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Recommendation to void, vacate and set aside the Planning Commission and City Council prior approvals of a Site Plan Review (SPR20-015), Standards Variance (SV20-006), Conditional Use Permit (CUP20-010), and Lot Merger (LMG20-009), relating to the proposed construction and operation of a three-story, 152,745-square-foot commercial building for self-storage, in conjunction with an accessory recreational vehicle parking lot and patron (private) car wash at 3701 Pacific Place, Long Beach;
Adopt resolution voiding, vacating and setting aside Resolution Number RES-21-0034 in its entirety related to the adoption and certification of Mitigated Negative Declaration MND07-20, adoption of a mitigation monitoring and reporting program (MMRP) and approval of the Pacific Place project located at 3701 Pacific Place, Long Beach, including all findings adopted by the Planning Commission and City Council as part of the Project approvals; and
DISCUSSION
The In-Site Self Storage (Pacific Place Project) proposal began in 2018, to encourage investment in a 13.95-acre, underutilized property that is zoned Light Industrial (IL). The property is located at the north end of Pacific Place and Ambeco Road directly north of the Interstate 405 Freeway and East of the Los Angeles River. The site was formerly used as a golf driving range (closed in 2007) and golf-related retail shop and equipment rental (closed in 2015). Prior to the golf uses, the site included an oil brine water treatment facility for on and off-site oil production activities and oil well drilling. This oil related use was established in the 1920’s and activities included pumping of oil brine to oil sumps (evaporation and treatment ponds). As a result of these treatment activities, water seepage into the subsurface below the sumps caused a sludge residue on-site. Oil drilling took place on-site between the 1930’s and 1980’s. All 13 wells were abandoned between 1961 and 2014.
On December 17, 2020, the Plannin...
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