Long Beach, CA
File #: 20-014PL    Version: 1 Name: PL - Omninus 3
Type: PL-Agenda Item Status: Approved
File created: 2/10/2020 In control: Planning Commission
On agenda: 2/20/2020 Final action: 2/20/2020
Title: Recommendation to recommend that the City Council accept Negative Declaration ND 16-19 and approve Zoning Code Amendment ZCA19-011 to amend Title 21 of the Long Beach Municipal Code (Zoning Code) to: 1) Clarify and provide regulations for the following land uses: a. Clarify use regulations for the remnant Office Commercial (CO) and Highway Commercial (CH) commercial zones that were phased out in 1992; b.Clarify in which industrial zones personal storage and commercial storage/personal storage uses are permitted; c. Allow aerospace manufacturing uses by-right in certain industrial areas and Planned Development Districts that are industrial in character; d. Create a process to allow temporary uses for community benefit projects on vacant lots. 2) Modify existing development standards: a. Eliminate prohibitions on storage attics within accessory structures in residential zoning districts; b. Exempt satellite publicly run, post-secondary educational uses from change of use parking requir...
Sponsors: Planning Commission
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. Exhibit A - Findings, 3. Exhibit B - Draft Red-Line Code Amendment, 4. Exhibit C - Negative Declaration ND 16-19

TITLE

Recommendation to recommend that the City Council accept Negative Declaration ND 16-19 and approve Zoning Code Amendment ZCA19-011 to amend Title 21 of the Long Beach Municipal Code (Zoning Code) to: 

1) Clarify and provide regulations for the following land uses: a. Clarify use regulations for the remnant Office Commercial (CO) and Highway Commercial (CH) commercial zones that were phased out in 1992; b.Clarify in which industrial zones personal storage and commercial storage/personal storage uses are permitted; c. Allow aerospace manufacturing uses by-right in certain industrial areas and Planned Development Districts that are industrial in character; d. Create a process to allow temporary uses for community benefit projects on vacant lots. 2) Modify existing development standards: a. Eliminate prohibitions on storage attics within accessory structures in residential zoning districts; b. Exempt satellite publicly run, post-secondary educational uses from change of use parking requirements when proposed in existing buildings on commercially zoned properties located within one-half mile of public transit; c. Exempt certain non-permanent fabric canopies covering rooftop usable open space from height limitations in residential zoning districts; and 3) Make the following changes to administrative procedures: a. Add Zoning Code provisions that identify how new uses and unspecified development standards are applicable in specific plans and Planned Development Districts. (Citywide)

 

SUGGESTED ACTION

Approve recommendation.