Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and adopt resolution approving an Addendum to the Midtown Specific Plan Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the purpose of analyzing potential impacts related to General Plan Amendment GPA18-001; and
Report from Development Services recommendation or receive supporting documentation under the record. Conclude the public hearing and adopt a resolution approving an addendum to Midtown's specific plan IIR for the purpose of analyzing potential impacts related to General Plan Amendment and adopt resolution approving General Plan Amendment 18 Dash 001 to amend the land use element to change the land use designation of 14 properties District one and six. Okay, we have a motion and a second. We have a step up. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Carry tie. Current planning officer will provide the presentation. Good evening again. Before you as a general plan amendment item A for the area generally around the intersection of Pine Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway. On the screen, on the map is the boundaries of the existing Midtown specific plan area. There is a little red circle around the area that we will be discussing tonight. In terms of some background, the midtown specific plan was adopted by the City Council in 2016 and it generally allows for mixed uses, in other words, commercial and non-GAAP residential and nonresidential uses located in the same building. However, the underlying general plan designations at that time were not updated because it was anticipated that they would be done with the Comprehensive General Plan Amendment. However, there are and have been a series of development proposals for mixed use projects, and therefore we are asking for this a general plan amendment tonight to clean up this situation. So the purple area on the screen highlights that area that was circled in red. And and this is the scope of the general plan amendment. There is a smaller yellow dotted square that is the site of a pending site plan review application for a mixed use project. And then just that that project is a has about 3500 square feet of commercial space and 24 residential units. While it is while it would be allowed under today's Midtown specific plan, it is not allowed under the underlying general plan designation. So the requested general plan amendment would be to change the underlying designations to elude land use designation number seven, which is mixed uses. So currently on the screen, the area zoned as purple was the same one that was on the aerial. It is designated as land use designations eight end, which is shopping nodes eight P, which is pedestrian oriented retail strip A which is a traditional retail strip commercial. And those are all commercial only designations. And also portion of it is three B, which is only residential. So the change to allowed seven would allow for mixed uses in accordance with the Midtown specific plan. There is also an orange strip on the screen and that area is not within the midtown specific plan. However, changing the purple area would leave an isolated strip of a it's a it's a land use designation at a. And so rather than doing that, we are proposing to change that to a3b, which is moderate density residential, and that comports with the underlying land uses that are currently on the ground today. So on the screen is the is a rendering of that site plan review project that I mentioned that, you know, would need this general plan amendment in order to be approved. Basically, the this type of a project effectuate the vision that the Midtown specific plan has and creates a new investment, commercial and residential opportunities in the Midtown Specific Plan area. This matter for the General Plan Amendment was considered by the Planning Commission on March 1st. The Planning Commission found that the required findings for a general plan can be made in favor of this general plan amendment and also acknowledged that effectuating the Midtown specific plan, a vision would allow for the reinvestment that the city the city anticipated the project has with public notice, and the staff received several inquiries but no other opposition . Lastly, an addendum to the Midtown Specific Plan Environmental Impact Report was prepared to analyze this project and found that changing the general plan designations to comport with the Midtown specific plan zoning would not have any additional environmental impacts. Therefore, a staff recommends that the City Council and Act to the Planning Commission recommendation to approve the addendum for this action, as well as approve the General Plan Amendment itself. Thank you. And that concludes staff's presentation. Thank you. Let me open it up for any public comment on this hearing, seeing none. Then we will go back to the council. There's a motion comes from Andrews. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I'd like to thank the staff for their great work and input throughout this process. You know, the general plan amendment creates consistency between Midtown Special Plans and current general plans and has opened up the areas to the development, fitting our own change in our behavior. I'd like to thank the Medusa as a best of both worlds, because it brings the difference between us and one site. Acknowledging that the proposal for the two parishes at Pine and PCH was traditionally a strip strip mall, which has since involved into a mixed use residential project which commercial space on the ground floor. And with that, I'm asking that the council support and approve this general plan amendment. And I thank you again for a great job that you guys have put together here. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Gonzalez. Yes, I great work, Councilmember Andrews. And thank you for to staff as well. I think this area is in much need of a lot of love. And we appreciate it and thank you to Midtown as well for for being here and being a part of this process to grant you. There's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes on the hearing. Motion carries.