Zoning Administrator

MINUTES ZONING ADMINISTRATOR Wednesday, September 16, 2020 2000 Main Street Huntington Beach, CA 92648 Study Session - Regular Meeting - 1:30 PM RICKY RAMOS, Senior Planner STAFF JOANNA CORTEZ, Associate Planner ISELA SIORDIA, Administrative Secretary 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. Zoning Administrator MINUTES September 16, 2020 DUE TO GOVERNOR NEWSOM’S EXECUTIVE ORDER and the City Council’s Declaration of Local Emergency regarding the Covid-19 pandemic, the City will be holding the Zoning Administrator public hearing via the Zoom meeting platform. Public comments may be submitted via two options: 1) Submit written comments to community.development@surfcity-hb.org (reference Zoning Administrator and the agenda item number) by 10:00 AM the day of the meeting. If you would like your e-comment read aloud at the hearing, please indicate so in your email; or 2) Join the meeting remotely from your phone. Please let staff know at the start of the meeting that you wish to speak on a particular item. You will have THREE MINUTES to speak, per person, no donating of time. The following is the phone number for the Zoom meeting and dial-in instructions: a. Phone Number: +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) b. Meeting ID: 950 3157 9931 Any interested parties can participate in the public hearing via telephone. The dial-in information is the same as Option 2, which is listed above. All interested parties are invited to contact the staff planner at 714-536-5271 before the meeting if you have any questions about the project or if you need information on participating in the public hearing. CALL TO ORDER PUBLIC COMMENTS Anyone wishing to speak during PUBLIC COMMENTS must fill out and submit a form to speak. The Zoning Administrator can take no action on this date, unless the item is agendized. Anyone wishing to speak on items not on today’s agenda, 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) CONSENT CALENDAR - None PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NO. 20-002 (PCH MIXED USE BLDG. - CONTINUED FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2, 2020, ZONING ADMINISTRATOR MEETING) REQUEST: To permit the construction of a three-story mixed use building Page 2 of 2 Zoning Administrator MINUTES September 16, 2020 consisting of: 1) a three-story, 5,968 sq. ft. restaurant with 545 sq. ft. of outdoor dining and the sale, service, and consumption of alcohol (ABC License Type 47); 2) ground level parking to serve the commercial use; and 3) a three-story 1,716 sq. ft. townhome with a 364 sq. ft. two-car garage and an 825 sq. ft. roof top deck. The project is located in the non-certified Sunset Beach Specific Plan area and includes a review via an “approval in concept” process for the construction of the project. LOCATION: 16655 Pacific Coast Highway, 92649 (northeast corner of PCH and 18th St. - Sunset Beach) Attachments: ATT#1 - CUP 20-002 (PCH MIXED-USE BUILDING)) Findings and Conditions ATT#2 - Plans - 16655 PCH 6.30.20_7.29.20 This agenda item was approved with conditions. ADJOURNMENT The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Zoning Adminstrator is Wednesday, October 7, 2020, at 1:30 PM via Zoom meeting. Under the provisions of the Huntington Beach Zoning and Subdivision Ordinance, the action taken by the Zoning Administrator is final unless an appeal is filed to the Planning Commission by you or by an interested party. Said appeal must be in writing and must set forth in detail the action and grounds by which the applicant or interested party deems himself aggrieved. Said appeal must be accompanied by a filing fee of Three Thousand One Hundred Two Dollars ($3,102.00) if the appeal is filed by a single family dwelling property owner appealing the decision on his own property and Four Thousand Two Hundred Eighty-One Dollars ($4281.00) if the appeal is filed by any other party. The appeal shall be submitted to the Secretary of the Planning Commission within ten (10) calendar days of the date of the Zoning Administrator's action or ten (10) working days for a coastal development permit. Page 1 of 2 Zoning Administrator MINUTES September 16, 2020 INTERNET ACCESS TO THE ZONING ADMINSTRATOR AGENDA AND STAFF REPORT MATERIAL IS AVAILABLE PRIOR TO ZONING ADMINISTRATOR MEETINGS AT: https://huntingtonbeach.legistar.com/ 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 Zoning Administrator at 714-536-7251 for more information, or request assistance from the staff or Sergeant-at-Arms at the meeting. Page 2 of 2