HomeMy WebLinkAboutPA2017-228 Comment 73b_06212019_AndersonFrom: Kyle Anderson <949kyle@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 10:19 AM
To: Campbell, Jim; Dixon, Diane; Avery, Brad; Duffield, Duffy; Muldoon,
Kevin; Herdman, Jeff; Brenner, Joy; O'Neill, William; Zak, Peter;
Weigand, Erik; Lowrey, Lee; Ellmore, Curtis; Kleiman, Lauren;
Koetting, Peter; Kramer, Kory; Zdeba, Benjamin
Subject: Re: PA2017228 AT&T Property / Ford Road Residential Project
Fellow Newport Beach residents and leaders:
According to the City of Newport Beach General Plan Vision Statement, the City of Newport
Beach has a “conservative growth strategy that emphasizes resident’s quality of life…”. This
proposed project does not adhere to that vision and is quite aggressive in its proposed density,
height and setbacks on this currently undeveloped site. It is very much out of scale with the
Harbor View Homes neighborhood which has a density of about 4 units per acre vs. the 20 units
per acre requested in the developer’s proposal.
Per the City’s own General Plan Environmental Impact Report, impacts to Population and
Housing are significant and unavoidable (see Section 4.10-11 of the General Plan EIR). This
proposed project was not analyzed in the existing General Plan EIR and the proposed project
directly contributes to the significant and unavoidable impact of population and housing and
therefore an EIR is the appropriate CEQA analysis for this proposed project. If the City wants to
approve this project, it will need to approve an EIR with the appropriate analysis and make
findings of overriding considerations given the significant and unavoidable impacts.
The Initial Study / Mitigated Negative Declaration by Kimley Horn is insufficient under CEQA.
This project should NOT go forward.
Best,
Kyle Anderson
949.246.1632