TITLE
Recommendation to adopt 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 8, 14, and 15 of said Map to rezone select properties on major corridors (on Willow Street, west of the I-710 freeway to the City terminus; and Santa Fe Avenue between Pacific Coast Highway on the south and Wardlow Road on the north) in West Long Beach to either Mixed Use 1-A (MU-1-A) or Mixed Use 1-B (MU-1-B) to implement the Neighborhood Serving Corridors or Center Low (NSC-L) place types, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Project Background
On June 15, 2021, the City Council enacted a one-year moratorium on standalone new residential development along transportation corridors in West Long Beach in areas that are designated by the 2019 General Plan Land Use Element (LUE) update as the Neighborhood-Serving Corridors or Centers Low (NSC-L) PlaceType on Willow Street, west of the Interstate-710 (I-710) to the City of Long Beach (City) terminus; and Santa Fe Avenue, between Pacific Coast Highway on the south and Wardlow Road on the north, in the West Long Beach area of the City (the “Project Area”).
The action was based on a May 18, 2021 request by the City Council, which outlined the unique circumstances leading to the request for the interim moratorium Ordinance, given that the existing zoning regulations for the West Willow and Santa Fe Corridors pre-date adoption of the updated LUE and do not allow for mixed-use development that would be consistent with the LUE and Urban Design Element. The moratorium was put in place to prevent out-of-character development that could be permitted under existing zoning regulations and that would result in standalone single-use residential structures that would further forestall the ability to create walkable, mixed use neighborhoods and corridors. The moratorium is limited to parcels along the Willow Street and Santa Fe Avenue corridors, we...
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