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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 Part 17 of said Map from Regional Highway District (CHW) to Willow Street Center Planned Development (PD-27), read and adopted as read. (District 5)
DISCUSSION
On January 19, 2017, the Planning Commission held a public hearing and voted 4-0 to recommend that the City Council adopt Mitigated Negative Declaration 06-16 (MND 06-16), and approve a Zone Change for three parcels located at 2640 N. Lakewood Boulevard, 2610 N. Lakewood Boulevard and 4141-4217 Willow Street from the Regional Highway District (CHW) zone to the Willow Street Center Planned Development District (PD-27), and approve a Conditional Use Permit, and a Site Plan Review for the construction of a new six-story hotel (Staybridge Suites) located at 2640 N. Lakewood Boulevard.
The project site is located on the east side of north Lakewood Boulevard between the Interstate 405 freeway and Willow Street, at 2640 N. Lakewood Boulevard, and is approximately 5.6 acres (Exhibit A - Location Map). The site is currently developed with a 13-story, 172-guestroom Holiday Inn (built in 1967), a two-story, 50-guestroom hotel (built in 1978) and a 10,648-square-foot conference center (built in 1978) with surface parking. The existing two-story, 50-guestroom hotel and the associated outdoor pool will be demolished to facilitate construction of the new hotel.
The project site is currently zoned Regional Highway District (CHW), which has a maximum building height allowance of 28 feet or two stories. To allow for the proposed building height of six stories, the applicant is requesting a Zone Change to include the site in the Willow Street Center Planned Development District (PD-27), which allows a maximum height of 230 feet or 20 stories. PD-27 currently covers a ten-acre area along Willow Street, approximately 425 feet west of the project site (E...
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