Long Beach, CA
File #: 21-0308    Version: 1 Name: DS - 3701 Pacific Place—Appeal of Planning Commission Decision D8
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 3/24/2021 In control: City Council
On agenda: 4/13/2021 Final action: 4/13/2021
Title: Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and consider the third-party appeals of Ann Cantrell and Anna Christensen representing the Sierra Club Los Cerritos Wetlands Task Force; Corliss Lee representing Citizens About Responsible Planning; Juan E. Ovalle representing the Riverpark Coalition; Renee Lawler representing the Historic Equestrian Trail Association of So Cal; and Robert Gill representing the Los Cerritos Neighborhood Association (APL20-004, APL20-005, APL20-006, APL20-007); Adopt resolution certifying Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND 07-20), making certain findings related thereto, and adopting a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, and approving the Pacific Place Project at 3701 Pacific Place;
Attachments: 1. 041321-H-8sr&att Revised.pdf, 2. 041321-H-8 Attachment A - Planning Commission Staff Report.pdf, 3. 041321-H-8 Attachment B - Location Map.pdf, 4. 041321-H-8 Attachment C - Photos.pdf, 5. 041321-H-8 Attachment D - Written Public PC Comments.pdf, 6. 041321-H-8 Attachment E - Plans.pdf, 7. 041321-H-8 Attachment F - Findings & Conditions.pdf, 8. 041321-H-8 Attachment G - Zone Change Map.pdf, 9. 041321-H-8 Attachment H - Conceptual Plans for the LARMP Area.pdf, 10. 041321-H-8 Attachment I - Applications for Appeal.pdf, 11. 041321-H-8 Attachment J - Responses to Appeals.pdf, 12. 041321-H-8 Attachment K - Mitigated Negative Declaration 07-20.pdf, 13. 041321-H-8 Attachment L - MND Comment Letters.pdf, 14. 041321-H-8 Attachment M - Response to MND Comments and Edits.pdf, 15. 041321-H-8 Attachment N - Responses to the Project.pdf, 16. 041321-H-8 PowerPoint Appellant - Renee Lawler.pdf, 17. 041321-H-8 PowerPoint Applicant.pdf, 18. 041321-H-8 Staff PowerPoint.pdf, 19. 041321-H-8 PowerPoint Appellant - Ann Cantrell.pdf, 20. 041321-H-8 PowerPoint Appellant - Corliss Lee.pdf, 21. 041321-H-8 PowerPoint Appellant - Juan Ovalle.pdf, 22. RES-21-0034.pdf, 23. 041321-H-8 Correspondence.pdf, 24. 041321-H-8 Correspondence - Alison Hahm and Douglas P. Carstens of Chatten-Brown, Carstens & Minter LLP
TITLE
Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and consider the third-party appeals of Ann Cantrell and Anna Christensen representing the Sierra Club Los Cerritos Wetlands Task Force; Corliss Lee representing Citizens About Responsible Planning; Juan E. Ovalle representing the Riverpark Coalition; Renee Lawler representing the Historic Equestrian Trail Association of So Cal; and Robert Gill representing the Los Cerritos Neighborhood Association (APL20-004, APL20-005, APL20-006, APL20-007);

Adopt resolution certifying Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND 07-20), making certain findings related thereto, and adopting a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, and approving the Pacific Place Project at 3701 Pacific Place;

DISCUSSION
On December 17, 2020, the Planning Commission held a public hearing, adopted and certified a Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND 07-020), and conditionally approved (by a 6-1 vote) a Site Plan Review, Standards Variance, Conditional Use Permit, and Lot Merger request for the construction and operation of a three-story, 152,745-square-foot self-storage facility (also consisting of approximately 6,200 square-feet of office space on the third floor), in conjunction with an accessory recreational vehicle parking lot and 2,153-square-foot patron car wash (Project) (Attachment A - Planning Commission Staff Report and Exhibits). The Planning Commission also recommended that the City Council approve a zone change to rezone four parcels generally located at the northeast intersection of the I-405 Freeway and the Los Angeles River, from Light Industrial (IL) to the Commercial Storage (CS) zoning district (Attachment B - Location Map). The proposed zone change would limit the allowable uses on the subject parcels in comparison to the more intense industrial uses permitted by the current IL zoning district and would facilitate the development of the self-storage facility and recreational ...

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