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CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE
THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2021 REGULAR MEETING - 6:30 P.M. ERIK WEIGAND Chair LEE LOWREY
0BVice Chair LAUREN KLEIMAN Secretary
3BCURTIS ELLMORE
4BSARAH KLAUSTERMEIER 5BPETER KOETTING 6BMARK ROSENE 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 four-year terms. At the tables in front are City staff members who are here to advise the Commission during the meeting. They are:
1BSEIMONE JURJIS, Community Development Director
2BJIM CAMPBELL, Deputy Community Development Director
YOLANDA SUMMERHILL, Assistant City Attorney TONY BRINE, City Traffic Engineer CLARIVEL RODRIGUEZ, 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 website at: http://www.newportbeachca.gov. 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.
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NEWPORT BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE THURSDAY, JULY 8, 2021 REGULAR MEETING – 6:30 P.M. I. CALL TO ORDER
II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE III. ROLL CALL IV. ELECTION OF OFFICERS
ITEM NO. 1 ELECTION OF OFFICERS Summary: The Planning Commission’s adopted rules require the election of officers at its annual meeting, which occurs at the first meeting of July each year. Officers include the Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary and they would serve for a one-year term. Recommended Action: 1. Find this action not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3; 2. Nominate Planning Commission officers consisting of Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary; and 3. Appoint the officers by majority approval of a motion either individually or as one motion for all positions. V. 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. VI. REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCES VII. CONSENT ITEMS ITEM NO. 2 MINUTES OF JUNE 3, 2021 Recommended Action: Approve and file. VIII. 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.
Planning Commission Regular Meeting Agenda July 8, 2021
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ITEM NO. 3 APPEAL OF INTERPRETATION ALLOWING ACCESSORY RESIDENTIAL WITHIN RESORT HOTELS (PA2021-096) Site Location: Various Resort Hotel Properties Summary: An appeal of the Community Development Director’s determination, issued on April 30, 2021, interpreting accessory residential as an allowed use within resort hotels. This determination is consistent with City
Council Policy K-4 (Reducing the Barriers to the Creation of Housing). Recommended Action:
1. Conduct a de novo public hearing;
2. Find the Director’s Determination is exempt from the California Environmentally Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations,
Title 14, Division 6, Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly. This Director’s Determination is also exempt that CEQA
Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), the general rule common sense exemption that CEQA applies only when there is the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment; and
3. Adopt Resolution No. PC2021-016 denying an appeal and upholding the Community
Development Director’s Determination No. DD2021-001, and associated findings. ITEM NO. 4 BSP BRISTOL, LLC MEDICAL OFFICES (PA2020-052) Site Location: 1400 and 1420 North Bristol Street Summary:
A condominium conversion in conjunction with a tentative parcel map to convert two existing two-story office buildings to medical office condominiums, creating between 22 to 30 ownership units. The applicant
is also requesting a conditional use permit for the reduction of 38 on-site parking spaces to accommodate the conversion to medical office.
Recommended Action: No action as this item has been removed from calendar. Future consideration of this project will require
new notice. IX. STAFF AND COMMISSIONER ITEMS ITEM NO. 5 MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION ITEM NO. 6 REPORT BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR OR REQUEST FOR MATTERS WHICH A PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBER WOULD LIKE PLACED ON A FUTURE AGENDA. ITEM NO. 7 REQUESTS FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES X. ADJOURNMENT