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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/06/1992 - Adjourned City Council Meetings ROLL CALL ORAL COMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC HEARINGS EIR No. 1044 for. the 1990 General ADJOURNED SPECIAL.MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF COSTA MESA FEBRUARY 6, 1992 ! The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, California, met in adjourned special session February 6, 1992, at 6:30 p.m., in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 77 Fair. Drive, Costa Mesa. The meeting was duly and regularly ordered adjourned from the adjourned special meeting of January 27, 1992. The meeting was called to order by the Mayor., followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. I Council Members Present: Mayor. Mary Hornbuckle Vice Mayor Sandra Genis ;Council Members Absent: 'Officials Present: Council Member. Peter. Buffa Council Member. Jay Humphrey Council Member. Joe Erickson None City Manager Allan.Roeder. City Attorney Thomas Kathe Director. of Public Services William Morris City Clerk Eileen Phinney Principal Planner. Mike Robinson 'There were no speakers under. Oral Communicat ions . The Mayor announced that the public input portion of the public hearings was concluded at the last General Plan meeting. Council deliberated on the following items: Continued from the adjour..ned special meeting of January 27, 1992, Environmental Impact Report (EIR) No. 1044 for. the 1990 General Plan.. 1990 General Plan 11990 General Plan: Transportation ; Continued from the adjourned special meeting of Subelement January 27, 1992, Transportation Subelement of the Community Development/Management Element; Land Use Element Continued from the adjourned special meeting of January 27, 1992,, Land Use Element.. The Principal Planner summarized the Agenda Report dated lianuary 29, 1992, which responds to questions raised at !the adjourned special meeting of January 27, 1992: Baker. Street widening to six lanes between Harbor. Boule- Ivard and Fairview Road; General Plan implementation jcosts; complaint regarding additions to a home at 3029 'Garfield Avenue; and issues regarding the Land Use Element text descriptions for commercial and mixed use ;designations. He reported that the rezone case to be heard by the United States Supreme Court is addressed in the City Attorney's memorandum dated February 6, 1992. All actions for this meeting were straw votes. MOTION/Adopted 'A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Alternative 2 Eby Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, adopting on a Consent iAlternative 2, the Steering Committee's recommendations, Calendar. Basis for. the Land Use Element and Transportation Subelement i dl on a Consent Calendar basis, that is, having Council remove specific."items for. discussion. Council Member. Erickson suggested using Tables A, B, and C as guide- lines for tonight's actions. (The tables were provided with the document "General Plan Decision Points".) He stated that his intention was to endorse the Planning Commission's recommendations for those items for which there were no recommendations in Alternative 2, unless removed by a Council Member.. The following items were removed for. discussion: Council Member. Erickson: Table A: Regional Commercial; and Fairgrounds. Table B: Site 6 - Adams Avenue and Mesa Verde Drive; Site 13 - Newport Boulevard; Site 24 - Home Ranch; Site 26 - Town Center., Metro Center., Sakioka Farms Lots 1 and 2, The Lakes; and Site 27 - South Coast Plaza, Crystal Court. Table C: Alternative Alternative Alternative Alternative Council Member. Buffa: 2-09 - Virginia, Cecil, and Albert Places; 2-11 - Area west of Whittier. Avenue; 2-18 - La Perle Lane and La Perle Place; and 3-07 - Santa Ana River and the extension of 19th Street. Table A: Business -Park Mixed Use Table B: Site 25 - Metro Pointe Vice Mayor. Genis: Table B: Site 22 - Orange County Fairgrounds Council Member. Humphrey: Table B: Site 14 - West of Bristol Street, south of the Orange County Flood Control District. Mayor Hornbuckle: Table A - Urban Center. Mixed Use. MOTION During discussion regarding the Floor. Area Ratio (FAR) Adopted 0.60 FAR for Regional Commercial (Table A), which essentially for. Regional refers to South Coast Plaza, the Principal Planner. Commercial Use reported that the FAR for this designation incorporates both commercial and residential uses. A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded by Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, designating an FAR of 0.60 for. Regional Commercial. Council Member. Buffa announced that he would abstain from voting on items regarding the Fairgrounds. MOTION/"Fairgrounds" On motion by Council Member. Erickson, seconded by Vice Classification and Mayor. Genis, and carried 4-0, Council Member Buffa 0.10 FAR Adopted abstaining, the following action was taken: Table B, for. Orange County Site 22, Orange County Fairgrounds, the "Fairgrounds" Fairgrounds classification was adopted as recommended in Alternative 2; and Table A, an FAR of 0.10 was adopted. MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Medium Density by Vice Mayor. Genis, and carried 5-0, adopting Medium Residential for Density Residential for. Site 6, Table B, Adams Avenue Adams/Mesa Verde and Mesa Verde Drive. MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Neighborhood by Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, adopting Commercial for the designation of Neighborhood.Commercial for Site 13, Newport Boulevard; Table B, Newport Boulevard; and directing staff to pre - Directed Staff to pare a Specific Plan. During discussion, Council Member. Prepare a Specific Erickson confirmed that the