (530) 745-3034 and kkedinge@placer.ca.gov. Planning Commission Clerk of the Board Planning Division: Kally Kedinger-Cecil, Supervising Planner IPL0277210 Oct 3 2025