Notice is hereby given that a Special Meeting of the Planning
Commission will be held at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, at the City
Council Chambers in City Hall, 1685 Main Street, Room # 213, Santa Monica,
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1. CALL TO
ORDER
2. PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE
3. ROLL CALL
4. PLANNING
DIRECTOR'S REPORT:
Information concerning
future Planning Commission and City Council Agendas. Update on recent City Council action on
appeals, ordinances, development projects, and planning policy studies. Information
on recent Architectural Review Board and Landmarks Commission actions. Update on project status and related
planning matters.
5. STATEMENT
OF OFFICIAL ACTION: Consent Calendar
5-A. 1437-1443
Lincoln Boulevard, 16ENT-0098 and 16ENT-0142
6. PUBLIC
HEARING: Consent Calendar
6-A. Resolution of Intention to Make Minor Amendments to the Zoning
Ordinance for Policy Issues that Have Arisen Since Adoption of the Zoning Ordinance in
July 2015 Through Its Implementation. [Planner: Tony Kim]
7. PUBLIC
HEARINGS: Public Input Permitted
7-A. 2903 Lincoln Boulevard, Development Review 16ENT-0034. Development Review Permit 16ENT-0034 to allow
a new four-story (36 feet),1.84 FAR, 59,319 square-foot mixed-use project
consisting of 47 residential units, 16,755 square feet of ground floor
commercial space, and 151 automobile parking spaces within a two-level
subterranean parking garage on a property located in the GC (General Commercial)
zoning district. According to Section 9.40.020 of the Zoning Ordinance, a
Development Review Permit is required for any project exceeding the maximum
Tier 1 limits of 3 stories/36 feet in height and a 1.5 FAR for a property in
the GC zoning district. [Planner: Michael Rocque] APPLICANT: Lina Lee, CIM Group.
PROPERTY OWNER: Lincoln Lot 7 (SM), LLC.
Attachment D: Full
Environmental Document –
https://www.smgov.net/Departments/PCD/Projects/2903-2931-Lincoln-Blvd--DR/
7-B. 2225 Broadway, Development Review 17ENT-0095 and Major
Modification 17ENT-0256. 17ENT-0095 (Development Review Permit) and
17ENT-0256 (Major Modification) to allow a new 3-story (34.5 ft.), 15,463
square foot, mixed-use building with 15 units, approximately 2,751 square feet
of ground floor commercial tenant space, and 35 vehicle parking spaces and
secure bike storage in a two-level subterranean parking garage. Per SMMC
9.40.020, a DR is required to permit this Tier 2 project because the
floor-area-ratio (FAR) exceeds the maximum Tier 1 limit of 1.5 for the MUBL
zoning district. A Major Modification
from SMMC Section 9.11.030 is also requested to permit a reduced ground floor
street wall height from 15 feet to 13.5 feet. [Planner: Elizabeth Bar-El, AICP]
APPLICANT/ PROPERTY OWNER: SM-Cloverfield Investors LLC.
Attachment D: Full Environmental Document –
https://www.smgov.net/Departments/PCD/Projects/2225-Broadway/
7-C. 1450 Cloverfield Boulevard. Development
Review 17ENT-0096), Major
Modification 17ENT-0257 and Minor Modification 17ENT-0258 to allow a new 3-story (35 ft.), 34,300 square
foot, mixed-use building with 34 units, approximately 8,384 square feet of
ground floor commercial tenant space, and 93 vehicle parking spaces with secure
bike storage in a two-level subterranean parking garage. Per SMMC 9.40.020, a
DR is required to permit this Tier 2 project because the floor-area-ratio (FAR)
exceeds the maximum Tier 1 limit of 1.25 for the MUBL zoning district. Major and Minor Modifications are also
requested to permit a reduced ground floor street wall height from 15 feet to
13.5 feet and .to reduce the loading space height clearance from 14 feet to 12
feet, five inches. [Planner: Elizabeth
Bar-El, AICP] APPLICANT/ PROPERTY OWNER:
SM-Cloverfield Investors LLC.
