Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Use District Map of the City of Long Beach as said Map has been established and amended by amending portions of Part 10 of said Map from Community Commercial Automobile-Oriented (CCA) to Community R-4-N (CCN), read and adopted as read.  (District 2)
We do have one hearing. So let's go ahead and hear the hearing, please. Which is item which is item 13? Item 13. Report from Development Services Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing and determine the project. 23 for sale market rate townhomes at 2200 through 2212 East seventh Street 600 through 620 Dalton Avenue and six $21 Avenue is within the scope of the project and warrants no further environmental review pursuant to secure and declared ordinance approving a zone change. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading District two. I'd like to introduce I'd like to introduce Oscar Orsi, Development Services Director, to kick off this presentation. Yes, thank you. Good evening, Mayor. Members of the City Council. The following is a public hearing. The following public hearing is a request to approve a zone change for 23 townhomes located within the Rose Park neighborhood. Ms.. Patricia Defender will provide a presentation. Good evening, Mayor. Vice Mayor. Council members. As mentioned the item before you is a request for a zone change from. Pardon me. Is a zone change from the K zone, which is the commercial community commercial automobile oriented zone to the CNR zone, which is the commercial residential community are for and C can zone. Oops. Pardon? The location of the proposed zone change area is 2202 2212 East Seventh Street and 600 to 620 Dawson Avenue. The current zoning is the key zone in the CNR zone. The site is a 0.78 acre site and currently developed with a parking lot. The subject area is designated by the general plan as the neighborhood serving centers and corridors. Moderate general plan, place type. The surrounding context is a mix of commercial institutional uses as well as some other. Some family. Some residential uses on the West Side. On January 21st, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on this item and recommend took the following actions. It recommended that the City Council approve the zone change. It also approved a site plan review, investing tentative track map and administrative use permit associated with the project. Final approval of the project is contingent on a zone change. There were a total of 17 comments received on the proposal. 14 letters of support, three letters of concern, concerns related to issues of crime, parking and displacement of the current community. The so we talked about the current zoning and the proposed zoning would be consistent with the general plan, land use place type of neighborhood serving commercial center and corridors. And as a result, that's the general plan. Land use element did identify this area as a major area of change to accommodate mixed use development and the needs for housing in the in city. And this zone change proposal would be consistent with that place type just by way of some background, even though the project specifically is not before the council. The project is a 23 unit for sale townhome project. That would be three stories in height. It has some gas parking styles that are located off side across the street. It does meet all the open space and other development standards. There was an environmental compliance checklist to the program Environmental Impact Report for the land use element prepared for this project, and it was found to have adequately analyzed the impacts which were previously analyzed in. The earlier air. And there would be no further impacts that have not been analyzed and no further environmental. Review is required. So with that, the recommendation is that the City Council determined that the project is within the scope of the previously analyzed air and declared ordinance to approve the zone change from the CCR to the end zone for the subject area. That concludes the staff presentation. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you. We will go. I don't see. Is there any public is there any other comment on this? Let's go to and go to that first. There might be, too, I think. But Mr. Mayor, we also have the applicant. And if you want to start with the applicant. Sure. What's going to hear from the applicant? Matt Hamilton. Hi, this is Matt Hamilton, the project applicant. Just wanted to thank staff for all their efforts in getting us to this point. We're excited to move forward with the project and happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. Thank you. We have one public comment. Derek Burnham. Hi. Derek Burnham with the applicant's team as well. Just, just wanted to reiterate Matt's comment that we are happy with staff moving this forward and look forward additional support tonight and are excited to build this project. Thank you. Turn this over to Councilman Allen, who got a motion. I thank you, Mayor. This is a very exciting project and a welcome addition to our Rose Park neighborhood. I strongly support the project and the zone change that is required. This project advances our land use goals and adds to the city's housing stock. And most importantly, the project is supported by our community. I know that there are several letters of support, including letters from the Rose Park Neighborhood Association. And in May those folks have been in close communication with my office. So just think. Thank you for all of your reaching out. I do appreciate that this is a much needed project and I know that we are all looking forward to the revitalization of this space. I would like to give a special hats off to the owner and developer Matt Hamilton, who was really exemplified how a developer should work with the city and the community on a particular project. He has prioritized community outreach and developed a really good relationship with them, with our residents. I know the people in the neighborhood know him. He has addressed each of their concerns and even offered space, outdoor space during the pandemic. So I congratulations, Matt, on a great project. I know that you have spoken to my staff and I look forward to speaking with you and meeting with you as well in the near future. I want to give a special thank you to Eric Lopez and the public works team for all the work on this project and seeing this come to fruition. And and just on a separate note, I know that many of our neighbors, our neighbors in Rose Park continue to express concerns about the traffic and the speed along Seventh Street. So we'll continue to work with that and address that. So, again, congratulations and thank you for everyone that worked on this project. Councilwoman. I can have a second, please, on Councilwoman Allen's motion. I have a second buy comes from Ringo. There is no additional comment. We will go to roll call. Vote, please. Councilwoman Sun has. High. Councilwoman Allen. I can swim in price. I councilman's up now. All right. Councilwoman Mongo. Hi. Councilwoman Sara, I council member oranga. By Councilman Austin. Vice Mayor Richardson, motion carries.