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Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the zoning designation of the site from Institutional (I) and Medium Industrial (IM) to Park (P) and Community Commercial Automobile Oriented District (CCA), read and adopted as read.
DISCUSSION
Proiect Obiectives
The project seeks to accomplish two primary goals. The first is to develop a sports park within the City of Long Beach to assist in meeting the demand for adult and youth league sports facilities. This is consistent with the spirit and intent of the recently adopted Open Space and Recreation Element (OSRE) that encourages the provision of new recreation uses. The proposed sports park will also free up space for children’s sports leagues in neighborhood and community parks by providing space for adult leagues in accordance with the OSRE policy to “give preference to children’s sports over adult sports leagues in neighborhood parks”.
The second primary goal of the project is the redevelopment of a blighted site. The proposed project will result in the viable redevelopment of a currently blighted and underused site with a use that will result in the remediation of existing soil conditions and the provision of needed recreation facilities for the residents of the City.
Oriqinal Master Plan/Planninq Commission Action
The master plan that was presented to the Planning Commission for consideration on October
20,2005 included six lighted baseball/softball diamonds, four lighted soccer fields, a skate park,
batting cages, two playgrounds/tot lots, two volleyball courts, covered sports pavilions for indoor
soccer, maintenance facilities and a youth golf training center.
The other project entitlements requested at the meeting included certification of the Recirculated
EIR, General Plan Amendment to change the designation of the site from General Industry (LUD
#9G) to Open Space and Park District (LUD#I 1 ) and Traditional Retail Strip Commercial District
(LUD#8A), Zone Change from Institutional (I) and Medi...
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