Sandpiper Golf Course Renovation and New Clubhouse Project

Sandpiper Golf Course Renovation and New Clubhouse Project

Generally, the project involves: 1) the demolition of an existing 9,305 square foot (sf) clubhouse and restaurant and parking lot and replacing it with a new, 37,179 sf, three-level clubhouse and restaurant (2 stories above ground and basement). The restaurant would provide 95 seats indoors and 138 seats on an outdoor dining terrace, an increase of 101 seats compared to the existing restaurant. The club house restaurant would be open to the public for dining and events; 2) modifications to and routing enhancements of the existing 18-hole golf course, including replacing the existing golf course turf with drought tolerant landscaping design (reduction of approximately 50 percent of irrigated turf); 3) landscaping and irrigation improvements; 4) demolition, repair, upgrade, and/or modernization of the existing maintenance buildings, trailers, and sheds. This includes replacing the existing 7,555 sf maintenance facility with a slightly smaller 7,476 sf maintenance facility consisting of two structures; 5) replacement of an existing comfort station; 6) construction of a 695 sf café adjacent to the existing historic Barnsdall Rio Grande Gas Station; 7) adaptive reuse and restoration of the historic Barnsdall Rio Grande Gas Station to provide seating and bicycle amenities for the Rio Grande Coffee Shop; 8) restoring portions of Devereaux Creek to its natural condition and flow; 9) undergrounding the existing overhead powerlines adjacent to Hollister Avenue; 10) making trail and landscape improvements along the site’s Hollister Avenue frontage; 11) making several coastal access improvements including easements/dedications along Sandpiper’s beach and roadway frontages; 12) dedicating a portion of Bell Canyon as a conservation easement; 13) updating the General Plan Figure 4-1 regarding environmental sensitive habitat based on a site specific habitat assessment; 14) requesting a Sphere of Influence change for Goleta West Sanitation District (SWSD) to connect some facilities to GWSD system; and 15) requesting the City to vacate 22,007 sf of Right-of- Way along a portion of the site’s frontage for continued use as golf course private parking lot pursuant to sections 8300 et. seq of the Streets and Highways Code. The majority of the new clubhouse would not exceed the OS/AR Zone’s 25-foot height limit; however, a minor portion of the main roof structure would have a maximum height of 29 feet and the passenger elevator structure would have a maximum architectural projection height of 33 feet. The proposed project would redesign the parking areas to support the golf course and associated uses to provide a total of 165 on-site parking spaces. There would be 141 spaces associated with the club house area, 10 spaces for the maintenance facility, and 14 spaces for the Rio Grande Coffee Shop. Grading would require approximately 86,500 cubic yards of soil cut, and 56,000 cubic yards of soil fill. After compaction and shrinking, the remaining soil (30,500 CY) would be distributed around graded areas to achieve the proposed golf course design. No net import or export of cut or fill would occur.

Goleta

Santa Barbara

Southern California

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Coastal Commission (CCC), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Marin Region 7 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), 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 Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Coast Region 3 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW)

California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW)

Recreational (Renovations of existing golf course/historic bldg; newclubhouse)

Site Plan, Use Permit, Coastal Permit

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Coastal Zone, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mandatory Findings of Significance, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire