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-learing Date: September 11, 2001
Agenda Item: 15
Staff Person: James Campbell
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REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
PROJECT: Camco Pacific (PA2001 -157)
1811 Quail Street
SUMMARY: Request to initiate a General Plan Amendment to increase the
development allocation within the Airport Area 2 -7 (Statistical Area L -4),
Newport Place Block G & H to permit a 1,500 square foot addition to
an existing office building located at 1811 Quail Street.
ACTION: Initiate the amendment to the General Plan, Land Use Element as
recommended by the Planning Commission by approving GI 2001 -001.
GENERAL PLAN: Administrative, Professional Financial Commercial
ZONING
DISTRICT: Newport Place Planned Community
Planning Commission Action
On August 23, 2001, the Planning Commission considered the subject amendment and
voted to recommend approval of the initiation request.
Background
The City Council recently amended policy K -1 to permit the initiation of a general plan
amendment at any time. Additionally, an individual initiation expires within 180 days of its
approval. The revised council policy related to initiation procedures is attached as Exhibit
No. 1.
Proposed Amendment
Camco Pacific Construction has submitted a request to amend the general plan for Block G &
H of the Airport Area within the Newport Place Planned Community (Exhibit No. 2). The existing
office building located at 1811 Quail Street has been leased and the new tenant needs an
additional 1,500 square feet of office space. Blocks G & H of the Newport Place Planned
Community are presently overbuilt based upon present information. Therefore, the requested
1,500 square foot addition requires an amendment to the General Plan as well as or
amendment to the Newport place Planned Community text to increase the development
allocation. No other change to the General Plan or Newport Place Planned Community is
requested. The proposed addition will be on the second floor of the existing office building and
the building footprint will not be expanding. From the preliminary site plan supplied by the
applicant, it appears that the site will provide sufficient parking. The project also should qualify
for a Categorical Exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act.
Planning Department Workload
The Department continues to experience a high workload, and is operating beyond capacity
in some areas. Because of the high on -going workload, the Department has retained contract
staff for some development requests currently in process. The Department has recently filled a
vacant Associate Planner position with a new employee who will be starting on September
10th. In the coming months, we anticipate that the workload will ease and application
processing times will improve. With the new hire, the Planning Department will be at full staff
with no vacancies. This minor General Plan Amendment will be handled by in -house staff
within the regular caseload.
Submitted by:
PATRICIA L. TEMPLE
Planning Director
Exhibits
Prepared by:
JAMES W. CAMPBELL
Senior Planner
1. Draft Planning Commission minutes dated August 23, 2001
2. Excerpt of City Council Policy K -1
3. Initiation Request from Camco Pacific
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Camco Pacific General Plan Initiation (PA2001 -157)
September 11, 2001
Page 2 of 3
Exhibit No. 2
GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT PROCEDURES (City Council Policy K -1)
A. Amendment to the General Plan shall be initiated by the City Council after
recommendation from the Planning Commission.
B. In initiating action to amend the General Plan, the City Council shall direct the
Planning Commission to set public hearings for such amendments, as it deems
appropriate.
C. Prior to making its recommendation on the initiation of proposed General Plan
amendments, the Planning Commission may do such research, as it deems necessary
to establish whether the proposed amendment warrants consideration.
D. A citizen and /or property owner may request an amendment to the General Plan.
Such request shall be submitted in writing to the Planning Commission. The request
should clearly set forth the reason for which the request is made, and should contain
information substantiating the need. When an amendment is requested for a specific
parcel or parcels in the City, the request must be made by the property owner or his or
her authorized representative or by the Planning Commission or City Council. A
project specific amendment request shall include a quantification of the requested
density and /or intensity, land use, and a conceptual site plan.
The Planning Commission and City Council may also propose amendments to the
General Plan.
If the Planning Commission, after examination, is convinced that the proposed change
is worthy of initiation, it may recommend initiation of amendments as set forth above.
If not, the Commission shall forward the request to the City set forth above. If not, the
Commission shall forward the request to the City Council with its recommendation
that initiation of the amendment is unwarranted. The City Council, after consideration
of the request and of the report from the Planning Commission, may either initiate the
proposed amendment and direct the Planning Commission to set for public hearing,
return the request to the originator without further action, or defer action on the
proposed amendment to future hearing sessions based on Planning Department work
loads and project priorities.
