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Home My WebLink AboutPC AgendaPLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 3300 NEWPORT BLVD. Thursday, December 8, 2005 Regular Meeting - 6:30 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 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 December 8, 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. REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCES: CONSENT CALENDAR Notice to the Public All matter(s) listed under CONSENT CALENDAR (Item 1 and 1 B) 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. 1. SUBJECT: Minutes of the regular meeting of November 17, 2005. ACTION: Approve as written and order filed. ITEM NO. 2. SUBJECT Brookfield Homes (PA2004 -251) 1301 Quail Street SUMMARY: Brookfield Homes plans to construct 86 multi - family residential condominium units within 7 buildings that will be 45 fleet in height with floor plans ranging from 900- 1,950 square feet on a 3.7 -acre site located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Spruce Street and Quail Street in the Airport Area. A General Plan Amendment is proposed that would change the land use designation of the property from Retail & Service Commercial to Multi - Family Residential. An amendment of the Newport Place Planned Community is sought to change the use of the site from a 304 unit extended stay hotel to multi - family housing. The changes to the Planned Community district regulations will establish use and development regulations for the proposed condominium project. A tentative tract Map is also sought that would subdivide the lot to establish 86 condominium units. ACTION: Continue this item to February 23, 2006 at the request of the applicant. 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.) ITEM NO. 3. SUBJECT: Wilson Automotive Group 848, 888 Dove Street and 3901, 3931, 3961 MacArthur Boulevard SUMMARY: A request by the Wilson Automotive Group for a modification to the proposed sign program that does not conform to the sign regulations of the Newport Place Planned Community in the following ways: 1) number and height of ground signs, 2) number of wall signs, and 3) area of special purpose directional signs. The applicant requests two ground signs where one is allowed. The signs would be located along Jamboree Road and MacArthur Boulevard. Both signs (6 feet high and 6 feet, 4 inches high) exceed the maximum allowable of 4 feet. The applicant proposes wall signs on more than 2 facades of each building and lastly, the applicant proposes directional signs that are 10 square feet in area where 6 square feet is the maximum allowable. ACTION: Approve the proposed Sign Program and Modification Permit No. 2005 -107 (PA2005 -232) subject to findings and conditions of approval. ITEM NO. 4. SUBJECT: Pas Tu Cafe 216'/2 Marine Avenue SUMMARY: A request to amend Use Permit No. 3175 allowing up to 6 tables within the existing restaurant, rather than 3 tables as previously conditioned. The maximum number of seats permitted will remain at 12 seats. Additionally, the request includes the authorization for the sale of alcoholic beverages for on -site consumption pursuant to the Alcoholic Beverage Ordinance (ABO). ACTION: Approve Modification Permit No. 2005 -107 (PA2005 -232) subject to findings and conditions of approval. ITEM NO. 5. SUBJECT Mariner's Mile Gateway (PA2004 -141) 100 -600 West Coast Highway SUMMARY: Request for approval a Use Permit, Modification Permit and Development Plan, to allow the development of a 56,000 square foot shopping center and two -level subterranean parking garage. The site is approximately 2.57 acres and is currently occupied by 8 detached commercial structures that would be removed. The request includes consideration of a Use Permit to allow buildings to exceed the base height limit of 26 -feet up to a maximum height of 35 feet, a Modification Permit to allow a commercial building to encroach into the required 5 foot wide rear yard abutting residential properties to the north, and a Modification Permit to allow a landscape planter to be built less than the required width of 4 feet along Coast Highway. The project also includes right -of -way dedication along Coast Highway for widening of Coast Highway adjacent to the project site, installation of a traffic signal on Coast Highway, grading, landscaping, site lighting and site walls. A Mitigated Negative Declaration has been prepared in connection with the application noted above. The Mitigated Negative Declaration states that, with changes incorporated in the project or with mitigation measures indicated, the subject development will not result in a significant effect on the environment. It is the present intention of the City to accept the Mitigated Negative Declaration and supporting documents. This is not to be construed as either approval or denial by the City of the subject application. ACTION: Review the draft Mitigated Negative Declaration, Development Plan, Use Permit and Modification Permit, receive public comments, either: a) Adopt Resolution adopting Mitigated Negative Declaration SCH No. 2005101141 and approve Development Plan No. 2004 -001, Use Permit 2004 -025 and Modification Permit No. 2005 -117 for development of a 56,000 square foot retail center with underground parking at 100 -600 West Coast Highway, or: b) Deny the request by adopting the findings for denial. 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) Project status — i) Requests for excused absences - ADJOURNMENT: