Recommendation to declare an interim ordinance amending Ordinance No. ORD-15-0024 relating to the extension of the temporary limitation (moratorium) of certain construction and development activities in the R-1-L zone in the Los Cerritos and Virginia Country Club areas of the City; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopted as read. (Ordinance No. ORD-16-0018) (District 8)
Are you are you doing the first hearing or are you doing hearing to first? Why don't we do the first hearing and then we'll do the budget hearing. So let's do hearing one. Report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing. Declare ordnance relating to the extension of the temporary limitation on certain construction and development activities in the one L Zone in the low Cerritos and Virginia Country Club areas of the city. Read the first time and lay it over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading, declaring the urgency there. Urban declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately. District eight. Mr. Modica. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Linda Tatum will give the report for staff. Good afternoon, Mayor, and members of the City Council. In September of 2015, the City Council adopted an ordinance to initiate a moratorium on new residential structures and additions exceeding 1500 square feet in the R-1 L zone. As you probably know, the R one IL is a very unique zone in the city. It is for estate homes and it is the only area of the city that has very specific zoning for large properties and large homes. And this is in the lower Cerritos and the Virginia Country Club areas of the city. The moratorium is currently set to expire on September 1st of 2016, and the purpose of the moratorium was to allow the development services staff and the Planning Commission time to revisit the current development standards and to study potential amendments to this zoning designation to address the issue of mansion ization. And as a result of this process, there was a core group of neighborhood representatives and staff has met with this group on several occasions. However, additional time is needed in order to to fully flesh out the analysis that has already been conducted. We've conducted significant analysis already, but what we really need and what we committed to at the very beginning of this process is to have a very full and robust dialog with the community. So the request for additional time is to engage the community and to present the analysis that has been conducted by staff and to get feedback from the community. And a part of that includes a series of community meetings, as well as taking the proposed recommendations to the Planning Commission and of course, back here to the City Council. So with that, our staff is recommending that we that the city council approve a six month extension to the moratorium that would end on December I'm sorry, March 31st, 2017. That concludes Tharp's comments, and I'm available for any questions you might have. And Mr. Vice Mayor, just a reminder that this item, if it does move forward, requires two votes, one on the urgency of the matter and then on the ordinance amended itself. Certainly. Thank you. So at this point, before we open it up for public comment with the maker of the motion, like to speak to this. Sure. Thank you. And thank you, Ms.. Tatum, for the staff report. I want to thank the residents who have been participating in this conversation with the Development Services Department, and I want to thank staff for engaging. Obviously, we are not there yet. We are still in the process. There are a certain few things that need to be worked out and I think Mr. Tatum explained that pretty clearly, particularly when we brought this forward. We had a expectation that there would be a community process and that hasn't happened yet. And so before we move forward, can I just. Miss Tatum, can you tell me what what? Did a substantial. And on some items and we're still working on others. And as we were preparing for the community meetings, the the residential neighborhood or the representatives specifically asked that that that those meetings not be held during the month of September.