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Home My WebLink AboutPC AgendaPLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 3300 NEWPORT BLVD. Thursday, April 6, 2006 Regular Meeting — 3:00 p.m. MICHAEL TOERGE Chairman JEFFREY COLE LARRY TUCKER ROBERT HAWKINS BARRY EATON EARL MCDANIEL MICHAEL HENN 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: PATRICIA L. TEMPLE, Planning Director GINGER VARIN, Planning Commission Secretary JAMES CAMPBELL, Senior Planner RICH EDMONSTON, Transportation & Development Services Manager 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 April 6, 2006 CALL TO ORDER 3:00 P.M. 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. REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCES: CONSENT CALENDAR Notice to the Public All matter(s) listed under CONSENT CALENDAR (Item 1 and 1B) is considered by the Commission to be routine and will all be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. The Planning Commission Members have received detailed staff reports on each of the items recommending an action. There will be no separate discussion of these items prior to the time the Commission votes on the motion unless members of the Commission, staff or the public request specific items to be discussed and /or removed from the Consent Calendar for separate action. Members of the public who wish to discuss a Consent Calendar item should come forward to the lectern upon invitation by the Chairman, state their name and Consent Calendar Item number. ITEM NO. I. Minutes of the regular meeting of March 23, 2006. ACTION: Approve as written and order filed. ITEM NO. 2. Initiation of Code Amendment to Chapter 20.65 (Height limits) of the Municipal Code ACTION: Recommend initiation of Code Amendment No. 2006 -004 to the Planning Commission. HEARING ITEMS: ITEM NO. 3. Thirtieth St. Architects, Inc. (PA2005 -158) 2961 Cliff Drive SUMMARY: Request to subdivide an existing single - family residential lot, creating two single- family residential lots. The project requires an amendment to the Land Use Elemen of the General Plan to allow the subdivision of a property located within Statistics Area H -1, which currently prohibits subdivisions. The property is 33,193 square fer in size and is currently developed with a single - family residence. ACTION: Staff recommends that this item be removed from calendar. ALL TESTIMONY GIVEN BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS TAPE RECORDED, SPEAKERS MU LIMIT REMARKS TO THREE MINUTES ON ALL ITEMS. (Red light signifies when three minutes are up; yellow li signifies that the speaker has one minute left for summation.) ITEM NO. 4. Steadfast Investment Properties (PA2005 -293) 4343 Von Karman Avenue SUMMARY: Request for General Plan Amendment No. 2005 -007 and Planned Community Development Plan Amendment No. 2005 -005 to increase the maximum allowable entitlement for the property by approximately 1,740 square feet of gross floor area. The proposed project involves infilling a multi -floor lobby area (spanning the 1s� and 2n4 floors) within an existing three -story building; the expansion will occur completely within the interior of the existing building and will result in no changes to height or the exterior appearance of the building. The property is within the Koll Center Planned Community (PC) District. ACTION: Staff recommends that the Planning Commission recommend approval of the General Plan Amendment No. 2005 -007 and the Planned Community Development Plan Amendment No. 2005 -005 to the City Council. Item No. 5 Pendragon North-America (PA2004 -249) 2101 Dove Street SUMMARY: Pendragon North America Automotive Inc. proposes to redevelop the former industrial property into a vehicle service and storage facility to support their existing sales and service facility located at 1540 Jamboree Road. The requested applications would change the General Plan land use designation from Administrative, Professional & Financial Commercial to Retail Service Commercial. The existing APF zoning is also proposed to be changed from APF (Administrative, Professional & Financial) to RSC (Retail Service Commercial), The proposed use requires a Use Permit for the proposed operation of vehicle service and storage facility at the subject site. Finally, a traffic study is required pursuant to the Traffic Phasing Ordinance. ACTION: Recommend approval of General Plan Amendment No. 2004 -009, Code Amendment No. 2004 -012, Use Permit No. 2004 -043 and Traffic Study No. 2005 -006 subject to the re- circulation pursuant to theCEQA Guidelines, to the City Council. Item No. 6 General Plan Update SUMMARY: Draft Environmental Impact Report, and Harbor and Bay, Historical resources, Recreation, Arts and Cultural, Natural Resources, Safety, and Noise Elements. ACTION: Receive public comments on the Draft Environmental impact Report (DEIR) and on the referenced elements of the Draft General Plan; provide direction to staff on revisions to the referenced elements of the Draft General Plan; and, continue public hearing to April 20, 2006. ADDITIONAL BUSINESS: a) City Council Follow -up - b) Report from Planning Commission's representative to the Economic Development Committee - c) Report from Planning Commission's representatives to the General Plan Update Committee — d) Report from Planning Commission's representative to the Local Coastal Plan Certification Committee — e) Report from Planning Commission's representative to the Zoning Committee — f) Report from Planning Commission's representative to the City Hall Site Committee - g) Matters which a Planning Commissioner would like staff to report on at a subsequent meeting - h) Matters which a Planning Commissioner may wish to place on a future agenda for action and staff report - i) Project status — j) Requests for excused absences - ADJOURNMENT: