Planning Commission

AGENDA PLANNING COMMISSION Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Civic Center, Council Chambers 2000 Main Street Huntington Beach, CA 92648 Regular Meeting - 6:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION Chair Butch Twining Vice-Chair Don Kennedy Commissioner Kayla Acosta-Galvan Commissioner Oscar Rodriguez Commissioner Ian Adam Commissioner Rick Wood Commissioner Tracy Pellman STAFF Jill Arabe Bos, Deputy Director of Community Development Ricky Ramos, Planning Manager Connor Hyland, Deputy City Attorney Kim De Coite, Administrative Assistant MEETING ASSISTANCE NOTICE: In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, services are available to members of our community who require special assistance to participate in public meetings. If you require special assistance, 48-hour prior notification will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements for an assisted listening device (ALD) for the hearing impaired, American Sign Language interpreters, a reader during the meeting and/or large print agendas. Please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (714) 536-5227 for more information, or request assistance from the staff or Sergeant-at-Arms at the meeting. PUBLIC COMMENTS: To address the legislative body on items of interest not scheduled for public hearing, Request to Speak forms will be made available at the meeting and are collected by the staff or Sergeant at Arms. Some legislative bodies may provide different Request to Speak forms for public hearing items. AUDIO/VIDEO ACCESS TO BROADCASTED MEETINGS: City Council and Planning Commission meetings are televised live on HBTV-3 Channel 3, and can be viewed via live or archived website at https://huntingtonbeach.legistar.com. The Planning Commission, made up of seven individual direct appointee members is a quasi-judicial body empowered by State law and the City Council. The Planning Commission study session is open to public attendance but is not a public hearing. The meetings are subject to the Brown Act and televised live on local cable HBTV Channel 3. The Planning Commission study session is open to public attendance but is not a public hearing. Projects typically acted upon by the Planning Commission are major development proposals, tentative tract maps, zoning map amendments, zoning text amendments, general plan amendments, and various similar applications. In reviewing a project, project planners consult with various City departments as well as appropriate regional and state agencies. Environmental assessments are conducted concurrently with each project analysis. The review process for a Planning Commission item normally requires four to five months. For more information, please contact Community Development department at 714-536-5276 or email planning.commission@surfcity-hb.org. Planning Commission AGENDA September 10, 2024 6:00 PM - COUNCIL CHAMBERS CALL PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING TO ORDER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ROLL CALL: Adam, Pellman, Kennedy, Twining, Wood, Rodriguez, Acosta-Galvan PUBLIC COMMENTS Anyone wishing to speak during PUBLIC COMMENTS must fill out and submit a form to speak . The Planning Commission can take no action on this date, unless the item is agendized. Anyone wishing to speak on items not on tonight’s agenda, a closed public hearing item, or on non-public hearing items may do so during PUBLIC COMMENTS. Please note comments on closed public hearing items will not be part of the permanent entitlement record. Speakers on items scheduled for PUBLIC HEARING will be invited to speak during the public hearing. (3 MINUTES PER PERSON, NO DONATING OF TIME TO OTHERS) PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS 24-478 CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NO. 23-007 (MIDWAY CONCEPTS MIXED USE PROJECT) REQUEST: CUP: To permit the construction of a four-story mixed-use project consisting of ground floor podium parking and 1,000 sq. ft. of commercial space, and 15 residential units on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors in the Neighborhood Boulevard Segment of the Beach and Edinger Corridors Specific Plan (SP14), with reduced front yard setbacks along the Beach Blvd. and Speer Drive frontages. LOCATION: 7942 Speer Drive, 92647 (Southwest corner of Beach Boulevard at Speer Drive) Recommended Action: That the Planning Commission take the following actions: A) Find the proposed project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15182 of the CEQA Guidelines and Government Code 65457. B) Approve Conditional Use Permit No. 23-007 with findings and conditions of approval (Attachment No. 1). Page 2 of 6 Planning Commission AGENDA September 10, 2024 24-596 REVISED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT NO. 21-004, GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 21-004, ZONING MAP AMENDMENT NO. 21-003, ZONING TEXT AMENDMENT NO. 22-005, CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NO. 21-024 (BOLSA CHICA SENIOR CARE COMMUNITY) REQUEST: REVISED EIR: To analyze the potential environmental impacts associated with the revised project; GPA: Revise the General Plan Land Use Map designation from Commercial General (CG) to Mixed Use (MU) with a Specific Plan Overlay; ZMA: To amend the zoning designation from Commercial General (CG) to Specific Plan 19 (SP-19); ZTA: To establish the Bolsa Chica Senior Care Community Specific Plan including development standards for height, open space, and convalescent uses on the subject site; CUP: To demolish 50,000 sq. ft. of existing commercial space and construct a new four-story 215,000 sq. ft. convalescent facility with on-site alcohol sales and consumption at a