Pacific Wildlife Care Minor Use Permit

Pacific Wildlife Care Minor Use Permit

A request by Pacific Wildlife Care for a Minor Use Permit to allow for the construction of a new wildlife care facility consisting of an approximately 7,390-square-foot 2-story building, 1,304 square feet of exterior covered storage, and 34,183 square feet of exterior animal enclosures (kennels) on a 10.34-acre (gross) parcel (9.3-acre net; Figure 1 and Figure 2). The project would be constructed in two phases. Phase 1 includes construction of the first floor of the animal care building (4,640 square feet), the exterior covered storage, and 9,898 square feet of exterior animal enclosures. Phase 2 would complete the second story of the animal care building (2,750 square feet), an additional 24,285 square feet of exterior animal enclosures, and a creance field, which is a flight area for rehabilitating raptors (Figure 3). There is no current timeline for implementing Phase 2. The maximum height of the animal care building would be 27.5 feet. Approximately 360,254 square feet (8.3 acres) of the site would be landscaped or remain as open space. The new facility would be constructed on the northwest corner of the Buckley Road and Esperanza Lane intersection with access via a direct access driveway on Buckley Road. The project would result in 7.2 acres of site disturbance including 6,800 cubic yards of cut and 6,500 cubic yards of fill. The proposed project is within the Agricultural land use category in unincorporated San Luis Obispo County and is located at the northwest corner of Buckley Road and Esperanza Lane, on the southern edge of the City of San Luis Obispo and approximately 0.5 miles west of the San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport. The site is in the San Luis Obispo Sub Area North of the San Luis Obispo Planning Area of unincorporated San Luis Obispo County.

San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo

Southern California, Unincorporated

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 5 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Coast Region 3 (RWQCB), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water

Other (Wildlife Care Facility)

Use Permit

Air Quality, Biological Resources, Transportation