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CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2025
REGULAR MEETING - 6:00 P.M.
MARK ROSENE
Chair
TRISTAN HARRIS
Vice Chair
DAVID SALENE
Secretary
CURTIS ELLMORE JONATHAN LANGFORD
LEE LOWREY
GREG REED
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 table in front are City staff
members who are here to advise the Commission during the meeting. They are:
SEIMONE JURJIS, Assistant City Manager/Community Development Director
JAIME MURILLO, Deputy Community Development Director
YOLANDA SUMMERHILL, Assistant City Attorney BRAD SOMMERS, 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 6:00
p.m. The agendas, minutes, and staff reports are available on the City's website at: http://www.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.
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and items not on the agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Commission. The Commission may limit public comments
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NEWPORT BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 100 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2025
REGULAR MEETING – 6:00 P.M.
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. 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 JANUARY 23, 2025
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 POM & OLIVE RESTAURANT (PA2024-0088)
Site Location: 325 Old Newport Boulevard, Suite 1
Summary:
A conditional use permit to obtain a Type 41 (On-Sale Beer and Wine – Eating Place) Alcoholic
Beverage Control (ABC) License for an existing food service, eating and drinking establishment
(restaurant) known as “Pom & Olive”. Additionally, the Applicant requests the continuation of a
parking waiver of 18 spaces (based on current code standards). No late hours (after 11 p.m.),
live entertainment, or dancing is proposed as part of the project. Additionally, no physical
changes to the suite or other changes to the existing operational characteristics are proposed.
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Recommended Actions:
1. Conduct a public hearing;
2. Find this project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant
to Section 15301 under Class 1 (Existing Facilities) of the CEQA Guidelines, because it
has no potential to have a significant effect on the environment; and
3. Adopt Resolution No. PC2025-005 approving a Conditional Use Permit pursuant to
PA2024-0088.
ITEM NO. 3 NORTH NEWPORT CENTER PLANNED COMMUNITY (PC-56) AMENDMENTS
(PA2024-0173)
Site Location: Various locations in the North Newport Center Planned Community
(PC-56) and 100 and 190 Newport Center Drive
Summary:
A request to amend the PC-56 Development Plan primarily to allow for the development of
additional housing opportunities in alignment with the housing strategy identified by the City’s
6th Cycle Housing Element. The Applicant also requests other changes, including increased
building height limits for Fashion Island, Block 100, and San Joaquin Plaza, modified open space
requirements, additional objective design standards, modified parking standards for residential,
updated sign standards, and other minor text changes. The amendments include changing the
zoning of 100 and 190 Newport Center Drive from OR (Office-Regional) to PC-56. No
construction is currently proposed. Additionally, the Applicant requests approval of a
development agreement to vest the development rights in exchange for public benefits including
an affordable housing implementation plan (AHIP) that describes the affordable housing
obligations. As required by State Law, the project includes a water supply assessment (WSA)
to evaluate the City’s ability to meet the water needs of future residents of the housing projects.
The WSA is required as the project includes more than 500 dwelling units.
Recommended Actions:
1. Conduct a public hearing;
2. Find this project is not subject to further environmental review pursuant to Section
21083.3 of the California Public Resources Code (PRC) and Section 15183 of the CEQA
Guidelines because the Project is consistent with the previously certified Program
Environmental Impact Report (SCH No. 2023060699); and
3. Adopt Resolution No. PC2025-006 recommending City Council approval of the Planned
Community Development Plan (PC-56) Amendment, Development Agreement,
Affordable Housing Implementation Plan, and Water Supply Assessment for various
properties within the PC-56 Zoning District and 100 and 190 Newport Center Drive
(PA2024-0173).
VIII. NEW BUSINESS
ITEM NO. 4 GENERAL PLAN ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT (PA2025-0008)
Site Location: Citywide
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Summary:
Annual progress report on the status and implementation of the General Plan and Housing
Element as required by State law and General Plan Implementation Program 1.3.
Recommended Actions:
1.Find the preparation, review and submission of the 2024 General Plan Annual Progress
Report and Housing Element Report not subject to the California Environmental Quality
Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15060(b)(2) 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;
2.Review and comment on the 2024 General Plan Progress Report, including the Housing
Element Annual Progress Report; and
3.Recommend the City Council review and authorize the submittal of the 2024 General
Plan Progress Report to the California Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI)
and the submittal of the Housing Element portion of the Annual Progress Report to the
State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
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