Specific Plan shall address Plan development of Single -Roan Occupancy (SRO) in this area. MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Industrial Park and by Council Member. Humphrey, adopting Industrial Park and Medium Density Medium Density Residential for. Site 24, Table B, Home Residential for. Ranch, stipulating that development shall be limited to Hone Ranch five stories in the center, of the site, with gradual reduction in building heights between the center and outermost portions of the property. Council Member. Buffa felt that the Business Park Mixed Use designation was more appropriate for. Home Ranch. The motion carried 3-2, Council Members Hornbuckle and Buffa voting no, resulting in deletion of the Business Park Mixed Use designation. Vice Mayor. Genis was concerned that a demand for more park land is being created by the Medium Density Resi- dential designation for. the Adams Avenue/Mesa Verde Drive site, and a goodly portion of the Home Ranch property. The Principal Planner suggested that it would be more appropriate to address this issue during the update of the Master Plan of Parks, Recreation and Open Space. Vice Mayor. Genis felt that the afore- mentioned sites would generate significant park dedica- tion requirements. MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Urban Center. by Council Member Humphrey, retaining Urban Center. Commercial and Commercial on Site 2 and High Density Residential on High Density Sites 3 and 4 of the alternatives for. Site 26, Table B of the proposed General Plan, with a site specific Residential for allocation of 25 to 35 units per acre, stipulating that Town Center., et al the allocation shall include density bonuses. Discussion ensued on density and trip transfers which were retained in the guidelines; however., no decision had been made by Council. Mayor. Hornbuckle suggested that this may be the appropriate time to discuss Urban Center. Mixed Use, an item she had removed from Table A. Both Mayor. Hornbuckle and Council Member. Buffa expressed a desire to retain Urban Center. Mixed Use for this site. Substitute Motion A substitute motion was made by Council Member. Buffa, Failed to Carry seconded by Mayor. Hornbuckle, designating Site 26 as Urban Center. Mixed Use with a site specific allocation of 25 to 35 units per. acre. The substitute motion failed to carry 3-2, Council Members Genis, Humphrey, and Erickson voting no. The original motion by Council Member. Erickson carried 4-1, Council Member. Buffa voting no. MOTION/Adopted Council Member. Erickson made a motion to adopt the Regional Commercial Regional Commercial designation for. Site 27, Table B, for. South Coast South Coast Plaza and Crystal Court, with an FAR of Plaza/Crystal Court 60. Vice Mayor. Genis felt it would be best to treat these as separate sites to prevent the possibility of :. 201 future litigation. Mayor. Hornbuckle asked staff to .address the Vice Mayor's concern with other "clean-up" items. The motion carried 5-0. MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Medium Density by Council Member. Humphrey, to adopt Medium Density Residential for. Residential for. Alternative 2-09, Table C, Virginia Virginia, Cecil, Place, Cecil Place, and Albert Place. The motion and Albert Places carried 5-0. MOTION/Adopt A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Light Industry for. by Council Member. Humphrey, to adopt the Light Industry Area West of designation for. Alternative 2-11, Table C, area west of Whittier. Avenue Whittier. Avenue. SUBSTITUTE MOTION Council Member. Buffa was opposed to Light Industry in Adopt Light this area and urged Council to consider. Low Density Industry with Residential. A substitute motion was made by Vice Alternative Use of Mayor. Genis, seconded by Council Member. Erickson, to Low Density Resi- adopt Light Industry with Low Density Residential per.- dential mitted as an alternate use upon approval by the City Council. AMENDED SUBSTITUTE Council Member. Erickson opposed low density housing in MOTION/Adopted Light an industrial area. Mayor. Hornbuckle suggested that if Industry West of someone were to acquire a piece of property large enough Whittier.; Directed to develop Low Density Residential, that owner, could Staff to Prepare a request a General Plan Amendment. After brief discus - Specific Plan sion, Vice Mayor Genis made an amended substitute motion adopting the Light Industry designation for the area west of Whittier. Avenue, and directing staff to prepare a Specific Plan addressing development of Low Density Residential. The amended substitute motion carried 5-0. MOTION/Adopted Medium Density On motion by Council Member. Erickson, seconded by Residential for. Council Member. Buffa, and carried 5-0, Medium Density La Perle Lane and Residential was adopted for. Alternative 2-18, Table C, La Perle Place La Perle Lane and La Perle Place. MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Council Member Erickson, seconded Public/Semi-Public by Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, adopting for. Santa Ana River. the Public/Semi-Public designation for. Alternative and 19th Street 3-07, Table C, Santa Ana River and the 19th Street Extension extension. Council Member. Humphrey addressed Site 14, Table B, Bristol Street south of the Orange County Flood Control District (OCFD), and expressed his opinion that this area should be designated Low Density Residential rather. than General Commercial. He referred to Figure 73, Page 141 of the General Plan, and explained that even though this site is adjacent to existing commercial developments on Bristol Street, it abuts low density residential to the rear.. Mayor. Hornbuckle pointed out that the commercial buildings are all new; therefore, the low density