City of Long Beach - File #: 20-0782

• File #: 20-0782
• Version: 2
• Name: DS - 901-945 E. Pacific Coast Highway – Senior Housing Development
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Second Reading
• File created: 8/4/2020
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 8/18/2020
• Final action: 9/1/2020
• Title: 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 CHW (Regional Highway Commercial) to CCN (Community R-4-N Commercial), read and adopted as read. (District 6)
• Sponsors: Development Services

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/1/2020	2	City Council	approve recommendation and adopt	Pass
8/25/2020	1	City Council	declare ordinance read the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading	Pass
8/18/2020	1	City Council	laid over	Pass

TITLE
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 CHW (Regional Highway Commercial) to CCN (Community R-4-N Commercial), read and adopted as read. (District 6)

DISCUSSION
On August 6, 2020, the Planning Commission held a public hearing and recommended that the City Council approve a zoning change from Regional Highway Commercial (CHW) to Community R-4-N Commercial (CCN) (Attachment A - Planning Commission Report), to facilitate a development project located at 901-945 East Pacific Coast Highway (APN’s 7210-013-026, 023, 900, and 901) (Attachment B - Location Map).

The site is immediately bordered by residential uses to the north, across the alley; commercial uses to the south, across Pacific Coast Highway; commercial uses to the west, across Myrtle Avenue; and, commercial uses to the east, across Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard. The CHW zoning district is a commercial zone that permits retail and service uses. Multi-family residential uses are not permitted in the CHW zone. The General Plan’s Land Use Element, adopted in December 2019, designates the project site as NSC-M (Neighborhood Serving Center or Corridor - Moderate Density). This PlaceType is a mixed-use land use designation that allows neighborhood-serving, medium-intensity commercial uses and medium-density apartment and condominium buildings. The NSC-M designation allows up to seven stories in height and residential densities characterized with 54 dwelling units per acre (du/acre), depending on lot size.

The applicant seeks a zoning change to CCN to allow for the construction of the proposed senior housing in accordance with the CCN development standards (Attachment C - Development Plans). The CCN zoning district is similar to the Regional Highway District but differs in that it is a mixed-use zone that also permits medium density residential de...