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Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, adopt Mitigated Negative Declaration MND-04-15, and adopt resolution approving an Addendum (02-18) to the Midtown Specific Plan EIR;
DISCUSSION
On April 19, 2018, the Planning Commission (Attachment A - Planning Commission Report) held a public hearing and recommended that the City Council adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration, approve a Zone Change, Site Plan Review, and Lot Merger for Phase 2 of the Salvation Army Citadel Campus (Campus), approve an Addendum to the Midtown Specific Plan EIR and Zoning Code Amendment for technical changes to the Midtown Specific Plan (SP-1), and find that the proposed vacations of a portion of Elm Avenue and two alleys were consistent with the General Plan.
The Campus is situated on a 3.6-acre site at the northeast corner of Long Beach Boulevard and Spring Street. The Campus consists of 10 parcels in an L-shaped configuration ranging from 31st Street to a midblock point, and includes a to-be-vacated portion of Elm Avenue (Attachment B - Location Map). The Campus currently consists of a social services building, administrative offices, chapel, multipurpose building, parking lot, and vacant land. The Campus is adjacent to commercial uses and a Long Beach Memorial Hospital parking lot, and is bordered by single-family residences and oil fields to the north and east. The project site will be developed on vacant land on the Campus.
The proposed project is part of a multiple-phased development of the Campus. The first phase (Application No. 1306-10) involved the conversion of an existing retail building into a social service office without food distribution at 3092 Long Beach Boulevard in 2014. The second phase (Application No.1501-38) consisted of the conversion of a retail hardware store into a chapel (299 seats), a new 3,200-square-foot lobby, a new parking lot with 43 parking spaces, and the demolition of the former two...
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