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Home My WebLink About0.0 - AgendaCITY OF NEWPORT BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS — 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE THURSDAY, April 3, 2014 REGULAR MEETING — 6:30 p.m. BRADLEY HILLGREN Chair LARRY TUCKER KORY KRAMER Vice Chair Secretary FRED AMERI TIM BROWN RAYMOND LAWLER JAY MYERS 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: KIMBERLY BRANDT, Community Development Director BRENDA WISNESKI, Deputy Community Development Director LEONIE MULVIHILL, Assistant City Attorney TONY BRINE, City Traffic Engineer MARLENE BURNS, Administrative Assistant 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. The agendas, minutes, and staff reports are available on the City's web site at: http: /fwwvv.newportbeachca.gov and for public inspection in the Community Development Department, Planning Division located at 100 Civic Center Drive, during normal business hours. If you have any questions or require copies of any of the staff reports or other documentation, please contact the Community Development Department, Planning Division staff at (949) 644 -3200. This Commission is subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act. Among other things, the Brown Act requires that the Commission's agenda be posted at least 72 hours in advance of each meeting and that the public be allowed to comment on agenda items before the Commission and items not on the agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Commission. The Commission may limit public comments to a reasonable amount of time, generally three (3) minutes per person. All testimony given before the Planning Commission is recorded. 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 of 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 Leilani Brown, City Clerk, at least 72 hours prior to the meeting to inform us of your particular needs and to determine if accommodation is feasible (949- 644 -3005 or Ibrown @newportbeachca.gov). APPEAL PERIOD: Use Permit, Variance, Site Plan Review, and Modification Permit applications do not become effective until 14 days following the date of approval, during which time an appeal may be filed with the City Clerk in accordance with the provisions of the Newport Beach Municipal Code. Tentative Tract Map, Tentative Parcel Map, Lot Merger, and Lot Line Adjustment applications do not become effective until 10 days following the date of approval, during which time an appeal may be filed with the City Clerk in accordance with the provisions of the Newport Beach Municipal Code. General Plan and Zoning Amendments are automatically forwarded to the City Council for final action. 1 of 4 NEWPORT BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS — 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE THURSDAY, April 3, 2014 REGULAR MEETING -6:30 p.m. CALL TO ORDER 11. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE III. ROLL CALL IV. 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 three (3) minutes. Before speaking, please state your name for the record and print your name on the blue forms provided at the podium. V. REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCES VI. CONSENT ITEMS ITEM NO. 1 MINUTES OF MARCH 20, 2014 Recommended Action: Approve and file VII. PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS Speakers must limit comments to three (3) minutes on all items. Before speaking, please state your name for the record and print your name on the blue forms provided at the podium. 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. ITEM NO.2 Harbor Day School (PA2013 -212) Site Location: 3300 and 3443 Pacific View Drive Summary: A Use Permit to allow Harbor Day School to increase the school enrollment by 72 students, from 408 to 480; make improvements to the school's existing parking lot; and use a portion of the Citys Big Canyon Reservoir site as an off -site parking lot for traffic queuing and special event parking. There is no increase in building square footage proposed. The additional students will be accommodated within the existing facility. CEQA Compliance: The project is categorically exempt under Sections 15311 - Class 11 (Accessory Structures) and 15314 - Class 14 (Minor Additions to Schools), of the State CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) Guidelines. Recommended Action: 1. Conduct public hearing; and 2. Adopt Resolution No. _approving Conditional Use Permit No. UP2013 -024. 2 of 4 ITEM NO.3 Echo Beach (formerly Seashore Village) (PA2014 -005) Site Location: 5515 River Avenue Summary: On June 10, 2008, the City Council approved the Seashore Village project, the development of 24 residential condominium units on a 1.49 -acre site located at 5515 River Avenue. The site is currently developed with a 54 -unit apartment complex that would be demolished to accommodate the proposed development. Project approvals included the following: • A tentative tract map to create a 24 -unit condominium subdivision; • A modification permit to allow encroachments into the required front and side yard setback areas and a reduction in the required distance between detached buildings; • A use permit to allow each of the 6 duplex structures to exceed the City's base height limit; and • A coastal residential development permit (CRDP) to ensure compliance with Government Code Section 65590 (Mello Act), which regulates the demolition of low and moderate income (affordable) dwelling units in the coastal zone. The applicant is revising the project to: 1) reconfigure the site plan and landscape plan; 2) eliminate duplex product type; and 3) change the floor plans and architecture to a contemporary design. The applicant requests the determination that the proposed modifications are within substantial conformance with the 2008 approval. CEQA Compliance: All significant environmental concerns for the proposed project have been addressed in a previously adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration (SCH No. 2008- 021075) and that the City has prepared an addendum to the Mitigated Negative Declaration. The proposed project is within the scope of the previously adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration considering the addendum. It is the intent of the City to accept the addendum and supporting documents to the Mitigated Negative Declaration since no new environmental impacts and no impacts of greater severity would result from approval of the proposed project. Copies of the previously prepared Mitigated Negative Declaration and supporting documents are available for public review and inspection at the Planning Division or at the City of Newport Beach website at www. newportbeachca .aov /cegadocuments. Recommended Action: 1. Conduct public hearing; and 2. Adopt Resolution No. _ finding the modified project to be in substantial conformance with the project design approved by Tentative Tract Map No. NT2007 -001 (County Tentative Tract Map No. TTM 17194), Modification Permit No. MD2007 -044, Use Permit No. UP2007- 011 and Coastal Residential Development Permit No. CR2007 -001 and that the environmental analysis of the modified plans is included in the Adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration (SCH2O08021075) and the Addendum consistent with the requirements of CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines. ITEM NO. 4 441 Old Newport Parking Modification (PA2013 -228) Site Location: 441 Old Newport Boulevard Summary: A Modification Permit request to make use of a combination of vehicle lifts, tandem parking spaces, surface parking spaces and valet parking to accommodate the 56 minimum required parking spaces for proposed medical offices in an existing office building. 3 of 4 CEQA Compliance: The project is categorically exempt under Section 15303, of the State CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) Guidelines - Class 3 (New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures). Recommended Action: Conduct a de novo public hearing and uphold or reverse the Zoning Administrator's decision by: 1. Finding that the project is exempt under Section 15303 of the State CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) Guidelines — Class 3 (New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures) and adopt the draft resolution for approval to uphold the Zoning Administrator's decision and approve Modification Permit No. MD2013 -023 (Attachment No. PC 1); or 2. Adopting the draft resolution for denial to reverse the Zoning Administrator's decision (Attachment No. PC 2). Find that the project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15270 of the CEQA Guidelines. VIII. STAFF AND COMMISSIONER ITEMS III:I •U RI&]o■7i]CIN: Ki]Z69U]:1[7_VIf z IiI�P�I�U�: �Ki] �tl�d1I�I1��l ��l�i 7J�41��1I�71Nx�i��]Y�Y:7�lilil Committee Updates: 1. Land Use Element Amendment Advisory Committee 2. General Plan /Local Coastal Program Implementation Committee ITEM NO. 7 ANNOUNCEMENTS ON MATTERS THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBERS WOULD LIKE PLACED ON A FUTURE AGENDA FOR DISCUSSION, ACTION, OR REPORT ITEM NO. 9 REQUESTS FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES IX. ADJOURNMENT 4 of 4