Attachment D: Full
Environmental Document –
https://www.smgov.net/Departments/PCD/Projects/1450-Cloverfield/
8.
FUTURE COMMISSION
AGENDA ITEMS
Opportunity for suggestions from Commissioners regarding
future discussion items, speakers and requests for information
9. ADJOURNMENT
[Because this is a special meeting,
public comment is permitted only on items listed on this agenda. No other
business will be conducted at this Special Meeting
Please note that this agenda is subject to
change up to 24 hours prior to the scheduled meeting. We encourage you to check
the agenda 24 hours prior to the meeting.
City Hall and the Council Chambers is wheelchair
accessible. If you have any disability-related accommodation request, please
contact (310) 458-8341, or TDD Number: (310) 458-8696 at least three (3) days
prior to the meeting. All written materials are available in
alternate format upon request.
Please turn-off or set
your cell phone to vibrate while in the Council Chambers.
Santa
Monica “Big Blue” Bus Lines #1, #2, #3, Rapid
3, #7, and #9 service the City Hall and the Civic Center. The Expo Line
terminus is at Colorado Avenue and Fourth Street, a short walk to City Hall.
Public parking is available in front of City Hall and on
Olympic Drive and in the Civic Center Parking Structure (validation free).
CITY PLANNING
COMMISSION
Amy
N. Anderson, Commissioner
Mario Fonda-Bonardi, Vice-Chairperson
Nina
Fresco, Chairperson
Jennifer
Kennedy, Commissioner
Leslie
Lambert, Commissioner
Richard
McKinnon, Commissioner
Jason
Parry, Commissioner
City
Staff
David
Martin, Director of Planning & Community Development
Jing
Yeo, City Planning Division Manager
Francie
Stefan, Mobility Division Manager
Susan
Cola, Deputy City Attorney
Kyle
Ferstead, Commission Secretary
AGENDA POLICIES
The Planning Commission
considers a range of requests for development permits, appeals, and planning
policy matters, and conducts public hearings on many of its agenda items. Due
to the number, complexity and public interest associated with many agenda items,
meetings of the Commission are generally lengthy. The Commission makes every
effort to proceed as expeditiously as possible; your patience and understanding
is appreciated.
PUBLIC HEARING
PROCEDURES
on each public hearing item include ex parte communication disclosure by
the Commissioners; presentation of a staff report; Commission questions of
staff; a fifteen (15) minute presentation by the project applicant or
applicant’s representative or team, if any; Commission questions of the
applicant; three (3) minutes for each member of the public wishing to speak to
the item; three (3) minutes for project applicant to respond to the public or
clarify issues raised by the public; Commission deliberations and decision. For
an appeal, the appellant, if not also the applicant, has fifteen (15) minutes
to address the Commission prior to the applicant speaking and three (3) minutes
to respond to public comment.
SPECIAL
TIME LIMITATIONS. The
Commission may limit the time of individual speakers or the total time on a
particular issue. If there are more than seven (7) speakers requesting to speak
on an agenda item, or if twenty (20)
or more persons have requested to speak on any combination of items, the
project applicant or appellant on any agenda item shall be limited to ten (10)
minutes initially and three (3) minutes in rebuttal. Members of the public are
permitted three (3) minutes to address the Commission except as follows: if a
member of the public requests to speak on more than one agenda item, the time
will be three (3) minutes for the first item and two (2) minutes for any other
item unless the Commission grants by a majority vote additional time.
REQUESTS TO SPEAK on an agenda item must
be submitted on a speaker's request form (“chit”) and submit it to the Commission
secretary. All requests to address the Commission on public hearing items must
be submitted prior to the Commission's consideration of the item.
