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Home My WebLink AboutPC AgendaPLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH COUNCIL CHAMBERS - 3300 NEWPORT BLVD. Thursday, February 9, 2006 Regular Meeting - 6:30 p.m. MICHAEL TOERGE Chairman JEFFREY COLE LARRY TUCKER ROBERT HAWKINS BARRY EATON EARL MCDANIEL MICHAEL HENN 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: PATRICIA TEMPLE, Planning Director JAMES CAMPBELL, Senior Planner GINGER VARIN, Planning Commission Secretary RICH EDMONSTON, Transportation & Development Services Manager AARON C. HARP, Assistant City Attorney 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. Staff reports or other written documentation have been prepared for each item of business listed on the agenda. If you have any questions or require copies of any of the staff reports or other documentation please contact the Planning Department staff at (949) 644 -3200. The agendas, minutes and staff reports are also available on the City's web site. The address is: hftp://www.city.newport-beach.ca.us/. 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 at 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 Ginger Varin, Planning Commission Secretary at (949) 644 -3232, at least 48 hours prior to the meeting to inform us of your particular needs and to determine if accommodation is feasible. APPEAL PERIOD: Use Permit, Variance, Site Plan Review, Resubdivision, and Modification applications do not become effective until 14 days after the date of approval, during which time an appeal may be filed with the City Council. General Plan and Zoning Amendments are automatically forwarded to the City Council for final action. 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. NEWPORT BEACH PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA Council Chambers - 3300 Newport Boulevard February 9, 2006 CALL TO ORDER 6:30 p.m. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL: 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 3- minutes. Before speaking, please state your name for the record. REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCES: CONSENT CALENDAR Notice to the Public All matter(s) listed under CONSENT CALENDAR (Items 1 and 2) are considered by the Commission to be routine and will all be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. The Planning Commission Members have received detailed staff reports on each of the items recommending an action. There will be no separate discussion of these items prior to the time the Commission votes on the motion unless members of the Commission, staff or the public request specific items to be discussed and /or removed from the Consent Calendar for separate action. Members of the public who wish to discuss a Consent Calendar item should come forward to the lectern upon invitation by the Chairman, state their name and Consent Calendar Item number. ITEM NO. 1. Minutes of the adjourned meeting of December 6, 2005. ITEM NO. 2. Minutes of the adjourned meeting of January 19, 2006 ACTION: Approve as written and order filed. HEARING ITEMS: ITEM NO. 3. The Natural Solution Directcare 359 San Miguel Drive, Suite 107 SUMMARY: An appeal of the approval of Planning Director's Use Permit No.2005 -053, submitted by The Natural Solution Directcare, to allow the introduction of an independent massage facility in conjunction with an accupressure/accupuncture and wellness center. The facility is located within an existing multi - tenant commercial building. No new construction is proposed with this application and the massage use will be provided within one of the three treatment rooms. Also included in the application is a waiver of the location requirements that limit the distance between such independent massage establishments to a minimum of 500 feet. ACTION: Recommend the Planning Commission uphold the decision of the Planning Director and deny the appeal. ALL TESTIMONY GIVEN BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS TAPE RECORDED, SPEAKERS MUST LIMIT REMARKS TO THREE MINUTES ON ALL ITEMS. (Red light signifies when three minutes are up; yellow light signifies that the speaker has one minute left for summation.) ITEM NO. 4. CalTrans West SUMMARY: Amend the current General Plan land use designation of the site from Single Family Attached (SFA) residential to Recreational & Environmental Open Space (REOS). For consistency with the proposed General Plan Amendment, a Code Amendment is required to repeal the Planned Community text and change the zoning designation of the site to Open Space- Active (OS -A), and a Local Coastal Plan Amendment is required to change the coastal land use designation from Medium Density Residential (RM -B) to Open Space (OS). ACTION: Recommend approval of the General Plan Amendment No. 2006 -001, Local Coastal Plan Amendment No. 2006 -001 and Code Amendment No. 2006 -001 to the City Council. (PA2006 -016) ITEM NO. 5 Widening Coast Highway Between Dover Drive and Rocky Point SUMMARY: Discussion of the widening or improvement of Coast Highway between Dover Drive and Rocky Point to provide three westbound lanes as a priority project for the 2006 Capital Improvement Program (CIP). ACTION: Discussion item ITEM NO. 6. Sober Living by the Sea 2811 Villa Way SUMMARY: Request for approval for Use Permit No. 2005 -031 to allow a substance abuse counseling center. The application also requests the approval of an Off -Site Parking Agreement and a Modification Permit to allow the construction and use of an off -site parking lot located at 2807 Lafayette Avenue, accommodating 12 employee parking spaces, two pair of which will be in tandem configuration. Additionally, a parking waiver of 43 spaces is requested in association with the use. ACTION: Approve Use Permit No. 2005 -031, Off -Site Parking Agreement No. 2005 -005, and Modification Permit No. 2005 -133 subject to findings and conditions of approval (PA2005 -136). ADDITIONAL BUSINESS: a) City Council Follow -up - b) Report from Planning Commission's representative to the Economic Development Committee - c) Report from Planning Commission's representatives to the General Plan Update Committee — d) Report from Planning Commission's representative to the Local Coastal Plan Certification Committee — e) Report from Planning Commission's representative to the Zoning Committee - f) Matters which a Planning Commissioner would like staff to report on at a subsequent meeting - 5 g) Matters which a Planning Commissioner may wish to place on a future agenda for action and staff report - h) Project status — i) Requests for excused absences - ADJOURNMENT: A