designation would make the commercial uses nonconforming, a situation she could not support. Council Member. Buffa shared the concerns of the Mayor.. MOTION/Adopt A motion was made by Council Member. Humphrey, seconded Low Density Resi- by Vice Mayor. Genis, to adopt Low Density Residential dential for. West for. Site 14, Table B, West of Bristol Street, south of of Bristol Street, the Orange County Flood Control District (OCFD). During South of the OCFD discussion, Senior. Planner. Alice Angus reported that under the zoning code, the required setback for a commercial use which abuts a residential area is two times the height of the commercial building. I SUBSTITUTE MOTION A substitute motion was made by Council Member. Buffa, Adopted General seconded by Council Member. Erickson, adopting General Commercial for. West Commercial for. Site 14, West of Bristol Street, south of Bristol Street of OCFD. The motion carried 4-1, Council Member. and South of OCFD Humphrey voting.no. MOTION/Adopted Urban !A motion was made by Council Member. Buffa, seconded by Center. Commercial Mayor. Hornbuckle, and carried,5-0, adopting Urban Center. for. Metro Pointe (Commercial for. Site 25,Table B, Metro Pointe. 1 Council Member. Buffa expressed his concern regarding decisions made for the north end of the City. He 1believed there were some unanswered questions in terms of the densities adopted this evening which he felt must be refined, and he also had questions on transportation MOTION/Directed improvements. Based on the assumption that the straw Staff to Prepare ;votes .would be completed this.evening, Council Member. a Specific Plan for. Buffa made a motion directing staff to prepare a Properties North of ;Specific Plan for properties north of the 405 Freeway, the 405 Freeway stipulating that staff shall commence preparation of ,the Specific Plan after. the 1990 General Plan has been adopted. The motion was seconded by Council Member. .!Erickson, and carried 5-0. EIR No. 1044 Mayor. Hornbuckle asked for. comments or a motion on Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) No. 1044. Council Member. Erickson mentioned that he intended to propose ,'goals and policies for. the General Plan which will address the bridges. Motion to Certify A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded EIR No. 1044 by Council Member. Buffa, to certify EIR No. 1044 based Withdrawn on the following findings: (1) Final EIR No. 1044 has 'been completed in compliance with CEQA; and (2) The City Council has reviewed and considered the informa- tion in Final EIR No. 1044 prior to approving the (proposed General Plan. Vice Mayor. Genis requested that 'the EIR be trailed because there were certain items in jthe Land Use Element of the General Plan, specifically, !descriptions of land use classifications which should be clarified; for, example, on Pages 394, 395, and 396, !complementary commercial uses in residential areas. ;Council Member -Erickson withdrew the motion. The Principal Planner stated that it would be necessary for. Council to address the Agenda Report of December. 20, X1991, which was provided for the General Plan meeting held on January 8, 1992. MOTION/Adopted 'A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Policy Regarding Jby Council Member. Humphrey, to adopt the following Bridges and 19th !policy: "Council shall review the cooperative study to Street Widening idelete the Gisler. Avenue and 19th Street bridges, and downgrading East 19th Street every 60 days or. more often �if needed. Upon completion of the cooperative study, ;the City shall process a General Plan Amendment(s) to !delete the bridges -and the widening of East 19th Street from the City's Master. Plan of Highways." At the (recommendation of Council Member Humphrey, Council 'Member. Erickson made an addition to the policy: "All ifuture development applications submitted to the City shall be reviewed in such a way that the 19th Street ;and Gisler. Avenue bridges, and the widening of East 19th iStreet, will not be included as mitigation measures." :Council Member. Erickson indicated that review of the cooperative study shall be done via memorandum, and recommended that Council Members rotate in attending study group meetings. 1 i� Council Member. Buffa asked for confirmation that the proposed policy will not disrupt the cooperative study with the County. . The Public Services Director responded that the key will be the actual adoption of the City's Master. Plan of Highways. Addressing the concerns of Vice Mayor. Genis, Council Member. Erickson explained that the intent of his motion was to work with the County on the cooperative study, and regardless of the study's outcome, the bridges and 19th Street widening shall be removed from the City's Master. Plan of Highways. The motion carried 5-0. MOTION/Adopted Vice Mayor. Genis made a motion, seconded by Council Policy to Initiate Member. Humphrey, to add a policy in the General Plan: Land Use Amendments "Initiate studies to determine any necessary land use Upon Bridge amendments which would occur upon bridge deletion". Deletion The motion carried 5-0. MOTION/Adopt the A motion was made by Council Member. Buffa, seconded by Master. Plan of Mayor. Hornbuckle, to adopt the Master. Plan of Highways. Highways Vice Mayor. Genis was not prepared to vote on the motion since there were certain improvements she wanted to remove, such as Fairview Road/Wilson Street, and several others which would not be needed under. Alternative 2. She also asked if it would be possible at this time to downgrade Baker. Street, Del Mar. Avenue, 22nd Street, and East 19th Street. Mayor. Hornbuckle mentioned that circulation system modifications are contained on Table 10, Pages 147 through 150 of the EIR, with footnotes