HomeMy WebLinkAboutPC AgendaPLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 3300 NEWPORT BLVD.
Thursday, April 8, 2004
Regular Meeting - 6:30 p.m.
EARL MCDANIEL
Chairman
MICHAEL TOERGE ED SELICH
JEFFREY COLE
BARRY EATON
STEVE KISER
LARRY TUCKER
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 GINGER VARIN, Planning Commission Secretary
SHARON Z. WOOD, Assistant City Manager RICH EDMONSTON, Transportation &
Development Services Manager
JAMES CAMPBELL, Senior Planner ROBIN CLAUSON, 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:
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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 8, 2004 @ 6:30 p.m.
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 adjourned and regular meeting of March 18, 2004.
ACTION: Approve as written and order filed.
ITEM NO. 2.
SUBJECT: General Plan Initiation No. 2004 -001
Vacant site at northerly comer of San Miguel Drive and MacArthur Boulevard
ACTION: As directed by Housing Element Program 3.2.3, adopt Resolution recommending
the City Council adopt General Plan Initiation 2004 -001, Planned Community
Development Plan Amendment No. 2004 -001 (PA2004 -041).
ITEM NO. 3.
SUBJECT: General Plan Amendment Initiation No. 2004 -002 (PA2004 -061)
Newport Sports Museum located at 100 Newport Center Drive
ACTION: Adopt Resolution recommending the City Council adopt General Plan Amendment
Initiation 2004 -002 (PA2004 -0).
ITEM NO. 4.
SUBJECT: Initiation of an amendment to Corporate Plaza Planned Community District
Regulations (PA2004 -064)
ACTION: Adopt Resolution recommending the initiation of an amendment to the Corporate
Plaza Planned Community District Regulations.
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.)
HEARING ITEMS:
ITEM NO. 5.
SUBJECT Traffic Study No. 2003 -005 (PA2003 -301)
401 Old Newport Blvd.
SUMMARY: The applicant requests approval of a traffic study for the construction of a 16,500
square foot, two -story office building at the northwest corner of Old Newport
Boulevard and Hospital Road. Presently improved with a 4,782 square foot, two -
story commercial building, the property is zoned SP -9 (Old Newport) District and
has General Plan Land Use designation of Retail & Service Commercial.
ACTION: Approve Traffic Study No. 2003 -005 subject to the findings and conditions of
approval included within the attached draft resolution.
ITEM NO. 6.
SUBJECT: Newport Technology Center
Traffic Study No. 2003 -001 (PA2003 -122)
SUMMARY: An amendment to Use Permit No. 3679 and Traffic Study pursuant to the Traffic
Phasing Ordinance (TPO) for a possible increase in the amount of general office
uses within the Newport Technology Center.
ACTION: Remove from calendar and re -notice for April 22, 2004.
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) Report from Planning Commission's representative to the Local Coastal Plan Update Committee -
e) Matters which a Planning Commissioner would like staff to report on at a subsequent meeting -
f) Matters which a Planning Commissioner may wish to place on a future agenda for action and staff
report -
g) Status Reports on Planning Commission requests -
h) Project status -
i) Requests for excused absences -
ADJOURNMENT