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Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Use District Map of the City of Long Beach as said Map has been established and amended by amending portions of Parts 15 and 22 of said Map from Light Industrial (IL) to Commercial Storage (CS), read and adopted as read. (District 8)
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 vehicle (RV) parking lot on properties that have limited physical access and have significant contamination due to historic uses on the site, which are outlined in more detail below.
History and Background
The subject parcels, which currently comprise a vacant 13.95-acre dirt lot (Attachment C - Photos), are bounded by the Metro A Line (formerly Blue Line) light rail tracks to the north and east, the transition road leading from the I-405 Freeway to the 710 Freeway to the south, and a strip of...
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