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CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
REGULAR MEETING - 6:00 P.M.
CURTIS ELLMORE
Chair
MARK ROSENE
Vice Chair
TRISTAN HARRIS
Secretary
BRADY BARTO JON LANGFORD
LEE LOWREY
DAVID SALENE
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, Assistant City Manager/Community Development Director
JIM CAMPBELL, Deputy Community Development Director
AARON HARP, City Attorney BRAD SOMMERS, City Traffic Engineer
CLARIVEL RODRIGUEZ, Administrative Assistant
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Regular meetings of the Planning Commission are held on the Thursdays preceding second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at 6:30
p.m. The agendas, minutes, and staff reports are available on the City's website at: http://www.newportbeachca.gov and for public
inspection in the Community Development Department, Planning Division located at 100 Civic Center Drive, during normal business hours.
If you have any questions or require copies of any of the staff reports or other documentation, please contact the Community Development
Department, Planning Division staff at 949-644-3200.
This Commission is subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act. Among other things, the Brown Act requires that the Commission’s agenda be
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and items not on the agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Commission. The Commission may limit public comments
to a reasonable amount of time, generally three (3) minutes per person. All testimony given before the Planning Commission is recorded.
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APPEAL PERIOD: Use Permit, Variance, Site Plan Review, and Modification Permit applications do not become effective until 14 days
following the date of approval, during which time an appeal may be filed with the City Clerk in accordance with the provisions of the Newport
Beach Municipal Code. Tentative Tract Map, Tentative Parcel Map, Lot Merger, and Lot Line Adjustment applications do not become
effective until 10 days following the date of approval, during which time an appeal may be filed with the City Clerk in accordance with the
provisions of the Newport Beach Municipal Code. General Plan, Zoning, and Local Coastal Program Amendments are automatically
forwarded to the City Council for final action.
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NEWPORT BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
REGULAR MEETING – 6:00 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 SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
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 THE CHAMPIONS CLUB STAFF APPROVAL APPEAL (PA2023-0138)
Site Location: 1107 AND 1171 Jamboree Road
Summary:
An appeal of the Community Development Director’s August 3, 2023, Staff Approval, finding substantial
conformance to the previously approved Use Permit No. UP1697 and authorizing a new operator,
Champion Management Group, Inc., to operate six existing tennis courts located on Parcel 2 of
Resubdivision No. 413 under the name “The Champions Club.” These six courts were previously part of
the Palisades Tennis Club. There are no physical improvements proposed for the continued tennis
operations, and pickleball activities of any kind are prohibited within the operation. The Palisades Tennis
Club will continue to operate ten existing courts and clubhouse located on Parcel 1 of Resubdivision No.
413.
Recommended Actions:
1. Conduct a public hearing;
2. Find this project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to
Section 15301 under Class 1 (Existing Facilities) of the CEQA Guidelines, because it has no
potential to have a significant effect on the environment; and
3. Adopt Resolution No. PC2023-034 upholding the Community Development Director’s
approval authorizing a new operator for six existing tennis courts and finding substantial
conformance with Use Permit No. UP1697 (PA2023-0138).
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ITEM NO. 3 NEWPORT AUTO CENTER (PA2020-319)
Site Location: 445 East Coast Highway
Summary:
A request for a conditional use permit to demolish an existing 44,352-square-foot automobile dealership
(Newport Beach Porsche) and construct a new 50,391-square-foot Newport Beach Porsche dealership
within the Newport Auto Center. The new dealership includes a showroom, administrative offices, parts
and service center, and attached three-level, 293-space parking structure. Additionally, the applicant
requests a major site development review to increase the allowed height from a base height limit of 26
feet for flat roofs and 31 feet for sloped roofs to a maximum height of 35 feet with flat roofs and 40 feet for
sloped roofs. There is a second 5,105-square-foot automobile dealership, Newport Beach Bentley, within
the Auto Center which is existing to remain. The property is located in the coastal zone, and therefore the
redevelopment requires a Coastal Development Permit. If approved, this Conditional Use Permit would
supersede Use Permit No. UP2017-014.
