HomeMy WebLinkAbout89-144 - Adopting GP -89-1C, Amending Master Plan of Highways: 19th St., Harbor and Newport BoulevardsRESOLUTION NO. 89-144
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING GENERAL PLAN
AMENDMENT GP -89-1C, ESTABLISHING A BUILDING
INTENSITY STANDARD OF 0.95 F.A.R. FOR THE BLOCK
BOUNDED BY 19TH STREET, HARBOR BOULEVARD AND
NEWPORT BOULEVARD AND AMENDING THE MASTER PLAN
OF HIGHWAYS TO DELETE A RIGHT -TURN LANE ON NORTH-
BOUND HARBOR AT 19TH STREET AND TO ADD A RIGHT -
TURN LANE ON SOUTHBOUND NEWPORT AT BROADWAY.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS:
WHEREAS, the General Plan, including a Land Use Element and a Master
Plan of Highways in the Transportation Sub -Element of the Community Develop-
ment/Management Element, was adopted by the City Council of the City of
Costa Mesa by Resolution No. 81-67 on July 21, 1981; and
WHEREAS, the General Plan is a long-range, comprehensive document
which serves as a guide for the orderly development of Costa Mesa; and
WHEREAS, by its very nature, the General Plan needs to be updated and
refined to account for current and future community needs; and
WHEREAS, the Costa Mesa Redevelopment Agency has proposed a redevelop-
ment project on the block bounded by 19th Street, Harbor Boulevard and
Newport Boulevard; and
WHEREAS, amendments to the City of Costa Mesa Land Use Element and
Master Plan of Highways necessary to establish a building intensity standard
and to maintain Land Use Element and Circulation Element correlation to
acca modate the proposed redevelopment project; and
WHEREAS, Supplemental EIR #1026 was prepared and certified on December
18, 1985, for a larger, more intense project on the same site as the cur-
rently proposed redevelopment project; and
WHEREAS, the Initial Study prepared for the current project found that
Supplemental EIR #1026 adequately described the anticipated impacts of the
project and that, pursuant to Section 15162 of the State CEQA Guidelines,
no additional EIR is required in that changes in the proposed project will
not result in any new significant environmental impacts not considered in
EIR #1026, that no substantial changes have occurred with respect to the
circumstances under which the project will be undertaken which would require
important revisions to EIR #1026 and that no new information of substantial
importance has became available that was not known and could not have been
known when EIR #1026 was certified.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
Costa Mesa does recognize the need to establish a building intensity stand-
ard for the redevelopment project site and the need to maintain land use
and circulation correlation and, as a result, adopts General Plan Amendment
GP -89-1C to establish a building intensity standard of 9.95 F.A.R. for the
block bounded by 19th Street, Harbor Boulevard and Newport Boulevard and to
amend the Master Plan of Highways to delete a right -turn lane on northbound
Harbor Boulevard at 19th Street and on southbound Newport Boulevard at
Broadway.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 25th day of May, 1989.
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of Costa esa
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Mayor of the City sta Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and fore-
going Resolution No. 89-144 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by
the said City council at a special meeting thereof, held on the 25th day
May, 1989.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa this 26th day of May, 1989.
C ty Clerk and ex -of icio Clerk o the
City Council of the City of Cost V19sa
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