HomeMy WebLinkAbout88-44 - Adopting GP-88-1 (Revised), Segerstrom Home RanchRESOLUTION NO. 88-44
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING GENERAL PLAN
AMENDMENT GP -88-1 (REVISED).
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS:
1. WHEREAS, the City is required to amend the Land Use Element and
Circulation Element of its General Plan as a result of a recent court
ruling in the case of Costa Mesa Residents for Responsible Growth v. City
of Costa Mesa, Orange County Superior Court Case No. 52-54-40; and
2. WHEREAS, in order to proceed expeditiously and canply with the
requirement to enact the amendment within 120 days, the City proceeded
under the provisions of Government Code Section 65759 whereby the Cali-
fornia Environmental Quality Act shall not apply; and
3. WHEREAS, the City Council on February 12, 1988, passed Resolution
88-11, thereby adopting General Plan Amendment GP -88-1; and
4. WHEREAS, a referendum petition has been certified to the City
Council concerning Resolution 88-11, suspending the effectiveness of
GP -88-1; and
5. WHEREAS, in order to again comply with the court's ruling and in
response to the request by the owner of the Segerstran Hcme Ranch property,
the City Council now intends to adopt an alternative General Plan Amend-
ment, GP -88-1 (Rev.), to go into effect immediately; and
6. WHEREAS, if the people approve GP -88-1 by a favorable vote on the
referendum, or if GP -88-1 is found by a court of law to be effective upon
invalidating the referendum petition, then GP -88-1 (Rev.) will cease to be
effective and will be replaced by GP -88-1; and
7. WHEREAS, GP -88-1 (Rev.) has been satisfactorily analyzed in both
the Environmental Assessment for GP -88-1 and in a project Environmental
Impact Report No. 1039, and findings have been prepared relating thereto,
and the City Council now chooses to enact this alternative amendment;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by the City Council of the City
of Costa Mesa that the General Plan of the City of Costa Mesa is hereby
amended as follows:
A. LAND USE ELEMENT
Add the following to the Commercial Center Land Use Classifica-
tion section of the Land Use Element of the City of Costa Mesa General
Plan:
"Segerstrcm Home Ranch. The Segerstram Home Ranch site is
located between Harbor Boulevard, Sunflower Avenue, Fairview Road and
the San Diego Freeway. The 94 -acre site is primarily devoted to
agricultural use at the present time. Building intensity for the
ultimate development of the site is set at a maximum of 2,179,000
square feet of cammercial office, retail, restaurant, hotel, museum,
and child care space (not to exceed 31,538 A.D.T.'s). This represents
an average floor area ratio (FAR) of 0.53 for the entire site canputed
on a gross land area basis. The maximum FAR for any individual block
will not exceed 1.06. Maximum building heights range fram four (4)
stories (not to exceed 60 feet) for the portion north of South Coast
Drive to 12 and 20 stories (not to exceed 190 feet and 352 feet respec-
tively) for the southern portion of the site. The actual building
height limits for the four development blocks are shown on Figure 1.
Building heights in the eastern portion of the site will be detennined
by a height limitation line rising at a 25 -degree angle from the
westerly property line of the residential properties east of Fairview
Road. The entire Home Ranch site is expected to be built over a
20 -year period. No population density for the Home Ranch site is
established because no residential uses are authorized. The estimated
employment base generated by the build out of the Hare Ranch site is
7,533 persons. This results in an estimated employment density of
approximately 80 employees per acre."
B. CIRCULATION ELEMENT
Add the following to the Transportation/Circulation section of
the Public Facilities and Services Sub -Element of the Community
Development/Management Element of the City of Costa Mesa General Plan:
"Segerstran Hone Ranch. The Land Use Element provides for a
maximum building intensity of 2,179,000 square feet of office, retail,
hotel, restaurant, museum, and child care space on the 94 -acre Hone
Ranch site generally bounded by Harbor Boulevard, Sunflower Avenue,
Fairview Road and the San Diego Freeway. This results in an average
floor area ratio (FAR) of 0.53. This level of building intensity is
expected to generate 31,245 vehicle trips per day at ultimate build-
out. In order to maintain consistency with the Land Use Element and
to correlate the allowable building intensity with the carrying capac-
ity of the circulation system on an area -wide basis, improvements/
amendments to the Circulation Element are required. These improve-
ments are shown in Table 1 and are located on Figure 2. To ensure
that the circulation system remains correlated, the building intensi-
ties used in the Environmental Assessment for properties in the North
Costa Mesa Study Area (as shown in Tables 4 (rev.) and 5, and Figure
4, and Page 2-23) shall not be exceeded without a General Plan Amend-
ment.
Specific traffic improvements necessary to maintain correlation
between the land development plans arra circulation system capacity
will be required on a phase -by -phase basis as the land is developed.
No phase will be certified for occupancy unless the necessary improve-
ments to the circulation system to attain Level of Service "D" at all
intersections described in the Environmental Assessment as affected by
the Home Ranch project traffic are also provided for. This correla-
tion will be determined by the Environmental Impact Report or traffic
study for each development phase.
Funding of the necessary circulation system improvements will be
provided by developer contributions. The property owner will be
required to fund any needed circulation improvements on or adjacent to
the Hare Ranch site. Additional improvements (Table 1) will be funded
by a circulation system funding mechanism such as the City's Develop-
ment Trip Charge Program. Alternatively, a Mello -Roos Community
Facilities District or other benefit assessment district program may
be established to fund the area -wide improvements necessary for the
Home Ranch development as well as other major developments in northern
Costa Mesa. This site is within the benefit area of, and will also be
assessed fees by, the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Joint
Powers Authority."
C. GP -88-1 (Rev.) will cease to be effective and will be replaced by
GP -88-1 if GP -88-1 becomes effective following a vote of the people on
the referendum, or if GP -88-1 is found by a court of law to be effec-
tive by the invalidating of the referendum petition.
D. The attached Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations
are hereby adopted and they, along with the staff reports and memoranda
on GP -88-1 and GP -88-1 (Rev.) and Part 2 of the Environmental Assess-
ment, are designated the reference data supporting this General Plan
Amendment, though they are not a part of the Amendment.
E. The attached Environmental Assessment, Part 1, pursuant to
Government Code Section 65759, and Figures 1 and 2 arra Table 1 are
hereby made a part of this General Plan Amendment and incorporated
herein.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 22nd day of June 988.
Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesavll
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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. 88-44 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the
said City Council at a special meeting thereof held on the 22nd day of
June, 1988.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereby set my hand and affixed the Seal of
the City of Costa Mesa this 23rd day of June, 1988.
Ci y Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of t
City Council of the City of Costa MEP
Attachments for Resolution 88-44
are filed in a binder entitled
"ATTACHMENTS FOR PERMANENT RESOLUTION 88-44
(ADOPTING GP -88-1 Rev.)
FOR SEGERSTROM HOME RANCH"
The above binder is filed alongside
Permanent Resolution Book #23