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ua�, COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Hearing Date: September 12, 2000
PLANNING DEPARTMENT Agenda Item No.: 17
&woNEWPORTBOULEVARD Staff Person: Patrick J. Alford
NEWNEWPORT BEACH, CA 9260 (949) 644 -3235
(949) 644-3200: FAX (949) 644-3250
REPORT TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
SUBJECT:
SUMMARY:
ACTION:
Background
Newport Dunes Resort (Newport Dunes Partnership, applicant)
A General Plan Amendment, Local Coastal Program Land Use Plan
Amendment, Zoning Code Amendment, and Planned Community District Plan
for the 100 -acre Newport Dunes property and a conceptual precise plan for a
hotel and time -share complex with conference, meeting, and banquet facilities,
restaurants, a health club and spa, retail and services areas, and swimming
pools and landscaped garden areas.
• General Plan Amendment No. 97 -3 (F)
• Local Coastal Plan Amendment No. 51
• Zoning Code Amendment No. 878
• Planned Community District Plan (PC -48)
• Development Agreement No. 12
• Traffic Study No. 115
• Conceptual Precise Plan for Planning Unit 1
Remove from calendar.
The City Council held its first public hearing on the project on June 13, 2000. After presentations by
staff and the Chairman of the Planning Commission, the project was continued to June 27, 2000, due
to the lateness of the hour. On June 27, 2000, the applicant's presentation was made and public
testimony was received. The City Council continued the hearing to September 12, 2000 due to
anticipated absences of City Council members.
Discussion:
The applicant has requested that the project be removed from the calendar. Staff has no objection to
the request since it is a legislative act and there are no deadlines imposed by Permit Streamlining Act.
The project will be re- noticed after the new hearing date is determined.
Submitted by:
SHARON WOOD
Assistant City Manager
Prepared by:
PATRICK J. ALFORD
Senior Planner
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Attachment: Letter from the applicant requesting removal from the calendar.
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September 5, 2000
Mayor John E. Noyes and Members of the City Council
City of Newport Beach
3300 Newport Boulevard
Newport Beach, CA 92663
Re: Newport Dunes Resort
Dear Mayor Noyes and Councilmembers:
As you know, the Newport Dunes Resort Hotel project has been moving through the City of
Newport Beach's public review process since it was first presented almost four years ago, most
recently through the circulation of the Draft Environmental Impact Report and our initial
presentation to the Newport Beach Planning Commission in Fall 1999.
In our opinion, and we feel in the opinion of most of the Newport Beach community, the review
process has worked exactly as it was designed. It encouraged extensive input from the
community, the good faith responsiveness of the applicant, and the contributions of the expertise
of the Planning Commission and the City staff, over a series of seven public hearings and three
study sessions covering more than six months.
As a result, the project was refined, conditioned, and improved to the point that the Planning
Commission was able to present it to the City Council at your meeting of June 13, 2000 with a
unanimous recommendation for approval.
At your meeting of June 27h, following three hours of public testimony leaning heavily toward
support of the project, the City Council voted to continue the item to the meeting of September
12,2000.
We continue to believe he Newport Dunes Resort Hotel, as currently proposed, will be of
significant benefit to the community aesthetically, environmentally, socially and economically.
We feel that, judged on its merits, it is a project deserving of continued strong support and
ultimate approval.
1131 Back Bay Drive • Newport Beach, California 92660 • (949) 729 -3863 • www.newportdunes.com
Mayor John E. Noyes and Members of the City Council
September 5, 2000
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Realistically, however, given the few Council meetings before the November election (during
which important decisions will be made by the voters concerning the future of Newport Beach)
and the impending holidays, we feel there is simply too much on the table, for both the
community and the Council, to allow for the extensive deliberation this project requires and the
thoughtful consideration it deserves.
During this time, we will continue, among other things, to review the feasibility of our currently -
entitled motel /retail /restaurant complex, an alternative that is not the direction we would
otherwise choose to go, but which would allow us to move forward with certainty.
We, therefore, respectfully request that consideration of the Newport Dunes Resort Hotel
proposal be further postponed, possibly until after the holiday season, by taking the item "off -
calendar" and removing it from the City Council agenda. We understand that, at such time as we
and the City Council are prepared to once again address this issue, the item will be renoticed.
Thank you for honoring our request.
Sincerely,
Anne L. Evans
Tim Quinn
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Robert H. Gleason
1131 Back Bay Drive • Neuport Beach, California 92660 • (949) 729 -3863 • www.newportAnes.com