indicating those improvements which would not be neces- sary with the various land use alternatives. Senior. Planner. Alice Angus pointed out that a clearer version of the circulation system modifications are contained in Appendix B of the EIR, starting at Page B V-2. Council Member. Buffa stated that the Master. Plan of Highways includes improvements beyond those densities contained in Alternative 2, and he would expect that part of the refinement by staff would be to delete the appropriate improvements. Council Member. Buffa AMENDED MOTION then amended his motion as follows: Approve the Master. Added that Staff Plan of Highways with the understanding that when staff Shall Make the resubmits it to Council, the traffic circulation modifi- Appr.opriate Changes cations will have been made which delete improvements no to the Master. Plan longer, necessary. The amended motion was seconded by of Highways Council Member. Erickson. Vice Mayor. Genis was of the opinion that the motion should be more specific, and read those intersection modifications from Page B V-3 of the EIR which she.felt should be deleted: Nos. 7, 11, 12, 28, 34, 45, 46, 70, 73, 79, 90, 91, 95, and 109. The Public Services Director clarified that the Master. Plan of Highways under discussion does not include the Gisler. Bridge, nor deletion of Bluff Road between Victoria and 19th Streets; therefore, it does not conform with the County's Master. Plan of Arterial High- ways. He explained that the Gisler. Bridge and Bluff Road segment must be in the City's Master. Plan. In addition, the Public Services Director noted that on Page 147 of the EIR, it indicates deletion of Bluff Road between Wilson and 19th Streets; however., the County will allow for deletion of Bluff Road between Wilson and Victoria Streets. He also advised that although the County agrees with deleting Bluff Road south of Victoria Street, County staff requested the City to retain that portion of Bluff Road in its Master. Plan of Highways until the EIR for. Talbert Regional Park has been developed. �. 203. SECOND AMENDED MOTION/Adopted Master. Plan Includ- the Gisler. Bridge and a Segment of Bluff Road; Directed Staff to Adjust Traffic Improvements RECESS Master. Plan of Bikeways MOTION/Adopted Master. Plan of Bikeways with Modifications Council Member. Buffa stated that he would amend the motion again to include the data provided by the Public Services Director. For clarification purposes, the Principal Planner stated that staff will remove any improvements having Subscript 2 which are no longer required with some minor. variations. ;Council Member. Buffa restated his motion which included the two amendments: Adopt the Master. Plan of Highways as proposed, including the data regarding Bluff Road as explained by the Public Services Director., and adjust the Plan so it matches the density scenarios that were 'adopted this evening. The second amended motion was seconded by Council Member. Erickson, and carried 4-1, Vice Mayor. Genis-voting no. After, recess, Council Member. Buffa clarified that the Master. Plan of Highways which was adopted retains the Gisler Avenue Bridge and ,that segment of Bluff Road south of VictoriaStreet. r. declared a recess at 8:40 p.m., and the meet- nvened at 8:55 p.m. Mayor. Hornbuckle requested comments on the Master Plan of Bikeways. Council Member. Erickson wanted confirma- ;tion that the Master. Plan of Bikeways reflects an I bikeway on Tanager Drive rather than one that winds behind the back yards. Council Member. Buffa I that Tanager. Drive is designated as having a Class 3 bike lane. On motion by Council Member. Erickson, seconded by Council Member. Buffa, and carried 5-0, the following action was taken: The Master. Plan of Bikeways was adopted stipulating that Tanager. Drive shall have an on-site bike lane as stated earlier. by Council Member. Erickson; including proposed amendments shown on Page 50 of the EIR, and the additional amendments shown in the Transportation Manager's memorandum to the Transporta- tion Commission dated August 14, 1991; and including the following modifications and addition: (1) Bear. Street (Baker. Street to South Coast Drive), add bike lane to the Master. Plan of Bikeways; (2) Fairview Road (Baker. Street to South Coast Drive), add bike lane to the Master. Plan of Bikeways; and (3) Baker. (Fairview to College), delete anv classification of a bikeway. "Consider.", rather. than "Require" 7 Vice Mayor. Genis requested that future consideration be given to changing the bike lane on South Coast Drive to a bike trail. Transportation Mayor. Hornbuckle requested comments and/or. motions on Goals, Objectives, the Transportation'Goals, Objectives, and Policies and Policies contained on Pages 344 through 349 of the General Plan. MOTION/Adopted i A motion was made by Council Member. Buffa, seconded by Goals, Objectives, Council Member. Erickson, adopting the Transportation and Policies Goals, Objectives, and Policies via the Consent Calendar method which allows each Council Member, to remove speci- fic items for. discussion. The following policies were removed: Council Member. Erickson - 163, 175, 176, 179, 187, 188, 196, and 206; Vice Mayor. Genis - 164, 168, 201, 205, 209, and 218. The motion to approve all Gals, Objectives, and Policies except for those which were removed, carried 5-0. MOTION/Adopt A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Policy 163 as by Council Member. Buffa, to adopt Policy 163 with the Modified modification that the first word shall be changed to "Consider.", rather. than "Require" 7 �: Te �0 SUBSTITUTE MOTION Vice Mayor. Genis made a substitute motion to adopt Adopted Modified modified Policy 163: "Require dedication of right -of - Policy 163 way in an equitable manner.