HomeMy WebLinkAbout13 - A Six -Month Extension to a Hoag Development Agreement (PA2018-024) - CorrespondenceReceived After Agenda Printed
February 26, 2019
Item No. 13
This document is submitted to address the February 26, 2019 meeting
of the Newport Beach City Council, agenda item XVII, #13
A SIX MONTH EXTENSION TO A HOAG DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT (PA2018-024)
This statement is submitted to register an objection to any further extension of the Hoag Restated
Development Agreement (DA) No. 5 without a new Environmental Impact Report (EIR).
The Environmental Impact Report prepared for the initial Development Agreement in 1994 is now 25
years old. If the EIR prepared for the 1994 DA is extended for an additional 25 years, as requested by
Hoag, it would result in a period of 50 years (1/2 of a century) since the initial EIR. This is unacceptable.
The Supplemental EIR conducted in 2008 for the Modified DA is also insufficient to allow further
development of any kind without a new EIR. A 25 year extension would result in a period of 35 years
without an intervening EIR. This too is unacceptable.
During the past 25 years the City of Newport Beach has experienced significant development including
West Newport Beach. The expansion and development during the past 10 years has been exponential.
Congestion in the vicinity of Hoag has increased substantially. Only a new EIR can appropriately address
the concerns of the Newport Beach Community to ensure that any further expansion will occur only
after a thorough review of the environmental impact of such development within the Coastal Zone.
Any further development by Hoag without a new EIR must, and will, be vigorously opposed.
L. R. Runyon
200 Paris Lane, #208
Newport Beach, CA 92663