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Home My WebLink AboutPC AgendaPLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 3300 NEWPORT BLVD. Thursday, July 7, 2005 Regular Meeting - 6:30 p.m. LARRY TUCKER Chairman MICHAEL TOERGE JEFFREY COLE BARRY EATON MICHAEL HENN EARL MCDANIEL ROBERT HAWKINS 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 TEMPLE, Planning Director JAMES CAMPBELL, Senior Planner GINGER VARIN, Planning Commission Secretary 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 July 7, 2005 CALL TO ORDER 6:30 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. ELECTION OF NEW OFFICERS: PRESENTATION: 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 speck 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. 1. SUBJECT: Minutes of the regular meeting of June 23, 2005. ACTION: Approve as written and order filed. HEARING ITEMS: ITEM NO. 2. SUBJECT: Master Development Corporation (MDC) (PA2004 -231) 4200 Von Karman Avenue SUMMARY: A General Plan Amendment to Statistical Area L4 (Koll Center Newport Office Site B) of the Land Use Element to increase the maximum allowable gross office area by 1,750 square feet, and a Planned Community Text Amendment in Professional and Business Office Site B by 1,367 net square feet in order to replace an existing one -story 1,330 square feet office building with a 3,080 square foot office building. ACTION: Recommend approval of General Plan No. 2004 -006 and Code Amendment No. 2005 -006 to the City Council. ALL TESTIMONY GIVEN BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS TAPE 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.) ITEM NO. 3. SUBJECT Steven Fischer (PA2005 -098) 3600 E. Coast Highway SUMMARY: A Use Permit to allow a waiver of 4 off - street parking spaces for the development of a new two -story, 3,250 square -foot commercial building. ACTION: Deny Use Permit No. 2005 -021 subject to the suggested findings. ITEM NO. 4. SUBJECT: Hamburger Mary's Bar and Grille Restaurant (PA2005 -087) 4221 Dolphin Striker Way SUMMARY: The applicant requests approval of an amendment to an existing Use Permit to allow an existing restaurant to have live entertainment and dancing. ACTION: Approve Use Permit No. 2005 -018 subject to findings and conditions of approval. ITEM NO. 5. SUBJECT: Comprehensive Sign Code Update and Sign Design Guidelines Manual (PA2005- 091) SUMMARY: Code Amendment No. 2005 -005 to amend Municipal Code Chapter 20.67 related to sign standards applicable to all signs on a citywide basis with the exception of the Newport Coast and Ridge Planned Communities, and where sign regulations are not referenced in the Santa Ana Heights Specific Plan area and all other commercially -zoned Planned Communities. The Balboa Sign Overlay and Mariner's Mile sign regulations will be repealed by these proposed regulations, and their provisions will be incorporated into the proposed ordinance. A Sign Design Guidelines Manual is also to be considered, in order to supplement the new sign code and establish criteria for the creation of well- designed signs and further the intent and purpose of the sign code. ACTION: Hold public hearing and recommend approval of Code Amendment No. 2005 -005 to the City Council. 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) Matters which a Planning Commissioner would like staff to report on at a subsequent meeting - g) Matters which a Planning Commissioner may wish to place on a future agenda for action and staff report - h) Status Reports on Planning Commission requests - i) Project status — j) Requests for excused absences - ADJOURNMENT: