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CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022
SPECIAL MEETING - 6:30 P.M.
LEE LOWREY
Chair
LAUREN KLEIMAN
Vice Chair
CURTIS ELLMORE
Secretary
SARAH KLAUSTERMEIER
PETER KOETTING
MARK ROSENE
ERIK WEIGAND
Planning Commissioners are citizens of Newport Beach who volunteer to serve on the Planning Commission.
They were appointed by the City Council by majority vote for four-year terms. At the table in front are City staff
members who are here to advise the Commission during the meeting. They are:
SEIMONE JURJIS, Community Development Director
JIM CAMPBELL, Deputy Community Development Director
YOLANDA SUMMERHILL, Assistant City Attorney TONY BRINE, City Traffic Engineer
CLARIVEL RODRIGUEZ, Administrative Assistant
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NEWPORT BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2022
SPECIAL MEETING – 6:30 P.M.
I.CALL TO ORDER
II.PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
III.ROLL CALL
IV.PUBLIC COMMENTS
Public comments are invited on non-agenda items generally considered to be within the subject matter 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 MAY 12, 2022
Recommended Action: Approve and file
VII.PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS
Speakers must limit comments to three (3) minutes on all items. Before speaking, please state your name for
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 NEWPORT BEACH TENNIS CLUB DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT EXTENSION
(PA2022-038)
Site Location: 1602 East Coast Highway
Summary:
The City and Golf Realty Fund, Managing Owner (“GRF”), entered into a Development Agreement
(“Agreement”) in 2012 to ensure the orderly redevelopment of the Newport Beach Tennis Club site over
time with a replacement tennis facility, visitor accommodations, and 5 single-family homes (“Approved
Project”). The term of the Agreement is 10 years and it will expire on September 23, 2022, if no action is
taken. The Agreement provides GRF the vested right to implement the Approved Project provided it is
incompliance with the approved entitlements and development standards specified in the Newport Beach
Country Club Planned Community for the Tennis Club site. The Agreement also requires GRF to provide
certain public benefits. GRF requests a 10-year extension.
Recommended Action:
1.Conduct a public hearing;
2.Find all significant environmental concerns for the Approved Project have been addressed in a
previously approved Mitigated Negative Declaration No. ND2010-008 (SCH 2010091052) and an
Errata to Mitigated Negative Declaration No. ND2010-008 (together referred as “MND”), and that the
City of Newport Beach intends to use said document for the proposed First Amendment to Agreement,
and further that there are no additional reasonable alternative or mitigation measures that should be
considered in conjunction with the First Amendment to Agreement; and
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3.Adopt Resolution No. PC2022-008 recommending approval to the City Council of First Amendment
to Development Agreement (DA2022-001), to extend the term of the Development Agreement by one
year, from September 23, 2022, to September 23, 2023 (Attachment No. PC 1).
ITEM NO. 3 SENATE BILL 9 IMPLEMENTATION CODE AMENDMENT (PA2021-277)
Site Location: Citywide
Summary:
Senate Bill 9 Implementation Code Amendment - Amendments to Title 19 (Subdivisions) and Title 20
(Planning and Zoning) establishing regulations to implement Government Code Sections 65852.21 and
66411.7 that went into effect on January 1, 2022. Specifically, the amendment would allow ministerial
subdivisions and the construction of up to two units for lots that are designated for single-family use.
Recommended Action:
1.Conduct a public hearing;
2.Find this amendment statutorily exempt from environmental review and not considered a project
under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Government Code Sections
65852.21(j) and 66411.7(n) and further find that this amendment is categorically exempt from CEQA
under Section 15303 and 15315 as set forth in Title 14, Division 6, Chapter 3 of the California Code
of Regulations which categorically exempts the construction of a second dwelling unit in a residential
zone and the division of property in urbanized areas zoned for residential use into four or fewer
parcels; and
3.Adopt Resolution No. PC2022-012 (Attachment No. PC 1) recommending the City Council approve
Code Amendment No. CA2021-007 implementing new state law requirements relating to SB 9
housing developments and urban lot splits.
VIII.STAFF AND COMMISSIONER ITEMS
ITEM NO. 4 MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION
ITEM NO. 5 REPORT BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR OR REQUEST FOR MATTERS
WHICH A PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBER WOULD LIKE PLACED ON A FUTURE
AGENDA
ITEM NO. 6 REQUESTS FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES
IX.ADJOURNMENT