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Recommendation to declare ordinance amending and restating in its entirety the Long Beach Business Center Planned Development District (PD-7), read and adopted as read. (District 5)
DISCUSSION
The project site, located at 2300 Redondo Avenue, is currently the home of the United States Postal Service (USPS) Long Beach Processing & Distribution Center (P&DC). This is a regional mail processing facility, constructed approximately 40 years ago, and is one of three serving the Los Angeles metropolitan area (the other two are located in the City of Los Angeles and the City of Industry). This facility’s operations involved industrial-scale, region-serving inbound and outbound trucking and transportation of the U.S. mail, and distribution to the national and regional mail delivery networks. The Long Beach P&DC is in the process of being closed by the USPS due to budgetary and operational factors, and nearly all mail processing activities at the site have ceased. The USPS continues to operate a retail Post Office at the site, which will move by April 2018, to the newly-constructed retail Post Office facility directly east of the project site, located at 3700 E. Burnett Street. The new retail Post Office site is located on a 3.07-acre parcel subdivided out of the P&DC site and retained by the USPS; the remaining 19.091-acre development parcel was deeded to Pacific Industrial (Developer) in April 2017, after they were selected by USPS through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process.
The Developer, proposes to build a new light industrial center, named Pacific Edge, at the site of the Long Beach P&DC (Exhibit A - Project Location and Vicinity Map). The site is surrounded by industrial and institutional uses to the north, industrial uses in the City of Signal Hill across Redondo Avenue to the west, the California National Guard facility to the south, a residential neighborhood zoned R-2-N (Two-family Residential, standard lot) across the alley to the east along the sou...
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