The Specific Plan application has been withdrawn.
Following is an overview of the prior planning history for the Monrovia
Glendora site.
PLANNING
HISTORY
In
the Fall of 2004, it became apparent it was time to plan the future
neighborhoods for our 95 acres in Glendora. While changes in our business
required us to relocate our growing grounds, we are keeping our corporate
offices here. We decided to begin our land planning by going door to
door to see what our neighbors wanted. From this input, we developed Guiding
Principles (click here to view).
It quickly became apparent that the best approach would be to seek to
create a Specific Plan.
Unlike existing zoning, a Specific Plan creates certainty and solves problems
outside our property boundaries. Once consensus and certainty are achieved,
the Specific Plan is used to complete the Environmental Impact
Report and other approvals from the City. The final step would
be to consider bids from major high quality builder/developers who will
build pursuant to the requirements of the Specific Plan.
We hired Julie Vandermost and Peter Carlson of Vandermost and Carlson to
work with all constituents and build consensus around our Specific Plan.
The Specific Plan requires an extensive amount of work to identify the
details of the new neighborhoods that are being planned and the solutions
to the problems in existing neighborhoods. To give you an idea of the amount
of information that will be produced, please review the Specific Plan Table
of Contents by clicking here.
Quality and sustained home values are our hallmarks. This means having
excellent professionals on the planning team. Our Design Team includes
award-winning designer Steve Kellenberg of EDAW. Steve
and his team have designed master planned communities and new neighborhoods
all over the world. Please
click here to view the EDAW website. Steve’s resume can be
viewed by clicking here.
Our architectural firm is William Hezmalhalch Architects.
Will Haynes and his team will be creating the architectural standards
required to create high quality neighborhoods with architectural styles
found in Glendora. Please
click here to view the William Hezmalhalch website. Will’s
resume can be viewed by clicking here.
Our civil engineering firm is RBF. Please
click here to view the RBF website. Our lead engineer is Mark Anderson
who is working diligently on issues of major concern to our neighbors,
such as drainage, grading, topographic elevations and access. Mark’s
resume can be viewed by clicking here. Our goal is to give exact
land plan details so views are protected and understood, i.e., no
surprises.
Our goal is to create the highest quality neighborhoods through design.
We wish to maintain clear and open channels of communication because rumors
spread easily when planning is occurring. We want to be sure that our neighbors'
opinions are based on real facts rather than rumors or misunderstandings
HISTORY
OF NEIGHBORHOOD INPUT
In order to facilitate communication we met with neighbors whose homes
physically touch the Nursery borders. Over 60 individual meetings with
homeowners were held between December 2004 and March 2005.
Our next step was to organize the approximately 250 homes around the Nursery
into 12 neighborhoods. At meetings held in April and May 2005,we invited
neighbors in each area to meet and asked them to elect two representatives,
a neighborhood captain and an alternate. They agreed to communicate information
to and from their neighbors. Click
here to view the neighborhoods and the Captains' names.
The next phase of our process was to review alternative plans. The neighborhood
captains attended planning meetings to refine a land-planning concept.
Once the plan components were identified, we invited all of the neighbors
to work shops in early June with our land planning team of our land planner,
Steve Kellenberg, our architect Will Haynes and our engineer, Mark Anderson.
We took the comments from the workshop and continued to refine the land
plans with the captains in June and July. In August and September, we scheduled
another series of meetings with all of the neighbors.
LAND PLAN
The land plans followed our guiding principles and centered on a concept
of matching existing neighborhoods in size but with improved design. For
example, the 35 acres south of Sierra Madre is surrounded by existing homes
on 20,000 square foot lots. The land plan alternatives incorporate homes
on 20,000 square foot lots but with clearly delineated architecture and
placement to not interfere with existing neighbors. In the southern portion
of the property, the alternative land plans were based on the zoning just
south of the property, in the Autumn Oaks, Newhill and Foothill Village
neighborhoods.
As
set forth in our Guiding Principles, we know that traffic and circulation,
drainage, and the rural quality of the existing neighborhoods are key issues.
In order to address these issues, the land plan has been designed to incorporate
rural features such as one story homes, a gated adult only community of
27 acres that reduces traffic, and a storm drain system that addresses
problems outside our property boundaries.
If you are interested in participating in the Monrovia Nursery planning
process, please contact Miles Rosedale at 334.9321 or Julie Vandermost
toll-free at 888.210.5318, ext. 203.