TITLE
Adopt resolution amending the Zoning Code (ZCA18-002) by amending the Midtown Specific Plan (SP-1) to address technical errors and provide clarifying language in the Midtown Specific Plan (SP-1); and
Approve a Site Plan Review (SPR18-020) for a new two-story gymnasium with a fitness center, activity room, youth soccer field, and 70-space parking lot, located at 3012 Long Beach Boulevard; approve a Lot Merger (LMG18-008) to consolidate the Salvation Army Campus into two lots; and, find the proposed vacation of a portion of Elm Avenue north of Spring Street, and two alleys located between Elm and Pasadena Avenues, consistent with the General Plan (GPC18-002). (District 7)
DISCUSSION
On April 19, 2018, the Planning Commission (Attachment A - Planning Commission Report) held a public hearing and recommended that the City Council adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration, approve a Zone Change, Site Plan Review, and Lot Merger for Phase 2 of the Salvation Army Citadel Campus (Campus), approve an Addendum to the Midtown Specific Plan EIR and Zoning Code Amendment for technical changes to the Midtown Specific Plan (SP-1), and find that the proposed vacations of a portion of Elm Avenue and two alleys were consistent with the General Plan.
The Campus is situated on a 3.6-acre site at the northeast corner of Long Beach Boulevard and Spring Street. The Campus consists of 10 parcels in an L-shaped configuration ranging from 31st Street to a midblock point, and includes a to-be-vacated portion of Elm Avenue (Attachment B - Location Map). The Campus currently consists of a social services building, administrative offices, chapel, multipurpose building, parking lot, and vacant land. The Campus is adjacent to commercial uses and a Long Beach Memorial Hospital parking lot, and is bordered by single-family residences and oil fields to the north and east. The project site will be developed on vacant land on the Campus.
The proposed project is part of a multiple-phased d...
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