ASSIGNING OF TIME for members of the
public wishing to speak to an item is permissible within specified limits. A "representative speaker" may be
allowed one additional minute of speaking time, to a maximum of five (5)
additional minutes [hence, eight (8) minutes total] for each person actually in
attendance who assigns his or her right to speak via a request to speak form to
the "representative speaker." The project applicant, applicant’s
representative or team of representatives (which may include the project
architect, attorney, facilitator and all other representatives of the
applicant), shall be allowed a total of fifteen (15) minutes initially and
three (3) minutes in rebuttal.
PRESENTATIONS BY
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC
should begin with the speaker stating his or her name and address for the
public record followed by a statement regarding the item under
consideration. Please speak to the
Commission as a whole.
PROFESSIONALS APPEARING
BEFORE THE COMMISSION
should clearly identify their status, such as "attorney",
"paralegal", "architect", "designer", or
"landscape architect".
Instances of misrepresentation of professional status may be referred to
the City Attorney for possible prosecution.
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
FILES AND PLANS.
The project file and project plans regarding any development application on
this agenda are available at the City Planning Office, Room 212, located at
City Hall, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica. Staff reports are also available at
the Planning Commission webpage:
http://www.smgov.net/Departments/PCD/Boards-Commissions/Planning-Commission/
WRITTEN MATERIALS,
LETTERS AND E-MAILS
regarding agenda items should be submitted to the City Planning Division staff
prior to the Commission meeting. All written materials, including e-mails, will
be forwarded the Commission Secretary for inclusion in the public record and,
if received by noon on the Monday prior to the Wednesday public hearing, shall
be forwarded to the Commission in advance of the meeting. Late submissions will
be place on the dais on the night of the public hearing, but might not be
reviewed by the Commission.
EX PARTE
COMMUNICATION DISCLOSURES. During the pendency of
any quasi-judicial proceeding, no member of the Planning Commission may engage
in ex parte communications with
applicants, appellants or members of the public with respect to the matter
which is the subject of the proceeding unless that member of the Commission
discloses such communication. Prior to each quasi-judicial agenda item each
Commissioner must place on the record the subject and substance of any written
or oral ex parte communication
including the identity of the person, group or entity with whom the
communication took place.
TIME LIMITATION ON CONSIDERATION OF NEW ITEMS. The Commission shall
not commence consideration of a new item on its agenda after 11:00 p.m. unless
otherwise required by State or local law or unless otherwise determined by a
majority vote of those Commissioners present.
CONSENT CALENDAR items will be acted
upon by the Commission at one time without discussion unless a Commissioner
requests discussion on an item or a member of the public has submitted a
request to speak on an item. If such a
request is made, the item will be heard after the balance of the Consent
Calendar has been voted upon.
ACTION BY THE PLANNING
COMMISSION
on most matters occurs with the affirmative votes of at least four
Commissioners.
DESIGN ASPECTS OF
PROJECTS
considered by the Planning Commission must also be approved by the
Architectural Review Board. For more
information on this process, contact the City Planning Division.
APPEALS of certain actions of
the Commission are appealable to the City Council. The appeal period is generally ten to
fourteen days from the date of the Commission’s action For specific information
on appeals, please contact the City Planning Division.
For more information
regarding the Planning Commission agenda
or development permit procedures and standards,
please contact the City
Planning Division at (310) 458-8341.
Copies of agendas and
staff reports are available on the City’s Home Page on the World Wide Web using
the following address: www.smgov.net or
http://www.smgov.net/Departments/PCD/Boards-Commissions/Planning-Commission/
No smoking in City Hall
The
goal of instituting the Resolution 10642 (CCS) is to “safeguard participatory
democracy in Santa Monica,” and this is presented as 6 points:
o
Exercise self-control o
Give open-minded consideration to all
viewpoints o
Focus on the issues and avoid
personalizing debate o Embrace
respectful disagreement and dissent as democratic rights, inherent components
of an inclusive public process, and tools for forging sound decisions |