Recommendation to recommend that the City Council approve and certify an Addendum (EIRA-01-23) to the Program Environmental Impact Report prepared for the General Plan LUE Update and Urban Design Element (PEIR) (EIR 03-16) relating to the implementation of the General Plan Land Use Element through an amendment to Title 22 and the rezoning of designated Neighborhood Serving Corridors or Centers Low (NSC-L) PlaceType in West Long Beach on Willow Street, west of the 710 freeway to the City terminus; and Santa Fe Avenue, between Pacific Coast Highway on the south and Wardlow Road on the north ("the Project"), in accordance with the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA" Section 15164 of the CEQA guidelines and making certain findings and determinations that the adopted Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program mitigates, to the extent reasonably feasible, impacts associated with the implementation of the Neighborhood Serving Corridors or Centers Low (NSC-L) Place Types as described above, in accordance with those measures set forth in the General Plan LUE Update and Urban Design Element EIR and that no new or different mitigation measures are required. And recommend that the City Council adopt an Ordinance amending Title 22 of the Municipal Code to establish a new zoning district to implement the Long Beach General Plan Land Use Element Update adopted in 2019; and, adopt an Ordinance to implement City-initiated rezoning of areas that are designated by the 2019 General Plan Land Use Element Update as the Neighborhood Serving Corridors or Centers Low (NSC-L) Place Type on Willow Street, west of the 710 freeway to the City Terminus; and Santa Fe Avenue, between Pacific Coast Highway on the south and Wardlow Road on the north, to implement the NSC-L PlaceType in West Long Beach and to end the existing moratorium on new development along said corridors. (Citywide)

Committee

Planning Commission

Introduced

March 31, 2023

On agenda

April 20, 2023

Passed

April 20, 2023