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Home My WebLink AboutPC AgendaPLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 3300 NEWPORT BLVD. Thursday, December 9, 2004 Regular Meeting - 6:30 p.m. LARRY TUCKER Chairman MICHAEL TOERGE ED SELICH JEFFREY COLE BARRY EATON 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: SHARON Z. WOOD, Assistant City Manager JAMES CAMPBELL, Senior Planner GINGER VARIN, Planning Commission Secretary RICH EDMONSTON, Transportation & Development Services Manager ROBIN CLAUSON, 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 9, 2004 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: STUDY SESSION: ADJOURNED MEETING AT 4:00 P.M. ITEM NO.1 SUBJECT: Newport Lexus (PA2004 -153) 3901, 3931, 3961 MacArthur Boulevard, 848, 888 Dove Street SUMMARY: Preliminary review of conceptual building plans for a proposed Newport Lexus automobile dealership. ACTION: Review the conceptual building plans, receive public comments, and provide direction on issues to be addressed for the public hearing tentatively scheduled for April 2005. ITEM NO.2 SUBJECT: General Plan Update — Land Use AltematWes SUMMARY: Review land use aftematives for further study in the General Plan update ACTION: Review and provide direction to staff. CONSENT CALENDAR Notice to the Public All matter(s) listed under CONSENT CALENDAR (Item 3)are 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. ALL TESTIMONY GIVEN BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION 1S 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: Minutes of the regular meeting of November 18, 2004. ACTION: Approve as written and order filed. HEARING ITEMS: ITEM NO. 4. SUBJECT: Pacific Coast Yacht Club and Charter Service (Norman Goodin) (PA2004 -216) 2527 West Coast Highway SUMMARY: A request for the approval of an Off -site Parking Agreement to satisfy the off - street parking requirements for a charter boat service utilizing two offsite properties located at 2530 and 2436 W. Coast Highway. The applicant also requests an approval of a Modification Permit to allow tandem parking at the subject property. ACTION: Recommend approval of Off -site Parking Agreement No. 2004-002 & Modification Permit No. 2004-067 subject to findings and conditions. ITEM NO. 6. SUBJECT: Sage Hill Cellular Antenna Site (PA2004 -230) 20662 Newport Coast Drive SUMMARY: Request to allow the installation of three telecommunication antennae and a microwave dish on an existing smokestack, three 20 -foot high telecommunication antennae poles and a 240 square foot equipment shelter with two geographic positioning system antennae. The subject property is located in the Open Space - Passive (OPS) zoning district where the proposed use is not permitted. Since the property has existing telecommunications facilities on site, the applicant seeks to expand the nonconforming use pursuant to Section 20.62.050 of the Zoning Code. ACTION: Recommend approval of Use Permit No. 2004 -039 subject to findings and conditions. ITEM NO. 6. SUBJECT: Biosensors International (PA2004 -238) 20280 Acacia Street, Suite 100 SUMMARY: Use Permit to allow a 4,077 square foot research and development (R & D) operation that includes the a dean room, three office/lab rooms, a wet lab and additional office space within an existing office building in the Business Park District (BP) of the Santa Ana Heights Specific Plan District (SP -7). Notwithstanding this request, staff is recommending that the use permit authorize up to a mximum of 5;000 square feet of the building to accommodate R & D use, medical /dental office or retail uses subject to the review and approval by the Planning Director without the necessity for separate use permit applications. ACTION: Recommend approval of Use Permit No. 2004 -041 subject to findings and conditions. ITEM NO. 7. SUBJECT: St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Expansion (PA2002 -265) 600 St. Andrews Road SUMMARY: The proposed project consists of the replacement of the existing fellowship hall and the construction of a new multi - purpose gymnasium, youth center, educational building and a below grade parking structure on the existing St. Andrews Church campus. The General Plan Amendment would increase the maximum allowable floor area that could be built on the site by no more than 22,000 sq. ft. with no change to the existing land use designation of Governmental, Educational & Institutional Facilities. The increase in floor area would be necessary to accommodate the proposed construction generally described. The application also includes a request to change the existing zoning designations of the property from R -1 and R -2 (residential) to GEIF (Governmental, Educational & Institutional Facilities) to gain consistency with the existing General Plan land use designation. The project also includes consideration of a Use Permit and a Traffic Study pursuant to the Traffic Phasing Ordinance for construction and operation of the proposed development. ACTION: Recommend adoption of a resolution recommending certification of the St. Andrews Expansion Draft Environmental Impact Report and approval of General Plan 2003- 001, Code Amendment 2003 -002 & Use Permit 2002 -056 to the City Council. ITEM NO. 8. SUBJECT Circle Residence (PA2003 -006) 3415 Ocean Blvd. SUMMARY: Request for an amendment to an approved Variance and Modification Permit that allowed a new single - family residence to exceed the 24 -foot height limit and subterranean portions of 3 floors to encroach into the required 10 -foot front yard setback. The applicant is requesting changes to the building design that include an increase to the height on the bluff side of the proposed residence. The applicant does not request to exceed the top of curb height of Ocean Boulevard. ACTION: Recommend approval of an amendment to Variance No. 2003-001 and Modification Permit No. 2003 -004 subject to findings and conditions. ADDITIONAL BUSINESS: a) City Council Follow -up - b) Oral 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) 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) Status Reports on Planning Commission requests - g) Project status - h) Requests for excused absences - ADJOURNMENT