HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023-25 - Initiating an Amendment to the Newport Place Planned Community Development Plan to Revise the Minimum Affordability Percentage of the Residential Overlay (PA2023-0082)RESOLUTION NO. 2023-25
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA, INITIATING AN
AMENDMENT TO THE NEWPORT PLACE PLANNED
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO REVISE THE
MINIMUM AFFORDABILITY PERCENTAGE OF THE
RESIDENTIAL OVERLAY (PA2023-0082)
WHEREAS, City Council Policy A-1 ("City Council") allows a member of the City
Council to request that an item be placed on a future City Council agenda for
consideration;
WHEREAS, at the April 11, 2023, City Council meeting, City Council Member Erik
Weigand requested that an item be placed on a future City Council agenda that reduced
the inclusionary housing percentage for the Newport Place Planned Community
Development Plan (PC-11) from thirty to fifteen percent; and
WHEREAS, City Council desires to initiate an amendment to the Newport Place
Planned Community Development Plan (PC-11) related to the minimum affordability
percentage of the Residential Overlay in accordance to Section 20.56.050(E)
(Development Plan Amendments) and Section 20.56.050(B) (Development Plan) of the
Newport Beach Municipal Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Newport Beach resolves as
follows:
Section 1: The City Council hereby initiates an amendment to Newport Place
Planned Community Development Plan to lower the minimum affordability percentage of
the Residential Overlay.
Section 2: The recitals provided in this resolution are true and correct and are
incorporated into the operative part of this resolution.
Section 3: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
resolution is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not
affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this resolution. The City
Council hereby declares that it would have passed this resolution, and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
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Section 4: The City Council finds the adoption of this resolution is exempt from
environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA"), pursuant
to Section 15262 of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14,
Division 6, Chapter 3, because it involves feasibility or planning studies for possible future
actions which the agency, board, or commission has not approved or adopted.
Section 5: This resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the
City Council, and the City Clerk shall certify the vote adopting the resolution.
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I, Leilani I. Brown, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council is seven; the foregoing resolution, being Resolution
No. 2023-25 was duly introduced before and adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting
of said Council held on the gth day of May, 2023; and the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Mayor Noah Blom, Council Member Brad Avery, Council Member Robyn Grant, Council
Member Lauren Kleiman, Council Member Erik Weigand
NAYS: None
RECUSED: Mayor Pro Tern Will O'Neill, Council Member Joe Stapleton
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of
said City this loth day of May, 2023.
Leilani I. Brown
City Clerk
Newport Beach, California