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HomeMy WebLinkAbout00-10 - Adopting General Plan Amendment GP-99-08A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING GENERAL PLAN. AMENDMENT GP -99-08, AMENDING THE GENERAL PLAN OF THE CITY OF COSTA. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa adopted the 1990 General Plan by Resolution No. 92-27 on March 16, 1992; 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, General Plan Amendment GP -99-08 amends Policy No. 255 of the 1990 General Plan to allow limited deviations from certain floor area ratio standards; and WHEREAS, public hearings were held by the Planning Commission on January 10, 2000, and by the City Council on February 22, 2000, in accordance with Section 65355 of the Government Code of the State of California, all. persons having been given the opportunity to be heard both for and against said General Plan Amendment GP -99-08 to the General Plan; and WHEREAS, this City Council deems it to be in the best interest of the City that said amendment to the General Plan be adopted; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Costa Mesa City Council that the General Plan is hereby amended by adoption of General Plan Amendment GP-99-08, amending Policy No. 255 of the 1990 General Plan as set forth in. Exhibit "A", attached to this resolution. BE IT 'FURTHER RESOLVED that an initial study was . prepared pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act. According to the initial study and Negative Declaration, which reflect the independent judgment of the City of Costa Mesa, the proposed project could not have a' significant effect on the environment. Additionally, the evidence in the record as a whole indicates that the project will not individually or cumulatively have an adverse effect on wildlife resources or habitat. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 22' day of February, 2000. ATTEST: Deputy City rk of the City of Costa Mesa MayoNrl!Oto City of Costa Mesa APPROVED AS TO FORM STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss CITY OF COSTA MESA ) CITY At T ORNEY: 4.C I, MARY T. ELLIOTT, Deputy City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution No.:00 -16 . was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the said City Council at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 22"d day of February, 2000. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my. hand and affixed the Seal of the.City of Costa Mesa this 23rd day of February, 2000. ILI, 7 Deputy City Clerk. and ex-officio Clerk of the City CokOcil of the City of Costa Mesa EXHIBIT A Policy 255 of the 1.990 General Plan is hereby amended as follows: 255 -. Building densities/intensities for proposed new development projects shall not exceed the trip budget for applicable land use classifications,• as identified in the Land Use Element. Building intensities for proposed new development projects shall not exceed the applicable floor area ratio standards, except for the following conditions: Limited deviations from the graduated floor area ratio standards. depicted in Tables 61 and 62 for the commercial and industrial land use designations may be approved through a discretionary review process. No deviation shall exceed a 0.05 increase in the. FAR in the moderate traffic category, and no deviation shall be allowed for the very low, low, and high traffic categories. Deviations from the FAR standards shall not cause the daily trip generation for the property to be exceeded when compared to the existing daily trip generation for the site without the proposed project or maximum allowable traffic generation for the Moderate Traffic FAR category, whichever is greater. ) Additions to existing nonconforming nonresidential developments may be allowed if the additions do not affect the overall traffic generation characteristics of the development, and, if the additions do not substantially affect the existing height and bulk of the development. Additions to nonresidential developments shall be limited to those land uses with traffic generation rates based on variables other than building area square footage. Examples of such additions include,_ but are not limited to: 1 Hotels/Motels: increases in the size of hotel rooms or lobbies where no increase in the total number of rooms is proposed; 2) Theaters: increases to "back -stage" support areas or lobbies where no increase in the total number of seats is proposed. (c) In the above conditions,.. the new development shall be compatible with surrounding land uses. Additional criteria for approving deviations from the FAR standards may be established by policy of the City Council.