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Exhibit A <br /> <br />RECOMMENDED FINDINGS OF FACT <br />AND DETERMINATIONS FOR APPROVAL OF <br />PLN17-0034 <br />311 MacArthur Boulevard <br />APN’s 76-311-30-1, 76-311-1-3, 76-311-3, 76-311-4, 76-311-5 <br />David Langon (Applicant), 311 MacArthur Boulevard LLC (Property Owner) <br /> <br />The Planning Commission hereby recommends City Council approval of PLN17-0034, <br />subject to the following findings: <br />CEQA ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW <br />A Consistency Memorandum has been prepared in accordance with CEQA Guidelines, <br />California Code of Regulations Section 15183, with the finding that the Proposed Project <br />is consistent with a Community Plan or Zoning, that there are no project-specific <br />significant effects which are peculiar to the project or its site, and therefore no additional <br />environmental review is required. <br />ZONING AMENDMENT <br />1. The proposed rezone must be in general agreement with the adopted General <br />Plan of the City. <br />The General Plan designates the majority of this site (approximately 93%) as <br />Corridor Mixed Use, with a small spur (approximately 7%) identified as Low <br />Density Residential. CC Commercial Community zoning is conditionally <br />compatible within the Corridor Mixed Use designation, which allows for <br />sufficiently dense residential uses to support major transit-served arterials designed <br />to encourage walking and bicycle use. Projects incorporating housing are subject <br />to a maximum floor area ratio (FAR) of 1.5 and there is no maximum residential <br />density in this General Plan land use designation. Low Density Residential is <br />intended for single-family homes, but is conditionally compatible with duplex <br />development. <br /> <br />The proposed development is designed in a linear pattern along MacArthur <br />Boulevard, a major transit arterial, and amounts to an FAR of 0.88, which is below <br />the maximum allowed by the General Plan designation. No development is <br />proposed for the Low Density Residential portion of the project site, which is <br />planned for open space and on-site bio-retention. <br /> <br />The rezone of an approximately 3,900 square foot portion of the site from RS to <br />CC will align the zoning district with the General Plan. In addition, the rezoning of <br />the project site from CC and RS to CC(PD) and RS(PD) Districts will subject any