HomeMy WebLinkAboutPC Reso No 2018-70 (GPA 2018-02)RESOLUTTON NO. 2018-70
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COi'IMISSION OF THE CITY OF LAKE
ELSINORE, CALIFORNIA, RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF GENERAL PLAN
AMENDMENT NO.2O18-02
Whereas, the City of Lake Elsinore initiated General Plan Amendment (GPA) No. 2018-02 to
amend the General Plan Land Use designation of properties identified as Assessor's Parcel
Nos.(APNs) 377 -242-OO3 through -007, -012, -013, -O23, -028 and -029 from Gateway
Commercial (GWC) to Business Professional (BP); properties identified as APNs 377 -242-014
through -016, -018, -020 through -022, and -030; and 377-243-001 through -011, -013, -015
through -019 from GWC to General Commercial (GC); and properties located from Flint Street
along its northern edge, southwesterly to the edge of the Lake and generally bounded by Riley
Street and the Lake Elsinore Outlet Channel on the west and Ellis Street and Chestnut Street on
the east from Business Professional (BP), Commercial Mixed Use (CMU), Downtown
Recreation (DR), Floodway, GC, High Density Residential (HDR), Medium Density Residential
(MDR), Open Space (OS), Public lnstitutional (P/l), and Residential Mixed Use (RMU) to
Specific Plan (SP); and,
Whereas, GPA No. 2018-02 also amends the Appendix A of the General Plan (GP) to add a
summary of the Downtown Elsinore Specific Plan; and,
Whereas, Government Code Section 65358 empowers the legislative body to amend all or part
of an adopted GP if to do so would be in the public interest and so long as no mandatory
element of the GP is amended more frequently than four (4) times during any calendar year;
and,
Whereas, GPA 2018-02 is part of the City's First (1st) Cycle amendments to the GP Land Use
Map for the 2018 calendar year; and,
Whereas, pursuant to Government Code Section 65354 the Planning Commission
(Commission) of the City of Lake Elsinore (City) has been delegated with the responsibility of
reviewing and making recommendations to the City Council (Council) regarding GPA; and,
Whereas, on September 4, 2018, at a duly noticed Public Hearing the Commission has
considered the evidence presented by the Community Development Department and other
interested parties with respect to this item.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE
DOES HEREBY RESOLVE, DETERMINE AND RECOMMEND TO THE CITY COUNCIL AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 'l: The Commission has reviewed and analyzed proposed GPA No. 2018-02 pursuant
to the California Planning and Zoning Laws (Cal. Gov. Code Sec 65000 et. seq.), the GP and
the LEMC and finds that the proposed GPA is consistent with the requirements of California
Planning and Zoning Law and with the goals and policies of the GP and the LEMC.
Section 2: That in accordance with California Planning and Zoning Law, and LEMC, the
Commission makes the following findings for the approval of GPA No. 2018-02:
1. The proposed GPA, will not be a) detrimental to the health, safety, comfort or general
welfare of the persons residing or working within the neighborhood of the proposed
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amendment or within the City, or b) injurious to the property or improvements in the
neighborhood or within the City.
a. The proposed GPA has been analyzed relative to its potential to have detimental
effects; land use designations and regulations have been imposed to ensure that the
health, safety and welfare of affected residents will be protected.
b. The exclusion of existing busness professional uses along Sping Street from the
boundaries of the Downtown Elsinore Specific Plan will ensure that a// busrness
professional uses along Spring Street will be treated faidy and equitably.
c. The exclusion of the commercial properA abng Main Street between lnterstate 15 and
Flint Street from the boundaies of the Downtown Elsinore Specific Plan will altow that
propefty to develop in accordance with the GC GP designation and ensure adequate
buffering and screening of any residential uses within the area.
2. The proposed GPA would establish a land use density, intensity and usage more in
character with the subject property's location, access and constraints.
a. The subject propefties are adjacent to lnterstate 15 and its southbound off-ramp and
southbound on-ramp. As such, busrhesses and services that attract freeway motorists
are the highest and best use of propefiies with quick access from the freeway. Similarly,
those propefties adjacent to but with no quick access from the freeway are conducive to
manufacturing uses with liftle or no sensitive noise or odor receptors.
b. Propefties across Spnng Street from the proposed BP designation have simitar
designations and uses.
c. The Specific Plan land use designation identifies that area that will be governed by the
Downtown Elsinore Specific Plan that rs responsrve to the unique location and
development potential of the downtown area.
