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2500 Davis Street 2 November 4, 2002 PLN2002-00031 session was held with the Planning Commission on October 1, 2002 (see attached staff report). At its regularly scheduled meeting of October 10, 2002, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on the proposal, with a motion made to forward the application to the City Council with a recommendation to approve (5 ayes; 1 nay; 1 absent). Recommendation: Staff recommends that the City Council take the following actions for approval of the proposed project: A. Adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration and associated Mitigation Monitoring Program that provides mitigation measures required for the project to avoid significant effects on the environment. B. Rezone the property from IG Industrial General District to IG-PD, Industrial General Planned Development Overlay District. C. Approve a Planned Development to develop a new industrial business park, subject to recommended findings and conditions of approval. D. Approve Tentative Tract Map 7382 to create nine (9) total lots (8 lots for development with a single industrial building each and 1 lot comprised of the private access road and wetlands mitigation area), subject to recommended findings and conditions of approval. E. Direct staff to create and return to City Council for review and approval of a Traffic Impact Fee Area, which is to be established for funding of certain roadway improvements. BACKGROUND • The former Hohener meatpacking business ceased operation in 1991. The project site had been used for approximately sixty (60) years as a slaughterhouse, including the raising of cattle on -site and feed grain production. The project site has remained undeveloped during the interim, although certain uses (including storage of tires associated with the recycling activities occurring at the adjacent transfer station) have been allowed on -site. • The project site encompasses a wetlands mitigation area, which is in its final year of monitoring by the Army Corps of Engineers. The wetlands mitigation area was required due to illegal dumping and fill of a wetland area on -site, which occurred in the mid-1990s. The retention of the wetlands area has been incorporated into the projects, with the proposal being designed to minimize impacts to the wetlands. • Subsequent to the September 3, 2002 City Council meeting, the applicant did arrange to meet with several neighborhood representatives, to hear their concerns about the project. The meeting was run by an outside consultant who acted as moderator. In addition to neighborhood representatives and the applicant, Planning and Engineering staff were in