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City Council Staff Report
Agenda Item No. 14
February 12, 2013
HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: Community Development Department
Kimberly Brandt, AICP, Director
949 - 644 -3226, kbrandt(cDnewr)ortbeachca.gov
APPROVED:
TITLE: Planning Commission Agenda Report for February 7, 2013
ITEM NO. 1 Minutes of January 17, 2013
The minutes were amended and approved (7 ayes)
AYES:
Amen, Brown, Hillgren, Kramer, Myers, Toerge, and Tucker
NOES:
None
ABSENT:
None
ABSTAIN:
None
Public Hearing Items:
ITEM NO. 2 Mariner's Pointe (PA2010 -114)
Site Location: 100 — 300 West Coast Highway
SUMMARY: A request to review proposed revisions to the approved building design, which
include replacing stone veneer from a parking structure screen wall with a false
commercial storefront for flower display, the installation of additional awnings,
and reducing the height of a primary stairwell and elevator tower. Landscaping
changes are also proposed.
Principal Planner James Campbell provided a staff report. Discussion
ensured clarifying the proposed changes to the project elevations and
landscaping, and a public hearing was conducted.
City Council Staff Report February 12, 2013
Page 2
The Planning Commission unanimously approved the project as
recommended (7 ayes).
AYES:
Ameri, Brown, Hillgren, Kramer, Myers, Toerge, and Tucker
NOES:
None
ABSENT:
None
ABSTAIN:
None
ITEM NO. 3 Uptown Newport (PA2011 -134)
Site Location: 4311 -4321 Jamboree Road, North side of Jamboree Road
between MacArthur Boulevard and Birch Street
SUMMARY: The redevelopment of a 25 -acre office and industrial site with a mixed -use
community consisting of up to 1,244 residential units, 11,500 square feet of
neighborhood- serving retail space, and two 1 -acre public parks. Residential
product types would be for sale and rental with a mix of townhomes, and mid -
and high -rise apartments and condominiums. Between 102 and 369 units would
be made available as affordable housing depending upon the target income
category (i.e. very-low, low, or moderate income households). Most buildings
would range between 30 and 75 feet in height with several residential towers up
to 150 feet in height. Project approval requires a Planned Community
Development Plan amendment and adoption, Tentative Tract Map, Traffic
Study, Affordable Housing Implementation Plan, and Development Agreement.
Associate Planner Rosalinh Ung provided a staff report summarizing the
Planning Commission's previous actions on December 20, 2012. Discussion
ensued clarifying the proposed changes to the project as directed by the
Planning Commission, and the public hearing was conducted.
The Planning Commission voted unanimously recommending the City
Council approve the Uptown Newport project as amended (7 ayes).
AYES:
Ameri, Brown, Hillgren, Kramer, Myers, Toerge, and Tucker
NOES:
None
ABSENT:
None
ABSTAIN:
None
Submitted by:
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