HomeMy WebLinkAbout9746 - General Plan Amendment 80-1RESOLUTION NO. 9746
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
qb OF NEWPORT BEACH APPROVING AMENDMENTS TO THE
LAND USE, RESIDENTIAL GROWTH, AND RECREATION
AND OPEN SPACE ELEMENTS OF THE GENERAL PLAN,
AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL DOCU-
MENT (GPA 80 -1)
WHEREAS, Section 707 of the Charter of the City
of Newport Beach provides that the City Council, upon
recommendation of the Planning Commission, may amend the
General Plan or any part thereof; and
WHEREAS, the General Plan of the City of Newport
Beach contains the Land Use, Residential Growth, and
Recreation and Open Space Elements which will serve as a
guide for the future planning and development of the City;
and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has held a public
hearing at which it considered amendments to the Land Use,
Residential Growth, and Recreation and Open Space Elements
and adopted Resolution No. 1049 recommending to the City
Council certain changes in said elements; and
WHEREAS, an Initial Study and Negative Declaration
have been prepared in compliance with the California Environ-
mental Quality Act, and their contents have been considered
in the decisions on this project; and
WHEREAS, based on the information contained in the
Negative Declaration, the project incorporates sufficient
mitigation measures to reduce potentially significant environ-
mental effects, and the project will not result in significant
environmental impacts,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVFD that the following
described amendments to the General Plan be adopted as
follows:
A. CHEVRON SERVICE STATION. Change the designa-
tion on 10.2 acres northwesterly of the intersection of
Coast Highway and Dahlia Avenue in Corona del Mar, from
"Low Density Residential" to "Retail and Service Commercial"
uses.
B. FREEWAY RESERVATION - EAST. Change the
designation on t 25 acres easterly of MacArthur Boulevard
adjacent to Harbor View Hills from "Medium Density Residen-
tial" with a maximum of 100 units to "Low Density Residen-
tial" with a maximum of four dwellin units per buildable
acre.
C. BUILDABLE.ACREAGE. Change the Land Use and
Residential Growth Elements of the General Plan, adding
policy language stating that at the time the Planning
Commission and /or City Council reviews a Planned Community
Development Plan, Tentative Map and /or environmental docu-
mentation for a particular project, consideration shall be
given to deleting certain sensitive areas from the calcula-
tion of the total number of residential units or square
footage of commercial development: to be allowed on a site
as follows: Flood plain areas.
D. LOCATION OF STRUCTURES. Change the Land Use
and Residential Growth Elements of the General Plan, to
apply when considering the subdivision or resubdivision of
land or to the adoption of Planned Community Development
' Plans, adding to the list of areas where no structures shall
be built as follows:
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1. Flood plain areas;
2. Natural slope areas greater than two
to one (2:1) and greater than 25 feet high.
E. MASTER PLAN OF BIKEWAYS. Change the Master
Plan of Bikeways contained in the Recreation and Open Space
Element as.follows:
1. Add a backbone bikeway on the westerly
side of MacArthur Boulevard;
2. Add secondary bikeways at:
a. Bison Avenue from Jamboree Road
to MacArthur Boulevard;
b. Santa Barbara Drive from Jamboree
Road to Newport Center Drive West;
C. San Miguel Drive from MacArthur
Boulevard to San Joaquin Hills Drive;
d. Versailles Blufftop Bikeway from
Superior Avenue to Coast Highway at Newport
Boulevard; and
e. Placentia Avenue from Superior
Avenue to northerly City boundary near 16th
Street. A connecting trail should be shown
in Costa Mesa.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the environmental
document be accepted.
ADOPTED this 24th day of March , 1980.
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Mayor
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CERTMED AS /t !E o'niNAL
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