Time extension granted for Green Canyon North tentative map

The San Diego County’s Department of Planning and Development Services has approved a time extension for the Green Canyon North tentative map.

The decision became final April 13 and extends the map’s expiration date to Sept. 12, 2023. An April 3 preliminary decision by department director Mark Wardlaw was subject to a hearing by the county’s planning commission which allowed a member of the public or a planning commission member to request a full hearing on the preliminary decision, but the lack of an objection April 13, made the time extension final and effective immediately.

In September 2014, the planning commission approved a tentative map to subdivide 34 acres on the northeast corner of Winter Haven Road and Sunnycrest Lane into 22 residential lots ranging between one and 3 acres and two road lots. The conditions of the project include widening the north side of Winter Haven Road along the property frontage to 20 feet of paved surface and a ten-foot decomposed granite pathway. Sunnycrest Lane, which is a private street, will be widened to 24 feet.

A tentative parcel map becomes a final map after all conditions of the tentative map, other than those for which permits cannot be issued until a final map is recorded, are fulfilled. A final map is required for grading and building permits, although the conditions of a final map include a grading plan. The standard county procedure is to require the final map within three years of the tentative map approval, although the deadline to record the final map may be extended. If an application for a time extension is filed before the map’s expiration, the owner is not in default if the extension is granted after the expiration date.

The map would have expired Sept. 12, 2017, in the absence of a time extension. A request for a time extension was filed June 28. Because the conditions for the Green Canyon North final map include off-site public road improvements and the purchase of off-site biological mitigation lands, Wardlaw deemed a 6-year time extension to be warranted. The time extension process included a notice of the application to properties within 300 feet of the exterior boundaries, and no written comments or telephone calls were received.