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Adopt resolution amending the Land Use Element of the General Plan from LUD No. 10 (Institutional and School) to LUD No. 1 (Single-Family District);
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 space trails within the project site.
A General Plan Amendment is required in order to develop a residential project on the site, because the current General Plan designation of the site is Land Use District (LUD) No. 10 Institutional and School, reflecting the site’s former use as a church. The applicant is requesting LUD No. 1 Single-Family as the appropriate designation for the project site, as it allows the co...
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