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Recommendation to adopt resolution certifying the River Park Residential Project Environmental Impact Report (EIR-07-20, SCH#2021020492);
DISCUSSION
On September 1, 2022, the Planning Commission held a duly noticed public hearing on this project, and recommended (4-1, with two commissioners absent) that the City Council take the above-listed actions to approve the project (Attachment A).
The applicant proposes building a new residential Planned Unit Development (PUD) consisting of 226 dwelling units and a park, located on a 20.4-acre site. The project site will be divided into a 15.53-acre residential component, which will contain 74 two-story detached single-family homes, 99 two-story row townhouses, and 53 three-story carriage townhouses, with each unit to have an individual condominium airspace for ownership. A park is to be developed on the remaining 4.81 acres of the property. Primary access to the PUD would be provided from a private gated drive on Wardlow Road. An emergency access point is proposed at the northeast corner of the complex, at the intersection of Baker Street and Golden Avenue. The proposed circulation system within the PUD consists of a private drive loop to the residential units and amenity features, with on-street guest parking inside the PUD. Vacation of the unimproved Baker Street right-of-way west of Golden Avenue is proposed as part of the project since this street bisects the PUD and its proposed park. The project will include a provision of five percent of the total number of dwelling units as affordable housing units at the very-low Area Median Income (AMI) level.
Project Site
The project site is located on the former Oil Operators, Inc., property at 712 Baker Street, bounded by Wardlow Road on the south, Golden Avenue on the east, the San Diego Freeway (I-405) on the north, and the Los Angeles County flood control channel parcels and the Los Angeles River (LA River) on the west (Attachment B). Baker Street bisects the pr...
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