City of Long Beach - File #: 18-0495

• File #: 18-0495
• Version: 2
• Name: DS - Salvation Army Zone Change Ordinance
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 6/11/2018
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 6/19/2018
• Final action: 7/10/2018
• Title: 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 15 of said Map from I (Institutional), CCA (Community Automobile-Oriented), and R-1-N (Single Family Residential) to SP-1 (Midtown Specific Plan), read and adopted as read. (District 7)
• Sponsors: Development Services
• Related files: 18-0494, 18-0496

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
7/10/2018	2	City Council	approve recommendation and adopt	Pass
6/19/2018	1	City Council	declare ordinance read the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading	Pass

TITLE
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 15 of said Map from I (Institutional), CCA (Community Automobile-Oriented), and R-1-N (Single Family Residential) to SP-1 (Midtown Specific Plan), read and adopted as read. (District 7)

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 ...