City Council
MEETING DATE: 9/26/2018
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Specific Plan Amendment 95-53A Cathedral City Auto Center Specific Plan
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FROM:
Pat Milos, Community Development Director
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council approve the Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) for the project; hold a public hearing; and introduce and provide first reading by title only to an ordinance approving specific plan amendment 95-53A.
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BACKGROUND:
In 1995, the City Council Adopted the Cathedral City Auto Center Specific Plan (Specific Plan No. 95-53) to prescribe appropriate land use regulations and property development standards to enhance, reinforce and expand the "Desert Auto Park" new car sales and service complex and encourage compatible automotive-related commercial sales and services in proximity to this complex. (see Attachment 1)
The Cathedral City Auto Center Specific Plan (ACSP) provides for two "combining districts", (1) New Car Sales and Service District and (2) Automotive-Related Compatible Commercial District. These combining districts are intended to revise and refine the underlying zoning designations, as defined in the Zoning Ordinance, and limit both the permitted and conditional uses to those appropriate to the objectives of the Specific Plan.
The project proposes to amend the Specific Plan boundaries to remove the subject six parcels from the ACSP (see Attachment 2). These parcels would remain subject to the standards and regulations of the underlying PCC (Planned Community Commercial) zoning designation. The amendment does not propose to change either the current General Plan land use designation or the underlying PCC zoning designation.
The subject six parcels encompass a total of 6.92 acres and are within the Automotive-Related Compatible Commercial District. Four of the six properties have been developed with auto body and collision shops and automobile service ce...
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