E. Amendments to each General Plan element may be initiated at any time. A number
shall be assigned in sequence to each amendment or group of amendments at the
time it is initiated by the City Council.
F. If a citizen and /or property owner amendment request is initiated, all applications
related to the request must be filed within 180 days of the initiation. If applications are
not filed within this time - frame, the initiation shall expire.
Exhibit No. 1
City of Newport Beach
Planning Commission Minutes
August 23, 2001 INDEX
SUBJECT: Cameo Pacific
Item No. 1
1811 Quail Street
PA2001 -157
• PA2001 -157
Request to initiate a General Plan Amendment to increase the development
Recommended for
allocation within the Airport Area 2 -7 (Statistical Area L -4), Newport Place Block
approval
G & H to permit a 1,500 square foot addition to an existing office building
located at 1811 Quail Street.
Ms. Temple noted that this is the first time item to be heard on the revised City
Council Policy regarding amendments to the General Plan where the City will
now allow these amendments at any time rather than the previous three times a
year limit. As noted in the staff report, there is a requirement that the related
applications be filed within a six -month timeframe of initiation.
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Commissioner Agajonion asked the advisability of postponing this matter until
after the General Plan update; how long would it take for the amendment to go
through the process?
Ms. Temple answered that is certainly within the purview of the Planning
Commission's recommendation to the City Council, however, in this particular
case the requested amendment is extremely small (1,500 square feet) and is in
relationship to a specific project of the applicant. I do not believe that action
on the initiation one way or another would materially affect the City's ongoing
study of the General Plan update.
An application of this nature is in a similar timeframe to any simple zoning
application. They would normally be completed in a three or four month
period. This application will also require an amendment to the Newport Place
Planned Community to add the square footage of entitlement in the zoning
text.
Vice Chairman Kiser referred to the letter submitted as part of the application
from Cameo Pacific. It discussed square footage of existing space in the area
as of January 1987, and planned projections. It also indicates that a number of
342,641 square feet existed in that area, which is about 47,000 square feet more
than what were planned projections back in 1987. Could you explain if the
amount of space built in an area often go way over what is projected by the
City in prior years?
Ms. Temple answered that in the 1987 General Plan, all the numbers within the
plan were based on a research of building records. It was our best effort to
make those calculations as accurate as they could have been. We know that
from time to time when we research and re- analyze these areas that there was
already more development on the ground than we had found in that initial
data gathering exercise. We did disclose this to the Planning Commission and
the City Council back in 1988 when these numbers were adopted. Basically we
got there concurrence that when errors of the data were discovered that it was
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Planning Commission Minutes
August 23, 2001
not the intent of the City to make any standing development non - conforming
by virtue of adopting the more precise numbers in the General Plan. We believe
it was the intention of the City Council to establish numbers that were consistent
with the standing development. In this case, we will correct the numbers in the
Plan to reflect the standing entitlement as well as the requested addition. This
area is totally built out as for as standing entitlement goes.
Steve Labrin, Cameo Pacific Construction stated that they are purchasing this
building and hope to expand the space to accommodate the existing staff.
Because of the Greenlight issue in the area, they understand that they need to
go through this process to add this square footage on to the project. They are
requesting to do so.
Public comment was opened.
Public comment was closed.
Motion was made by Commissioner Kranzley to recommend that the City
Council approve General Plan Initiation No. 2001 -001.
Ayes: McDaniel, Kiser, Agajanian, Gifford, Kranzley
Noes: None
Absent: Tucker, Selich
SUBJECT: 4341 MacArthur Boulevard, Suite F
La Salsa; Milestone Management
• Use Permit No. 2001.018(PA2001 -086)
Use Permit to expand the seating of an existing specialty food establishment (SF#
50) from 21 seats to 36 seats with no increase in net public area. The increased
seating changes the use classification from specialty food to full service, high
turnover. This classification change increases the required parking between 7 to 17
parking spaces depending upon what parking ratio is used. No alcoholic
beverages are presently served and no ABC license is sought.
Ms. Temple noted that the applicant has requested that this item be continued to
the next meeting of September20, 2001.
Motion was made by Commissioner Kranzley to continue this item to September
20th.
Ayes: McDaniel, Kiser, Agajanian, Gifford, Kranzley
Noes: None
Absent: Tucker, Selich
INDEX
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Item No. 2
PA2001 -086
Continued to
09/20/2001
Exhibit No. 3
General Plan Amendment
Initiation Package
1811 Quail Street, Newport Beach CA
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