Planning Commission
MEETING DATE: 11/1/2017
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CASE NO. Specific Plan Amendment Nos. 07-001A and 12-001A
APPLICANT: City of Cathedral City
LOCATION: North City Specific Plan area and North City Extended Specific Plan area, north of Interstate 10, east of Palm Drive, and west of Bob Hope Drive.
REQUEST: Amendment to the North City Specific Plan and North City Extended Specific Plan
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STAFF: Erica L. Vega, Assistant City Attorney
RECOMMENDATION:
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Approve the attached Planning Commission resolution recommending the City Council approve an amendment to the North City Specific Plan and North City Extended Specific Plan allowing cannabis businesses and reducing the commercial square footage requirements in the Mixed Use-Urban district, and finding such amendments to be exempt from CEQA.
Alternatively, the Planning Commission may move to recommend that the City Council not adopt the proposed amendments to the North City Specific Plan and North City Extended Specific Plan, and recommend that the City Council direct that the issue of how best to accommodate cannabis businesses in the North City area be further studied and brought forth for consideration.
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FINDINGS:
Amending the NCSP and NCESP to allow all cannabis businesses in the Business Park, Light Industrial, Mixed Use-Urban, and Mixed Use-Neighborhood (NCESP only) districts is consistent with the City's General Plan. Policy 5 of the Community Development Element of the General Plan states that land planning for the North City area shall take into account the limited infrastructure and physical constraints in the North City. Cannabis businesses, especially cultivation and manufacturing uses, do not generate high traffic volumes or result in large infrastructure needs as compared to other uses that are appropriate in Light Industrial, Business Park and Mixed Use-Urban districts. Therefore, it is appropriate to encourage cannabis uses to locate in the North City area. In ad...
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