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Recommendation to declare ordinance amending and restating PD-32, Douglas Park Planned Development District (PD-32 North and PD-32 South), read and adopted as read. (District 5)
DISCUSSION
In December 2004, the City Council approved the establishment of the Douglas Park Planned Development District (PD-32), which included PD-32 Development Standards, Design Guidelines, and a Development Agreement, for the build-out of the 261-acre former aircraft production site centered at Lakewood Boulevard and Cover Street, north of the Long Beach Airport (Attachment A - Location Map). PD-32 aimed to integrate a variety of land uses including light industrial, office, retail, hotels, and residences. Amendments that split PD-32 into North and South segments and converted the planned uses in the North segment (the area north of Cover Street) from residential to office, light industrial, and retail uses, were approved in 2008.
PD-32 North and South were each further delineated into three Subareas as follows: PD-32 North - Subarea 1, Subarea 2, Subarea 3; PD-32 South - Subarea 7, Subarea 8A, Subarea 8B (Attachment B - PD-32 Subarea Map). Generally, the Subareas of PD-32 North were intended to offer less intense uses featuring more retail, office, and lighter industrial uses. The Subareas of PD-32 South were intended to offer more intense uses featuring aviation-related and certain manufacturing uses.
Recent City-initiated amendments to PD-32 North and PD-32 South, adopted by the City Council on May 12, 2020, have established aerospace and aircraft manufacturing as an allowable use throughout the Planned District. In consideration of this amendment, the Master Developer holding the majority ownership interest in Douglas Park (Sares Regis) is seeking other amendments that would allow additional manufacturing uses that are less intense than aircraft manufacturing. On June 18, 2020, the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing and recommended (with two Commissioners...
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