City Council
MEETING DATE: 1/24/2018
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General Plan Amendment No. 17-001, Change of Zone No. 17-002, Specific Plan Amendment No. 07-001B
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FROM:
Robert Rodriguez, Planning Manager
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council approve an exemption to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section No. 15061(b)(3); and approve the first reading of an ordinance, by title only, approving General Plan Amendment No. 17-001, Change of Zone No. 17-002 and Specific Plan Amendment No. 07-001B.
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BACKGROUND:
A Tentative Parcel Map (TPM 30726), and the associated Mitigated Negative Declaration, for the subject property was approved by the City Council on September 28, 2005 for a future industrial development (see Attachment 2). At the time of approval, the property was designated in the General Plan as I (Industrial) with a zoning designation of I-1 (Light Industrial). In the intervening years, the Tentative Parcel Map received multiple map extensions, and a Final Parcel Map was recently approved by the City.
In 2007, the City began the process to develop a specific plan (North City Specific Plan) for the entire area north of Interstate 10 within the City boundary including recently annexed land. As the Tentative Parcel Map was located within this area, the owners participated in the community and stakeholder meetings with City staff, to ensure their project would be part of the new specific plan. In July 2009, the North City Specific Plan was approved by the City Council (Ordinance 680).
Earlier this year, the current owners of the property began working with the City to finalize the Tentative Parcel Map. At that time, it was discovered that a portion of the property was inadvertently changed to a land use designation of open space during the adoption of the North City Specific Plan. On July 6, 2017, the applicant submitted applications for a General Plan Amendment and Change of Zone (with the City ...
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