Recommended Actions:
1. Conduct a public hearing;
2. Find this project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to
Section 15332 under Class 32 (Infill Development Projects) of the CEQA Guidelines, because it
has no potential to have a significant effect on the environment; and
3. Adopt Resolution No. PC2023-035 approving a Major Site Development Review, Conditional
Use Permit and Coastal Development Permit to allow the demolition of an automobile
dealership and construction of a new two-level automobile dealership with an attached three-
level parking structure.
ITEM NO. 4 NEWPORT VILLAGE PLANNED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN AMENDMENT
(PA2023-0122)
Site Location: 800-984 Avocado Avenue
Summary:
A request to amend the Newport Village Planned Community (PC-27) Development Plan to modify the
definitions and the allowed uses of the area designated as Area 5 (Retail). The following list highlights the
requested changes:
• Within definitions, amend “Gross Floor Area” and “Restaurant” to be consistent with the definitions
provided in Chapter 20.70.020 (Definitions) of the Newport Beach Municipal Code (NBMC);
• Update subsection A (Permitted Uses) to allow the same uses of the General Commercial (CG)
Zoning District, subject to the same permitting requirements, as provided in Table 2-5 (Allowed Uses
and Permit Requirements) of Chapter 20.20 (Commercial Zoning Districts Land Uses and Permit
Requirements) of the NBMC;
• Strike and remove the entirety of Subsection B (“Site Plan Review Required”);
• Strike and remove the entirety of Subsection C (“Uses Requiring a Use Permit”); and
• Revise the Development Standards subsection to incorporate the update to the definition of Gross
Floor Area.
Recommended Actions:
1. Conduct a public hearing;
2. Find the amendment is not a project subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
in accordance with Section 21065 of the California Public Resources Code and Sections
15060(c)(2), 15060(c)(3), and 15378 of the California Code of Regulations Title 14, Division 6,
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Chapter 3 (CEQA Guidelines). The proposed action is also exempt pursuant to CEQA Guidelines
Section 15061(b)(3), the general rule that CEQA applies only to projects, which have the potential
for causing a significant effect on the environment; and
3.Adopt Resolution No. PC2023-036 recommending the City Council adopt an amendment to
the Newport Village Planned Community (PC-27) Development Plan to update the definitions
and allowed uses within Area 5.
VIII.DISCUSSION ITEMS
ITEM NO. 5 HOUSING ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION AMENDMENT
Site Location: Airport Area
Summary:
In September 2022, the Newport Beach City Council adopted the General Plan 6th Cycle Housing
Element. The Housing Element was certified by the State Department of Housing and Community
Development (HCD) in October 2022. The certified Housing Element (Housing Element) pledges to
rezone new sites for housing to satisfy the 6th Cycle Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA)
allocation. The initial site selection is provided in Appendix B of the Housing Element.
The City must implement the rezoning policy actions by February 2025, although the City has an additional
year for sites in the Coastal Zone. To accomplish this task, the City must update the General Plan Land
Use Element to be consistent with the Housing Element and the City must adopt appropriate zoning
regulations to implement the policies. Part of the zoning implementation includes identifying objective
design standards for future housing as well as the creation of review procedures that allow certain types
of housing by right.
This study session will focus on draft Land Use Element policy revisions, draft Housing Opportunity
Overlay Zoning Districts, and draft Objective Design Standards.
Recommended Action:
1.Discuss and provide input to staff.
IX.STAFF AND COMMISSIONER ITEMS
ITEM NO. 6 MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION
ITEM NO. 7 REPORT BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR OR REQUEST FOR MATTERS
WHICH A PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBER WOULD LIKE PLACED ON A FUTURE
AGENDA
ITEM NO. 8 REQUESTS FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES
X.ADJOURNMENT