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Home My WebLink AboutAgendaPLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 3300 NEWPORT BLVD. Thursday, January 31, 2008 Regular Meeting - 6:30 p.m. ROBERT HAWKINS Chairperson JEFFREY COLE EARL MCDANIEL SCOTT PEOTTER BARRY EATON MICHAEL TOERGE BRADLEY HILLGREN 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 4 -year terms. At the table in front are City staff members who are here to advise the Commission during the meeting. They are: DAVID LEPO, Planning Director GINGER VARIN, Planning Commission Secretary PATRICK ALFORD, Senior Planner TONY BRINE, City Traffic Engineer AARON C. HARP, Assistant City Attorney 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. Staff reports or other written documentation have been prepared for each item of business listed on the agenda. If you have any questions or require copies of any of the staff reports or other documentation, please contact the Planning Department staff at (949) 644 -3200. The agendas, minutes and staff reports are also available on the City's web site. The address is: hftp://www.city.newport-beach.ca.us/. It is the intention of the City of Newport Beach to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) in all respects. If, as an attendee or a participant at this meeting, you will need special assistance beyond what is normally provided, the City of Newport Beach will attempt to accommodate you in every reasonable manner. Please contact Ginger Varin, Planning Commission Secretary at (949) 644 -3232, at least 48 hours prior to the meeting to inform us of your particular needs and to determine if accommodation is feasible. APPEAL PERIOD: Use Permit, Variance, Site Plan Review, Resubdivision, and Modification applications do not become effective until 14 days after the date of approval, during which time an appeal may be filed with the City Council. General Plan and Zoning Amendments are automatically forwarded to the City Council for final action. 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. NEWPORT BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA Council Chambers - 3300 Newport Boulevard January 31, 2008 REGULAR MEETING 6:30 p.m. CALL TO ORDER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL 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 3 minutes. Before speaking, please state your name for the record and print your name on the tablet provided at the podium. REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCES: ALL TESTIMONY GIVEN BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS RECORDED. SPEAKERS MUST LIMIT REMARKS TO THREE MINUTES ON ALL ITEMS. (Red light signifies when three minutes are up; yellow light signifies that the speaker has one minute left for summation.) Please print only your name on the pad that is provided at the podium. HEARING ITEMS ITEM NO. 1 Minutes dated January 17, 2008. ACTION: Approve as written and order filed. ITEM NO. 2. Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (PA2007 -073) One Hoag Drive SUMMARY: A request to reallocate up to 225,000 gross square feet of permitted buildable area from the Lower Campus to the Upper Campus through the approval of the proposed General Plan and Planned Community Development Plan Amendments. Applicant also requests approval of amendments to development regulations contained within the existing Planned Community Development Plan, also known as the Hoag Master Plan or the PC Text. The changes principally relate to the allocation and limit of permitted building area between the Upper and Lower Campus, noise regulations, landscaping requirements and sign standards. Lastly, applicant requests an amendment of the existing Development Agreement to reflect the changes to the Master Plan as summarized above and to provide additional public benefits principally in the form of providing funds for improvements and community projects to public facilities such as streets, parks, water quality and public safety facilities. ACTION: 1) Conduct public hearing; and 2) Adopt resolution recommending City Council certification of Supplemental Environmental Impact Report SCH #1991071003; and 2) Adopt resolution recommending adoption of General Plan Amendment No. 2007 -005, Planned Community Development Plan Amendment No. 2007 -001, and Development Agreement Amendment No. 2007 -001 CEQA COMPLIANCE: A Supplemental Environmental Impact Report has been prepared in connection with the application noted above. It is the present intention of the City to accept the Environmental Impact Report and supporting documents. Copies of the Environmental Impact Report and supporting documents are available for public review and inspection at the Planning Department, City of Newport Beach. ITEM NO. 3. Arches Grill (PA 2007 -146) 508 29th Street SUMMARY: A request for an amendment of Use Permit No. 3611 to permit an existing full - service, low - tumover eating and drinking establishment to: 1) expand their hours of operation to include lunch service; 2) increase the number of special events permitted per year from 8 events to 12 events; and 3) reconfigure the dining area, and authorize use of a previously unapproved bar area. The property is located in the Retail and Service Commercial (RSC) land use designation of the Cannery Village /McFadden Square Specific Plan District (SP -6). ACTION: 1) Conduct public hearing; and 2) Adopt resolution approving the amendment to Use Permit No. 3611, subject to findings and conditions. CEQA COMPLIANCE: This project has been determined to be categorically exempt under the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act under Class 1 (Existing Facilities). ADDITIONAL BUSINESS: a) City Council Follow -up b) Report from Planning Commission's representative to the Economic Development Committee c) Report from the Planning Commission's representative to the General Plan /Local Coastal Implementation Committee d) Matters which a Planning Commissioner would like staff to report on at a subsequent meeting e) Matters which a Planning Commissioner may wish to place on a future agenda for action and staff report f) Project status g) Requests for excused absences ADJOURNMENT: