City of Long Beach - File #: 17-0189

• File #: 17-0189
• Version: 2
• Name: DS - R-1-L Zone Development Standards D8
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 3/3/2017
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 4/4/2017
• Final action: 4/4/2017
• Title: Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Table 31-2A, residential development standards, and by adding Section 21.31.255.F, relating to development and design standards applicable to properties in the R-1-L zoning district, read and adopted as read. (District 8)
• Sponsors: Development Services

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/4/2017	2	City Council	approve recommendation and adopt	Pass
3/21/2017	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

TITLE
Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Table 31-2A, residential development standards, and by adding Section 21.31.255.F, relating to development and design standards applicable to properties in the R-1-L zoning district, read and adopted as read. (District 8)

DISCUSSION
On February 16, 2017, the Planning Commission held a hearing on proposed Zoning Text Amendments related to development and design standards applicable to properties in the Los Cerritos - Virginia Country Club neighborhood, home of the R-1-L zoning district, and recommended unanimously that the City Council approve the proposed amendments and accept Categorical Exemption No. CE-16-340. The proposed amendments were drafted during the year-and-a-half-long development moratorium that is currently in effect for the R-1-L zoning district, the City's single-family residential zoning district for large lots found exclusively in the Los Cerritos - Virginia Country Club neighborhood.

In September 2015, the City Council adopted emergency Ordinance ORD-15-0024 (moratorium) temporarily limiting certain construction and development activities in the R-1-L zoning district. The moratorium was adopted to allow Planning Bureau staff and the Planning Commission time to study potential amendments to the Zoning Regulations in response to concerns voiced by neighborhood residents about the ability of the current R-1-L development standards to maintain the neighborhood's existing development character. The moratorium, originally set to expire on September 1, 2016, but extended to March 31, 2017, by the City Council with the adoption of Ordinance ORD-16-0018, limited new residential structures and residential additions to 1,500 square feet, a threshold chosen to allow for minor development projects, but not those which might have created adverse impacts that could potentially be inconsistent with zoning code revisions being considered during the moratorium p...