=for canpletion of adopted bikeway system as condition of development of adjacent properties". The substitute motion was seconded by Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 4-1, Council Member. Buffa voting no. MOTION/Adopted Vice Mayor. Genis asked for verification that the wording Policy 164 in Policy 164 requires bicycles to be walked on bridge walkways as opposed to not allowing bicycles at all. The Public Services Director confirmed that her inter- pretation was correct. On motion by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, Policy 164 was adopted. MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Modified Policy Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, adopting 168 modified Policy 168: "Investigate all available operational measures, including the use of one-way streets, to improve traffic circulation and minimize delay and congestion on arterials". MOTION/Deleted On motion by Council Member. Erickson, seconded by Vice Policy 175 Mayor. Genis, and carried 5-0, Policy 175 was deleted based on the information that implementation of this program is covered by Air. Quality Management District (AQMD) Regulation 15, and the City's regulations are contained in Policy 176. MOTION/Adopted On motion by Council Member. Erickson, seconded by Policy 176 Council Member. Humphrey, -and carried 5-0, Policy 176 was adopted. MOTION/Adopt A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded .Modified Policy by Council Member. Humphrey, to delete "should" and 179 replace it with "shall" in Policy 179. SUBSTITUTE MOTION After brief discussion, a motion was made by Mayor. Adopted Modified Hornbuckle, seconded by Council Member. Buffa, and Policy 179 carried 5-0, adopting modified Policy 179: "Encourage land uses permitted by the General Plan which generate high traffic volumes to (deleted "should") be located near major transportation corridors and public transit facilities to minimize vehicle use, congestion, and delay". MOTION/Directed A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Staff to Update by Council Member. Buffa, and carried 5-0, directing Policy 188 staff to bring back Policy 188 in a final form which reflects the intensities Council adopted this evening. During discussion on Policies 187 and 188, Vice Mayor. Genis stated that under. Alternative 2, the only inter- sections listed in Policy 187 which would exceed Level of Service (LOS) "D" would be Harbor. Boulevard/South Coast Drive which would increase to .91; and Bristol Street/Sunflower. Avenue which would increase to .92. MOTION/Directed A motion was made by Council Member. Buffa, seconded by Staff to Update Council Member. Erickson, directing staff to bring back Policy 187 Policy 187 in a final form which reflects the intensi- ties Council adopted this evening. Vice Mayor. Genis requested an addition to the motion which would specify a maximum Level of Service for those intersections which may not be able to attain LOS "D";however., Council Member. Buffa felt his motion covered that concern. The motion carried 5-0. MOTION/Directed A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Staff to Update by Council Member. Buffa, and carried 5-0, directing Policy 188 staff to bring back Policy 188 in a final form which reflects the intensities Council adopted this evening. _20G MOTION/Deleted On motion by Council Member. Erickson, seconded by Policy 196 Council Member Buffa, and carried 5-0, Policy 196 was ,deleted. MOTION/Adopted On motion by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Council Modified Policy Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, modified Policy 201 201 'was adopted: change "San Joaquin Hills Freeway" to "San Joaquin Hills Toll Road" i jDiscussion ensued regarding the necessity to change OCTC (Orange County. Transportation Commission) to OCTA (Orange County Transportation Authority) since OCTC its referenced in Policies 201 and 205. The Principal jPlanner reported that the Planning Commission previously made a recommendation that all references to OCTC and Orange County Transit District (OCTD) shall be changed to OCTA. MOTION/Adopted ';On motion by Council Member. Buffa, seconded by Vice Policy 205 ,'Mayor. Genis, and carried 5-0, Policy 205 was adopted. MOTION/Directed I 'A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Staff to Update by Vice Mayor. Genis, and carried 5-0, directing staff Policy 206 ito bring back Policy 206 in a final form which reflects the intensities Council adopted this evening. IVice Mayor. Genis asked whether it would be appropriate to retain Policy 209 since it references mixed-use developments. The Principal Planner recommended that MOTION/Adopted !the policy be retained. On motion by Council Member. Policy 209 Humphrey, seconded by Council Member. Erickson, and carried 5-0, Policy 209 was adopted. MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Modified Policy ;Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, adopting 218 modified Policy 218: "Continue to participate in ;countywide and/or local intergovernmental transportation planning and growth management efforts." (The remainder. 'of the policy was deleted: "to maintain City eligi- bility for sales tax revenues authorized by the County of Orange Revised Traffic and Growth Management Ordinance".) i MOTION/Changed i IOn motion by Council Member Buffa, seconded by Council "Commuter." to Member. Erickson, and carried 5-0, "Commuter. Highway" "Collector." was changed to "Collector. Highway" in the Master. Plan Highway iof Highways as recommended on Pages 3 and 4 of staff's ",Agenda Report dated December. 