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Planning Commission Meeting Update
February 24, 2010 Wednesday
7:00 p.m.
CALL TO ORDER/PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL:
Commissioners Michael Boswell, Michael Draze, Eric Meyer, Airlin
Singewald, Mary Whittlesey, Vice-Chairperson Michael Multari,
Chair Charles Stevenson was absent.
ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA:
Agenda was accepted.
MINUTES:
Minutes of February 10, 2010, were approved as amended.
PUBLIC COMMENT:
None
PUBLIC HEARINGS:
1. 1119,
1123 – 1127, & 1129 – 1137 Garden Street and 712, 720, 748, 736,
722, & 728 Marsh Street.
ER 124-06: Consideration of Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR),
Use Permit, and Vesting Tentative Tract Map; C-D-H zone; Garden
Street SLO Partners, LP, applicant. (Continued from January
27, 2010, meeting) (Tyler Corey)
Tyler Corey, Associate Planner,
presented the staff report recommending approval of the Final EIR,
Use Permit and Vesting Tentative Tract Map for the project. The
Commission unanimously voted to adopt staff’s recommendations to
certify the Final EIR, approve the Reduced Development
(environmentally superior) and Project without Public Parking
Alternatives as the required project, approve the Use Permit to
allow a building height of 74 feet, and approve a Vesting Tentative
Tract Map for an airspace subdivision. The Commission made several
changes to the recommended mitigation measures in the EIR relative
to noise, upper floor building setbacks, Bubblegum Alley, parking
requirements and energy efficiency. The Commission also made a
motion to provide direction to the ARC on revisiting the Garden
Street Improvement Plan to evaluate equitable benefits to all
businesses owners with particular attention to access and parking,
and to promote the creation of a “hero” building with superior
design.
RECOMMENDATION:
a.
Adopt
Resolution A that recommends the City Council certify the Final EIR
with findings of overriding considerations relative to aesthetics
and visual resources, air quality, cultural resources, short-term
construction noise, and cumulative impacts, and recommending that
the Reduced Development (environmentally superior) and Project
without Public Parking Alternatives is the preferred project.
b.
Adopt
Resolution B that recommends the City Council approve a modified use
permit and vesting tentative tract map, based on findings and
subject to conditions and code requirements.
ACTION:
Moved by Draze/Whittlesey to adopt Resolution A that
recommends the City Council certify the Final EIR with findings of
overriding considerations relative to aesthetics and visual
resources, air quality, cultural resources, short-term construction
noise, and cumulative impacts, and recommending that the Reduced
Development (environmentally superior) and Project without Public
Parking Alternatives is the preferred project, with the following
amendments: 1) Mitigation Measure NO-3c is required for applicable
common outdoor residential activity areas and is optional for
applicable private outdoor residential activity areas; (2) Minor
variations to the Reduced Development Alternative setback
requirement of 15 feet above the 2nd floor level along
Marsh and Broad Streets should be considered to achieve
architectural benefits, to the approval of the ARC; (3) Mitigation
Measure LU-1 shall include Bubblegum Alley with specific attention
to maintaining views through the project site from Higuera to Marsh;
(4) The project’s parking requirement shall be based on City Zoning
Regulations; and (5) Mitigation Measure EN-2c requires the project
be constructed to LEED Silver standards. Mitigation Measure AQ-3g
is duplicative, and shall not require the project’s energy
efficiency rating also exceeds Title 24 by 15% (6:0).
ACTION:
Moved by Boswell/Draze to adopt Resolution B
that recommends the City Council approve a modified use permit and
vesting tentative tract map, based on findings and subject to
conditions and code requirements (6:0).
ACTION:
Moved by Boswell/Draze to direct the ARC to: (1) Revisit the Garden
Street Improvement Plan to evaluate equitable benefits for all
business owners with particular attention to access and parking; and
(2) Promote the creation of a “hero” building with superior design,
such as towers, arcades, and projections (6:0).
COMMENT AND DISCUSSION:
2.
Staff
a. Agenda
Forecast –
Deputy Director Davidson provided the forecast.
3.
Commission
ADJOURNMENT:
Meeting adjourned at 9:50 p.m.
Any writings or
documents provided to a majority of the Planning Commission
regarding any item on this agenda will be made available for public
inspection in the Community Development, 919 Palm Street, during
normal business hours.
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