City of Long Beach - File #: 23-0074

• File #: 23-0074
• Version: 2
• Name: DS - 1911 E. PCH Appeal Ord 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 1/13/2023
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 3/7/2023
• Final action: 3/7/2023
• 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 10 of said Map from Regional Highway Commercial (CHW) and Low-density Multi-Family Residential, small lot (R-3-S) to Community R-4-N Commercial (CCN), read and adopted as read. (District 6)
• Sponsors: Development Services

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/7/2023	2	City Council	approve recommendation and adopt	Pass
2/21/2023	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
1/24/2023	1	City Council	laid over	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 10 of said Map from Regional Highway Commercial (CHW) and Low-density Multi-Family Residential, small lot (R-3-S) to Community R-4-N Commercial (CCN), read and adopted as read. (District 6)

DISCUSSION
On November 3, 2022, the Planning Commission held a duly noticed public hearing on this project and denied the Conditional Use Permit (CUP) and recommended the City Council adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) and approve a Zone change (4-0, with three commissioners absent) (Attachment A).

The project site is an approximately 24,000-square-foot site comprised of three legal lots located at 1911 East Pacific Coast Highway. The corner lot has frontage along Pacific Coast Highway to the south and Gardenia Avenue to the west. A 12-foot-wide alley borders the property to the east (Attachment B). The site is split-zoned Regional Highway Commercial (CHW) and Low-density Multi-family Residential, small lot (R-3-S). Based on Long Beach Municipal Code (LBMC) Section 21.32.020(D)(1), the CHW Zoning District is a commercial use district for mixed scale commercial uses located along major arterial streets and regional traffic corridors. Additionally, based on LBMC Section 21.31.020(K), the R-3-S Zoning District is a three-family residential district specifically for multi-family development on smaller lots. Surrounding uses include a gas station, tire shop, and residential uses.

Currently, the project site is developed with a 3,296-square-foot restaurant, Los Potros, and associated paved surface parking lot. The site is currently fenced off from Gardenia Avenue along the western boundary. Existing residential uses to the north are separated from the site by an approximately three-foot high masonry block wall and additional chain link fencing with slats. There is minimal landscaping on-site.

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