maximum overall height of 49.5 ft., consisting of 159 total units, a subterranean parking garage, and associated hardscape and landscape improvements on a property with a grade differential above three feet. LOCATION: 4952 & 4972 Warner Avenue, 92649 (Southwest corner of Bolsa Chica Street and Warner Avenue) Recommended Action: The Planning Commission has discretionary purview only over the Conditional Use Permit portion of the project request. The City Council has discretionary purview over the revised EIR, General Plan Amendment, Zoning Map Amendment, and Zoning Text Amendment. Therefore, the Planning Commission may take the following actions: A) Recommend certification of Environmental Impact Report No. 21-004 as adequate and complete in accordance with CEQA requirements by approving draft City Council Resolution No. 24-XX and forward to the City Council for adoption (Attachment No. 2); and Recommend approval of General Plan Amendment No. 21-004 by approving draft City Council Resolution No. 24-XX (Attachment No. 3), Zoning Map Amendment No. 21-003 with findings (Attachment No. 1) by approving draft City Council Ordinance No. XXXX (Attachment No. 4), and Zoning Text Amendment No. 22-005 with findings (Attachment No. 1) by approving draft City Council Resolution No. Page 3 of 6 Planning Commission AGENDA September 10, 2024 24-XX (Attachment No. 5); and Approve Conditional Use Permit No. 21-024 with findings and conditions of approval (Attachment No. 1). B) Deny General Plan Amendment No. 21-004/Zoning Map Amendment No. 21- 003/Zoning Text Amendment No. 22-005/Conditional Use Permit No. 21- 024/Environmental Impact Report No. 21-004. C) Continue Environmental Impact Report No. 21-004, General Plan Amendment No. 21-004, Zoning Map Amendment No. 21-003, Zoning Text Amendment No. 22-005, and Conditional Use Permit No. 21-024 and direct staff accordingly. CONSENT CALENDAR - None NON-PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS - None PLANNING ITEMS PLANNING COMMISSION ITEMS ADJOURNMENT The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Huntington Beach Planning Commission is Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at 6:00 PM in Council Chambers, Civic Center, 2000 Main Street, Huntington Beach, California. INTERNET ACCESS TO PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA AND STAFF REPORT MATERIAL IS AVAILABLE PRIOR TO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETINGS AT http://www.huntingtonbeachca.gov Page 4 of 6 Planning Commission AGENDA September 10, 2024 Public Hearing Procedures This statement has been prepared to provide a better understanding of the procedures for public hearings before the Planning Commission. Regular meetings of the Planning Commission are held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month beginning at 5:00 p.m for a study session and then at 6:00 PM in the Council Chambers. Adjourned meetings, special meetings, and Study Sessions may be scheduled at other times. Planning Commission proceedings are governed by the Planning Commission By-Laws, Robert’s Rules of Order and the Brown Act. The following is the typical sequence of events on public hearing items: A. The Chairperson shall announce the item and if the public hearing is open or closed. B. The Planning Commission shall disclose any discussions, conversations, etc., with applicants, applicant’s representatives or property owners. C. The staff report is presented. D. Questions by the Planning Commission concerning the staff report may be answered at this time. E. The public hearing is opened by the Chairperson. F. The applicant or appellant is given an opportunity to address the Commission. Time is not limited but left to the Chairperson’s discretion. G. Public Comments: Staff will call all speakers by name. Please proceed to the podium. Individuals favoring and opposing the proposal are given an opportunity to address the Commission (up to four (3) minutes), or may choose to donate their time to another speaker if the “Request to Speak” form is filled out and given to the Secretary. A speaker who addresses the Commission on behalf of individuals who donate time are allowed a maximum of 12 minutes. Individuals who donate time must be present when the item is being discussed. Please state your name before addressing the Commission. H. The Commission may ask questions of speakers addressing the Commission. I. The public hearing is closed. J. The Commission will deliberate the matter at this time. Page 5 of 6 Planning Commission AGENDA September 10, 2024 K. The Commission then acts on the matter by continuing, approving, conditionally approving, or denying the petition. The Planning Commission receives a staff report packet on the Tuesday preceding the meeting, allowing time to review each case and make further investigations in the field prior to the scheduled meeting. Staff reports are available in the Community Development Department, the Central Library and on the City’s website (www.surfcity-hb.org) anytime on Wednesday preceding the Tuesday Planning Commission meeting. Under the provisions of the Huntington Beach Zoning and Subdivision Ordinance, the action taken by the Planning Commission is final unless an appeal is filed to the City Clerk by you or by an interested party. Said appeal must be accompanied by a filing fee of Two Thousand, Three Hundred Fifty-Three Dollars ($2,353.00) if the appeal is filed by a single family dwelling property owner appealing the decision on his own property and Three Thousand, Seven Hundred Seventy-Eight Dollars ($3,778.00) if the appeal is filed by any other party. The appeal shall be submitted to the City Clerk within ten (10) calendar days of the date of the Planning Commission’s action. Page 6 of 6