20, 1991. Additional Policies ;Mayor. Hornbuckle asked if there were additional policies ;which Council wished to add. MOTION/Adopted New Vice Mayor. Genis made a motion to adopt a new policy: Policy to Downgrade "Initiate studies to consider. downgrading Baker. Street Certain Streets between Fairview Road and Harbor. Boulevard, Del Mar. ,Avenue, 22nd Street, and Santa Isabel Avenue". The (motion was seconded by Council Member. Humphrey, and (carried 5-0. (Nice MOTION/Adopted New Mayor. Genis made a motion to adopt a new policy: Policy to Minimize !"Minimize circulation improvements that will necessitate Taking of Private Ithe taking of private property on existing, developed Property iparcels. The motion was seconded by Council Member Humphrey, and carried 5-0. Land Use Element jMayor. Hornbuckle requested Council comments on the Land ;Use Element. MOTION/Modified Text Vice Mayor. Genis made a motion to modify the first line on Page 352 of the of the first paragraph on Page 352 of the General Plan General Plan by deleting "multi -family". The motion was seconded by Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0. Land Use Classifi- The Mayor presented the Land Use Classifications Text cations Text contained on Pages 393 through 409 of the General Plan, which has been replaced by Errata dated January 31, 1992, attached to the Agenda report of January 29, 1992. MOTION/Adopt Text A motion was made by Council Member. Buffa, seconded by as Modified in Council Member. Erickson, to adopt the Land Use Classi- the Errata fications Text as modified in the aforementioned Errata. Vice Mayor. Genis requested removal of those portions which provide for complementary commercial uses in resi- dential areas. She found only one area in the City that she felt was appropriate for complementary commercial uses, that being at Fairview Read and Fair Drive. SUBSTITUTE MOTION A substitute motion was made by Vice Mayor. Genis, Remove Complemen- seconded by Council Member. Humphrey, to delete Comple- tary Commercial mentary Commercial uses from all residential descrip- fr.om All Residen- tions. Considerable discussion ensued regarding the tial Descriptions the feasibility of allowing Complementary Commercial uses within larger planned developments. AMENDED SUBSTITUTE Vice Mayor. Genis made an amended substitute motion, MOTION/Deleted seconded by Council Member. Humphrey, to eliminate Complementary Complementary Commercial use in Low Density Residen- Commercial from LDR tial (LDR) areas. Second Amended After. discussion, Vice Mayor. Genis made a second amended Substitute Motion substitute motion to delete Complementary Commercial Deleting Comple- from the Planned Development Residential - Low Density mentary Commercial designation; however, after further deliberation, Vice from PDR -LD was Mayor. Genis withdrew this motion. Withdrawn The amended substitute motion,. to remove Complementary Commercial Uses from Low Density Residential areas, carried ied 5-0 . Motion to Remove A motion by Vice Mayor. Genis to remove Complementary Complementary - Commercial from Medium Density Residential areas died Commercial from for lack of a second. MDR Died Senior. Planner Alice Angus clarified that where Council has indicated lower densities, staff will be modifying the population figures to reflect lect those changes for the medium and high density residential areas, as well as the commercial zones. Mayor. Hornbuckle called for a vote on the original motion by Council Member. Buffa to adopt the Land Use Classifications Text as modified in the Errata. The motion carried 5-0. MOTION/Deleted Item On motion by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Council 2, Page 388 of the Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, Item 2 on Page 388 General Plan Errata of the General Plan Errata was deleted. MOTION/Amended Text A motion was made by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by on Page 388 of the Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, to amend the General Plan Errata text in the first paragraph on Page 388 of the General Plan Errata to conform with the recommended wording on Page 94 of the Agenda Report dated December. 20, 1991: Delete, "As such, the allowable building intensities must be flexible to allow higher levels of development Add a stipulation that trip budget transfers shall be recorded against the property; and delete "Traffic Analysis Zone" in Items 4 and 6 and reword as follows: Item 4, "The combination and/or transfer of trips shall not exceed the total trip budget of each parcel involved if it were developed independently according to the floor area ratio and trip genera- tion rates provided herein"; Item 6, Substitute "or properties" for "Traffic Analysis Zone". ;The motion was seconded by Council Member. Humphrey, and 'carried 5-0. MOTION/Amended A motion was made by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Definition of Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, deleting the "Effective Trip second sentence from the definition of "Effective Trip Generation" Generation" on Page 392 of the General Plan Errata. MOTION/Amended A motion.was made made by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Definition of Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, deleting "Gross Floor. Area" ;"nonresidential" from the definition of "Gross Floor. Area" on Page 392 of the General Plan Errata. MOTION/Amended On motion by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Council Definition of Member. Erickson, and carried 570, the definition of "Floor. Area Ratio" "Floor. Area Ratio" was amended to read: "Floor. Area Ratio shall mean the gross floor area of a building or project divided by therp.oject (deleted 'gross') lot area upon which it is located". (See Page 392 of the General Plan Errata.) Land Use Goals, The following Land Use Policies were removed for discus - Objectives, and !sion: Vice Mayor. Genis - 