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Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, adopt resolution certifying Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR 04-16), and make certain findings relative thereto, adopt a Statement of Overriding Considerations and a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for 40 new detached single-family homes located at 3655 North Norwalk Boulevard (SCH#2016081047);
Uphold the Planning Commission’s recommendations to the City Council and deny an appeal by Warren Blesofsky and Long Beach Citizens for Fair Development;
DISCUSSION
On January 5, 2017, the Planning Commission held a public hearing and voted 6-0 to recommend that the City Council: certify the Environmental Impact Report (EIR 04-16); adopt Findings and a Statement of Overriding Considerations; adopt a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program; approve a General Plan Amendment from Land Use Designation No. 10 (Institutional and School) to Land Use Designation No. 1 (Single-Family District); approve a Zone Change from Institutional (I) to Single-Family Residential (R-1-M); approve a Vesting Tentative Tract Map (VTTM) for a subdivision of 5.76 acres into 40 residential lots; and approve a Site Plan Review (SPR) for 40 new detached single-family homes on a site located at 3655 N. Norwalk Boulevard.
The 5.76-acre project site is bounded by the Artesia-Norwalk drainage channel to the west, a multi-family senior housing development within the City of Hawaiian Gardens to the north, single-family dwellings to the south, and single-family dwellings to the east across Norwalk Boulevard (Exhibit A - Location Map). The project site was developed with a church in 1963, and the church has been vacant since February 2016. No church services or activities are currently being conducted at the site. The applicant proposes to demolish the existing church and build a new residential community with gated access, private streets, common open space areas, and open spac...
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