3. ln accordance with the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEOA),
impacts have been reduced to a less than significant level, or in the case where impacts
remain, a statement of overriding considerations must be adopted to justify the merits of
project implementation.
a. The DESP retains the overall development potential or recommends /ess rnlense uses
as the existing 201 1 DMP. ln 2011 , the Council of the City ceftified the Program
Environmental lmpact Repoft (PEIR) (SCH No. 2005121019) and adopted the City's
2011 General Plan Update, 200&2014 Housing Element, Climate Action Plan, and the
2011 Downtown Master Plan (DMP). The PEIR analyzed the scope and nature of
development proposed to meet the goals of downtown development as set out in the
DMP along with identifying rneasures to mitigate, to the extent feasible, the significant
adverse project and cumulative impacts associated with downtown development under
the DMP.
b. ln addition to serving as the environmental document for the approval of the 2011 GP
Update, Housing Element, Climate Action Plan, and DMP, the PEIR was intended by the
City to be the basis for compliance with CEQA for future discretionary actions. Under
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CEQA guidelines for using program ElRs with tater activities, if a proposed tater activity
involves no new or substantially more severe signficant effects and no new mitigation
rneasures would be required, a program EIR is deemed to have adequately analyzed the
later activw for CEQA ptirposes and no fufther review under CEeA is required. '
c. The Downtown Elsinore Specific Plan (DESp) represents a reimagining of the DMp
rather than a substantial revision. The PEIR included an analysis of the environmentat
effects and sets out mitigation measures needed to minimize or etiminate any identified
impacts related to downtown development under the DMp. The overall development
potential within the boundaies of the original DMP remains substantiatly unchanged
under the DESP such that there are no new or substantially more severe significant
effects and no new mitigation measures are necessary. Accordingly, pElR serves as fhe
required environmental documentation for the DESP, the GpA and Zone Change.
section 3: Based upon the evidence presented, both written and testimonial, and the above
findings, the commission hereby recommends approval of GpA No. 2o1B-02 and incorporating
the following amendments into the GP as shown on the attached Exhibits I and 2.
b
ln accordance with Exhibit 1; change the GP Land Use Map designation from GWC to
Business Professional (BP) for Assessor's Parcel Nos. 377 -242-003 through -007, -012,
-013, -023,028 and -029; and,
ln accordance with Exhibit 1; change the GP Land Use Map designation from GWC to
GC for APNs. 377-242-014 through -016, -018, -020 through -022, and -030; and 377-
243-001 through -01 1 , -013, -0'15 through -019; and,
c. ln accordance with Exhibit 1; change the GP Land Use Map designation from Business
Professional (BP), Commercial Mixed Use (CMU), Downtown Recreation (DR),
Floodway (F), ceneral Commercial (GC), High Density Residentiat (HDR), Medium
Density Residential (MDR), Open Space (OS), Public lnstitutionat (P/l), and Residential
Mixed Use (RMU) to Specific Plan (SP) for properties located from Flint Street along its
northern edge, southwesterly to the edge of the Lake and generally bounded by Riley
Street and the Lake Elsinore Outlet Channel on the west and Ellis Street and Chestnut
Street on the east; and,
d. Add a summary of the Downtown Elsinore Specific Plan to Appendix A of the Gp, as
shown in the attached Exhibit 2
Section 4: This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
Passed and Approved this 4th day of September, 2018, by the following vote:
Ross, Chairman
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss.
CITY OF LAKE ELSINORE )
l, Justin Kirk, Assistant Community Development Director of the City of Lake Elsinore,California,
do hereby certify that Resolution No. 2018-70 was adopted by the Planning Commission of the
City of Lake Elsinore, California, at the Regular meeting of September 4,2018' and that the
same was adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner's Gray, Armit and
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
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