111, 117, 223, 229, 231, and Policies ;237; Council Member. Erickson - 225, 226, and 227. MOTION/Adopted On motion by Council Member. Erickson, seconded by Land Use Policies Council Member. Buffa, and carried 5-0, the remaining land use policies were adopted. MOTION/Adopted Vice Mayor. Genis opposed Policy 111 relating to use of Policy 111 eminent domain. A motion was made by Council Member. Buffa, seconded by,Council Member. Erickson, to adopt Policy 111. The motion carried 4-1, Vice Mayor. Genis I oting no. I for. low traffic impact uses and lower levels of develop- ment for high traffic impact uses"; and in its place, 'add, "Using this approach, higher..traffic generating land uses (i.e. restaurants) will be limited to a dower building intensity than from other lower traffic generating uses". MOTION/Deleted ;A motion was made by Vice Mayor Genis, seconded by Paragraph from Page Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, to delete the 390 of the General second paragraph from the bottom of Page 390 of the Plan Errata General Plan Errata, as indicated on Page 95 of the Agenda Report dated December. 20, 1991. MOTION/Amended Referencing Page 391 of the General Plan Errata, Vice Page 391 of the Mayor. Genis made the following motion: General Plan Errata Amend Item 1 by limiting trip budget transfers to one mile measuring from the property lines; delete Traffic Analysis Zone (TAZ), and reference only that area north of the 405 Freeway and east of Bear Street; Add a stipulation that trip budget transfers shall be recorded against the property; and delete "Traffic Analysis Zone" in Items 4 and 6 and reword as follows: Item 4, "The combination and/or transfer of trips shall not exceed the total trip budget of each parcel involved if it were developed independently according to the floor area ratio and trip genera- tion rates provided herein"; Item 6, Substitute "or properties" for "Traffic Analysis Zone". ;The motion was seconded by Council Member. Humphrey, and 'carried 5-0. MOTION/Amended A motion was made by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Definition of Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, deleting the "Effective Trip second sentence from the definition of "Effective Trip Generation" Generation" on Page 392 of the General Plan Errata. MOTION/Amended A motion.was made made by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Definition of Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, deleting "Gross Floor. Area" ;"nonresidential" from the definition of "Gross Floor. Area" on Page 392 of the General Plan Errata. MOTION/Amended On motion by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Council Definition of Member. Erickson, and carried 570, the definition of "Floor. Area Ratio" "Floor. Area Ratio" was amended to read: "Floor. Area Ratio shall mean the gross floor area of a building or project divided by therp.oject (deleted 'gross') lot area upon which it is located". (See Page 392 of the General Plan Errata.) Land Use Goals, The following Land Use Policies were removed for discus - Objectives, and !sion: Vice Mayor. Genis - 111, 117, 223, 229, 231, and Policies ;237; Council Member. Erickson - 225, 226, and 227. MOTION/Adopted On motion by Council Member. Erickson, seconded by Land Use Policies Council Member. Buffa, and carried 5-0, the remaining land use policies were adopted. MOTION/Adopted Vice Mayor. Genis opposed Policy 111 relating to use of Policy 111 eminent domain. A motion was made by Council Member. Buffa, seconded by,Council Member. Erickson, to adopt Policy 111. The motion carried 4-1, Vice Mayor. Genis I oting no. MOTION/Adopted On motion by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Council Amended Policy 117 Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, amended Policy 117 was adopted: "Allow creation of. parcels without street frontage if sufficient easements are provided for planned developments or condominium developments". Motion to Amend Vice Mayor. Genis made a motion to add a sentence to Policy 223 Died Policy 223: "This shall include an examination of secondary impacts associated with any increase in housing needed to serve a development". The motion died for lack of a second. MOTION/Adopted On motion by Council Member. Buffa, seconded by Council Policy 223 Member. Erickson, and carried 5-0, Policy 223 was adopted. MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Council Member Erickson, seconded Amended Policies by Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, adopting 225 and 226 Policies 225 and 226 with the addition of the word "Strongly" at the beginning of each policy. MOTION/Adopted On motion by Council Member. Erickson, seconded by Policies 227, Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, the following 227A and 227B action was taken: Adopted Policy 227. .Adopted Policy 227A as recommended by the Planning Commission, ".Pursue means to increase the stock of detached single-family housing by development of small -lot subdivision standards to be applied in a Medium Density Residential classification".. Adopted Policy 227B as recommended by the Planning Commission, "Aggressively pursue methods to discourage the development of multiple units on long, narrow, single parcels. Possible methods could include a lot combination zoning incentive or the creation of new, lower density zoning to be applied to lots with less than a certain minimum frontage". MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Vice -Mayor. Genis, seconded by Amended Policy Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, adopting 229 Policy 229 with an amendment which places a comma after the word "activity". MOTION/Adopted On motion by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Council