Grants Awarded

Orinda Community Foundation sponsors two main fundraisers annually- direct mail solicitation and NorCal Kids Triathlon.
Every dollar raised is put back into our community to
"enhance the quality of life in Orinda."

Our thanks to the
Orinda Community Foundation!!

Orinda Community Foundation Board members (left to right) Ted Urban, Dick Burkhalter, Sue Severson, Mark Roberts, Carol Penskar,  Richard Stanaro, Richard Westin

OCF Grant Recipients

Open for Entries Starting March 1

Inaugural festival to showcase "six-minutes or less" films by local filmmakers of all ages

Lights! Camera! Action!
Are you a local filmmaker or an aspiring movie director or producer?
If so, please enter the first-ever
Lamorinda Arts Council's
Lamorinda ShortDocs Film Fest starting on March 1, 2016

The festival consists of workshops and a judged contest designed to not only promote local filmmaking, but also to encourage novice filmmakers of all ages to learn how to produce documentary films.

For more information about the Lamorinda ShortDocs Film Fest competition
and to enter, go to http://www.lamorindaarts.org/shortdocs

Planning Department

 

PLANNING COMMISSION 

2/23 MEETING - ACTION MINUTES

Continued Public Hearings -

• Title 17 Zoning Amendments: A public hearing to consider a recommendation by the Planning Commission to the City Council concerning a City initiated proposal to revise certain zoning regulations in Title 17 of the Orinda Municipal Code and Zoning Map. These changes are intended to make the City's Zoning Code consistent with the Fifth Cycle Housing Element of the City's General Plan (adopted by the City Council on April 21, 2015) and to comply with State and Federal law. 
  (Staff recommendation is that the Planning Commission, recommend to the City Council, adoption of the proposed changes to Title 17 as outlines in the Staff Report).
  ACTION: This item was approved by majority (6-1) vote, with Commissioner Roberts dissenting.  

o   New Public Hearings -

• • 25A Orinda Way: A public hearing to consider Design Review, Commercial Use Permit, Exception, and Variance applications for an approximately 18,600 square-foot, mixed-use retail and office building and required parking, on an approximately 19,456 square-foot parcel that is currently vacant. The Design Review and Commercial Use Permit applications are required for new construction in the Downtown Commercial Zoning District. The exception application is for building encroachment into the front, side and rear property setbacks, and the Variance is for proposed parking that is less than required by Orinda Municipal Code Sec. 17.16.4. The project is two stories with ground floor retail and restaurant uses and second story office uses, and includes rooftop parking. The roofline of the structure is 35 feet in height with architectural projections that extend up to 46 feet in height. A total of 69 parking off street spaces are propose, with 26 parking spaces on the second floor, and 43 parking spaces on the rooftop level. (Staff recommendation is for the Planning Commission to approve the Design Review, Commercial Use, Exception and Variance Permit applications, and adopt the Statement of Official Action) ACTION: This item has been continued to the regularly scheduled, March 22^nd meeting of the Planning Commission.

• • Taylor Morrison Lots (six) on Wilder Road: A public hearing to consider six Design Review applications for six new two-story, single-family residences on Lots 205, 206, 207, 208, 209 and 210, and two Elevated Deck Permit applications on Lots 208 and 209 in the Wilder Subdivision. (Staff recommendation is to approve the Design Review and Elevated Deck Permit applications, and adopt the Statements of Official Action) ACTION: The Design Review and two Elevated Deck Permit applications were approved with additional conditions on lot 208 and 209. Approval was given by a unanimous (6-0) vote. Commissioner Adamson was recused from vote as she has a conflict of interest (she represents another developer at Wilder).

• • Davidon Lots (four) on Coffee Berry Lane at Wilder: A public hearing to consider Design Review applications for new single-family residences on Lots 103, 105, 109 and 112 and one Elevated Deck Permit application as part of a new single-family residence on Lot 109, in the Wilder Subdivision. (Staff recommendation is to approve the Design Review and Elevated Deck Permit applications and adopt the Statements of Official Action) ACTION: The Design Review and Elevated Deck Permit applications were approved by a unanimous (6-0) vote. Commissioner Adamson was recused from vote as she has a conflict of interest (she represents another developer at Wilder). 

•  Items from the Planning Director -
  • Discussion on story pole requirements: ACTION: This item was continued to the next regularly scheduled, March 8^th meeting of the Planning Commission.

 

• NEW PROJECTS APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED -
  •    34 La Vuelta: Design Review Permit application has been received for a new 3,402 square feet (adjusted) single-family residence on a 16,117 square feet vacant lot. The project also involves an elevated deck permit and a tree removal permit. 

• ZONING ADMINISTRATOR UPDATES -
  •    ZA Postings:
    • 252 Camino Sobrante - A second unit permit application has been received to convert the upper level of an existing, detached, two-story garage located in the rear yard into a second unit. The proposed second unit is 660 square feet and will include one bedroom.
    • 209 Camino Pablo - Elevated Deck and Exception permit applications have been received for the construction of two additions, totaling 992 square feet (929 + 63), and replacement of an existing elevated deck (1,472 square feet) with a new, reduced elevated deck (1,096 square feet). Part of the proposed addition will encroach into the front-yard setback, as measured from the roadway dedication - not the property's front property line, which is actually beyond (further away from the proposed addition) the roadway dedication.