TITLE
Recommendation to declare ordinance repealing Ordinance No. ORD-21-0013, read and adopted as read. (District 5)
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 Planning Commission approved the Pacific Place Project, a three-story, 152,745-square-foot self-storage building consisting of 1,132 storage units, approximately 6,200 square feet of office space, a 2,153-square-foot accessory car wash to service onsite (patron) vehicles only, and a paved Recreational Vehicle parking lot consisting of 578 parking stalls. Entitlements for the approval included Site Plan Review, Standards Variance, Conditional Use Permit (CUP), and Lot Merger (collectively, the “Project Approvals”). The Planning Commission also recommended that the City Council approve a zone change from IL to Commercial Storage to facilitate the proposed development in the IL Zoning District.
For the environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), an Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration...
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