Supervisors approve time extension for Ridge Creek development

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a time extension for a development which would be located approximately 500 feet northeast of Ridge Creek Drive.

The supervisors’ 4-0 vote Sept. 12, with Ron Roberts in Washington, extends the time to complete the required improvements to Sept. 12, 2014. The time extension was granted 21 years to the day of the project’s first discretionary approval.

The subdivision south of Live Oak Park Road consists of 58.03 acres. The property would be divided into 19 single-family residential lots, and the county’s Planning and Environmental Review Board approved the tentative map on Sept. 12, 1991.

A final map is required for grading and building permits. 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. The conditions of a final map include secured agreements to ensure that the infrastructure will be built and that payment for labor and materials used to build the infrastructure will be made.

On Nov. 6, 1997, the county’s Department of Planning and Land Use approved an administrative extension until Sept. 20, 2002, to complete the required infrastructure. Although property owners LACA Investments, LLC, and JJJD, LLC, entered into an improvement agreement secured by bonds, when the Board of Supervisors approved the final map on Sept. 18, 2002, a lien contract was substituted in place of the bonds. The lien contract required LACA Investments, LLC, and JJJD, LLC, to substitute security in place of the lien and commence construction of the improvements within two years, although the Board of Supervisors has the authority to authorize time extensions.

Approval of a final map only creates legal lots and does not ensure that the development can be built if federal, state, or local regulations change between the time the final map is approved and the time the project is constructed. The project may need to comply with updated stormwater and drainage regulations.

If new regulations force changes to the project, an addendum to the Environmental Impact Report may also be needed. Time extensions for the project were previously granted on Nov. 15, 2006, Sept. 17, 2008, and Sept. 15, 2010. The most recent time extension will also require a substitution of security.