HomeMy WebLinkAbout10 - Planning Commission AgendaNEWPORT BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS — 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE
THURSDAY, February 6, 2014
REGULAR MEETING — 6:30 p.m.
CALL TO ORDER
Agenda Item No 10
February 11, 2014
II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
III. ROLL CALL
IV. PUBLIC COMMENTS
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jurisdiction of the Planning Commission. Speakers must limit comments to three (3) minutes. Before speaking,
please state your name for the record and print your name on the blue forms provided at the podium.
V. REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCES
VI. CONSENT ITEMS
ITEM NO. 1 MINUTES OF JANUARY 23, 2014
Recommended Action: Approve and file
VII. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS
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the record and print your name on the blue forms provided at the podium.
If in the future, you wish to challenge in court any of the matters on this agenda for which a public hearing is
to be conducted, you may be limited to raising only those issues, which you (or someone else) raised orally
at the public hearing or in written correspondence received by the City at or before the hearing.
ITEM NO.2 1000 Halyard Memory Care Facility (PA2013 -195)
Site Location: 1000 Halyard
Summary:
A conditional use permit and site development review request for a new approximately 19,200- square-
foot, two -story convalescent facility. The convalescent facility would be in the form of a memory care
facility licensed by the state with 42 beds occupied by residents that are considered non - ambulatory.
Access to the site will be taken from Halyard, which is a private easement. The project would occupy
two building sites that are currently vacant and used as boat storage. The request also includes a lot
merger to merge the two sites into one parcel for the development and a Variance for a fence to be 6
feet high where the Zoning Code limits the height to 42 inches.
CEQA Compliance:
The project is categorically exempt under Section 15332, of the State CEQA (California
Environmental Quality Act) Guidelines - Class 32 (In -fill Development Projects).
Recommended Action:
1. Conduct public hearing; and
2. Adopt Resolution No. _ approving the following:
a. Conditional Use Permit No. UP2013 -019
b. Site Development Review No. SD2013 -005
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c. Lot Merger No. LM2014 -001
d. Variance No. VA2014 -002
ITEM NO.3 Acacia Street Laboratory (PA2013 -247)
Site Location: 20377 Acacia Street, Suite 200
Summary:
The applicant proposes a urinalysis laboratory on the second floor of an existing two -story office
building. A conditional use permit is required to allow the laboratory use.
CEQA Compliance:
The project is categorically exempt under Section 15301, of the State CEQA (California
Environmental Quality Act) Guidelines - Class 1 (Existing Facilities).
Recommended Action:
1. Conduct public hearing; and
2. Adopt Resolution No. approving Conditional Use Permit No. UP2013 -028.
ITEM NO.4 Uptown Newport Affordable Housing Implementation Plan Amendment (PA2014 -011)
Site Location: 4311 & 4321 Jamboree Road, N/S of Jamboree Road, between
Birch Street and MacArthur Boulevard
Summary:
Uptown Newport LP requests an amendment of an approved Affordable Housing Implementation Plan
(AHIP) that is part of the approved Uptown Newport Planned Community. The Uptown Newport Planned
Community consists of a mix of 1,244 residential units, retail service commercial and public parks on a
25 -acre site located northwest of the intersection of Jamboree Road and Fairchild Road. The proposed
amendment would modify the timing of affordable housing construction potentially allowing all of the
affordable housing to be constructed in the first phase of construction. The Planning Commission will
make a recommendation to the City Council for future action on this application.
CEQA Compliance:
All significant environmental concerns for the proposed project have been addressed in a previously
certified Environmental Impact Report No. ER2012 -001 (SCH No. 2010051094), and that the City of
Newport Beach intends to use said document for the above noted project, and further that there are
no additional reasonable alternative or mitigation measures that should be considered in conjunction
with said project.
Recommended Action:
1. Conduct public hearing; and
2. Adopt Resolution No. _ recommending City Council approval of an amendment of the
Uptown Newport Affordable Housing Implementation Plan.
VIII. STUDY SESSION
ITEM NO. 5 Lido Marina Village Study Session (PA2014 -002)
Site Location: 3600 -3700 Newport Boulevard, 3400 -3444 Via Lido and 34003505 Via
Oporto
Summary:
The applicant, DJM Capital, shall present the proposed renovations for Lido Marina Village. Lido Marina
Village is approximate 5.6 acre retail, office, and marina site on the Balboa Peninsula bounded to the
south by Via Lido, to the west by Newport Boulevard, and to the north and east by Newport Harbor. The
project consists of exterior fagade and signage improvements to existing buildings, interior tenant
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improvements, modification to the adjacent rights -of -way along Via Oporto and Central Avenue, and
reconfiguration of the marina. Consideration of discretionary applications will not occur at this meeting,
but will occur at future, noticed public meetings. The study session will be informational only and no
decisions will be made at this meeting.
Recommended Action:
1. Staff recommends that the Planning Commission discuss the proposed project and provide
direction to staff as necessary.
STAFF AND COMMISSIONER ITEMS
ITEM NO. 6 MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION
ITEM NO. 7 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR'S REPORT
Committee Updates:
1. Land Use Element Amendment Advisory Committee
2. General Plan /Local Coastal Program Implementation Committee
ITEM NO. 8 ANNOUNCEMENTS ON MATTERS THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBERS
WOULD LIKE PLACED ON A FUTURE AGENDA FOR DISCUSSION, ACTION, OR
REPORT
ITEM NO. 9 REQUESTS FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES
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