Amended Policy Member. Erickson, and carried 5-0, Policy 231 was adopted 231 with an amendment which substitutes the word "encourage" for the word "permit". MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Amended Policy Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, adopting 237 Policy 237 with the addition of a phrase at the end of the policy, "and consider alternative measures such as landscaped pockets in parking lanes". Motion to Limit A motion was made by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by FAR in any Phase of Council Member. Humphrey, to add the following policy, Phased Developments "In phased developments, prohibit the FAR of any phase Withdrawn to exceed the overall FAR by greater. than 25 percent". The City Attorney stated that he would like to meet with Vice Mayor. Genis and the Principal Planner to work on appropriate wording, and have it available for, the next meeting at which the General Plan is discussed. In view of that suggestion, Vice Mayor Genis withdrew her. motion. Lw.�(,C G■ MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Council Member. Erickson, seconded Additional Policy by Vice Mayor Genis, and carried 5-0, adding the follow- on Lot Combinations ling policy: "Develop incentives for combination, or disincentives for development without lot combination. Consider policies such as zoning designations which fall between zones or through development standards which tie density to lot width as well as area". i Densities in the Council Member. Erickson stated that the densities adopted Redevelopment Area for the General Plan are less than those for. the Redevel- opment Area, and requested data on resolving this issue. The City Attorney suggested amending the Redevelopment Plan so it would be in accordance with the General Plan. Transition Zone A motion was made by Council Member Erickson, seconded Area by Council Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, to add a goal to the Land Use Element which would implement the MOTION/Adopted an RUDAT (Regional Urban Design Assistance Team) Study in Additional Goal the Transition Zone: "Commercial uses as approved in for. the Land Use the commercial uses list for. the Transition Area ( 854 Element through 1014 West 19th Street - even numbers only, and 1903 Federal Avenue), or later approved through a Specific Plan for this area shall be allowed. A Specific Plan shall be prepared ed for. the Transition Area to further address allowable uses, trip budget limits, and design guidelines". MOTION/Amended On motion by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Council Page 399 of the Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, the following action General Plan was taken: On Page 399 of the General Plan, sixth I aragraph, second line, change "one- to five -story buildings" to "one- to four. -story buildings" in accordance with Policy 233. MOTION/Assigned On motion by Vice Mayor. Genis, seconded by Council Policies to the Member. Humphrey, and carried 5-0, the following policies Appropriate Sub- were assigned to appropriate subelements of the General elements of the Plan: Policy 37 - Page 263; Policy 77 - Page 50; Poli - General Plan cies 125 through 129 - Page 273; Policy 154 - Page 273; and Policies 249 through 252 - Pages 349 and 421. MOTION/Adopted A motion was made by Council Member. Buffa, seconded by Amended Policy Vice Mayor. Genis, and carried 5-0, to adopt amended 133 Policy 133: "Develop design standards and guidelines for the placement of art in public places". (Deleted "and private landscaped areas available to the public, such as greenbelts, patios, courtyards, etc".) RECESS The Mayor declared a recess at 10:30 p.m., and the meet- ing reconvened at 10:40 p.m. Public/Semi-Public The Principal Planner summarized the data contained on Use Pages 61 and 62 of the General Plan Errata regarding Public and Semi -Public uses: staff recommended that Categories S -School and I -Institutional be combined as I -Institutional, and that the Public and Semi -Public designation for. 271 Avocado Street be expanded to I all of the church's property. He also reported that the Newport -Mesa Unified School District prefers retaining the existing designation of Low Density Resi- dential for. the Bear. Street School site; however., as MOTION/Adopted written, the General Plan redesignated this site for. Staff's Reconmenda- Public and Semi -Public use. on motion by Council tions; Retained Member. Erickson, seconded by Council Member. Humphrey, Category "I" for and carried 5-0, staff's recommendations were adopted, the Bear. Street and Category "I" was retained for. the Bear. Street School Site School site. MOTION On motion by Council Member. Buffa, seconded by Council Certified EIR -Member. Erickson, and carried 5-0, EIR No. 1044 was No. 1044 certified based on the following findings: (1) Final EIR No. 1044 has been completed in -compliance with CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act); and (2) The City Council has reviewed and considered the information in Final EIR No. 1044 prior to approving the proposed General Plan. MOTION/Continued On motion by Council Member. Humphrey, seconded by the Public Hearing Council Member. Erickson, and carried 5-0, the public to March 2, 1992 hearing was continued to March 2, 1992, for adoption of the final 1990 General Plan. COUNCIL MEMBERS Council thanked the Steering Committee members and the COMMENTS public for their. input. Special thanks was extended to staff for all the time and effort spent on prepar- ing the General Plan. ADJOURNMENT At 10:55 p.m., the Mayor adjourned the meeting to March 2, 1992, at 6:30 -p.m., in the Council Chambers of City Hall. Mayor of e City of Costa Mesa ATTEST: 4 -My Clerk of the City of Costa esa 1