HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 4955 RESOLUTION N0. 4955
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HUNTINGTON BEACH AUTHORIZING APPLICATION FOR A
COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT GRANT, PHASE III OF THE
LOCAL COASTAL PROGRAM, FROM THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL
COMMISSION TO IMPLEMENT THE CALIFORNIA COASTAL ACT
OF 1976 .
WHEREAS , the City of Huntington Beach ("City' recognizes the
problems and issues identified in the attached application for a
Coastal Zone Management Grant and desires to provide for a planning
study contributing to improved coastal planning, decision making
and management capability related to community development and
growth; and
The City has developed an application package to deal with
these development problems and issues ; and the California Coastal
Commission, under authority of the California Public Resources
Code Section 30340 . 5 et seq. , may provide planning and financial
assistance for such a program,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the
City of Huntington Beach hereby requests the California Coastal
Commission to provide planning and financial assistance under
authority of the California Public Resources Code, not to exceed
the amount of One Hundred Thirty One Thou and Six Hunt9rerl nol�rs.
Such planning assistance is more particularly described in the
project description attached hereto and made a part of this
resolution as if fully set forth herein.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Administrator of the
City of Huntington Beach be , and is hereby authorized and empower-
ed to execute on behalf of the City all necessary applications ,
contracts and agreements , and any amendments thereto , which
implement and carry out the purposes specified in this resolu\on.
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WORK PROGRAM
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
LOCAL COASTAL PROGRAM
PHASE III: IMPLEMENTATION
JANUARY, 1981
1.0 ADMINISTRATION
Discussion:
In implementing the LCP, the administrative tasks performed in Phase II must
be continued. These necessary functions include: 1) coordination of planning
activities; 2) management of the budget; 3) scheduling and coordinating tasks
and staff; and 4) supervision of staff and review of products. These tasks
must continue to be performed in a timely and effective manner in order for
the City to achieve its overall coastal goals.
The LCP program must also interface with the public, other City departments
and City officials. The administrative function includes assisting individuals
and organizations requesting information or desiring to give input to the LCP
process. It is important for the smooth functioning of the implementation
effort to work with the City's finance, administrative and legal divisions. The
LCP administrative staff person must also assist in responding to requests
from Planning Commission and City Council members. Duties of this nature
are frequently disruptive to the continuity of the work program if not
delegated as a specific task in the overall plan.
Objectives:
- Ensure the adequate administration of the budget, staff and tasks during
the implementation phase of the LCP.
- Ensure adequate input from other City departments to facilitate the
progress of the implementation tasks.
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Respond to public inquiries and take citizen input.
Attend to requests by City officials.
Tasks:
(a) Coordinate planning activities.
(b) Manage the budget.
(c) Schedule and coordinate staff and tasks.
(d) Supervise staff and review products.
(e) Coordinate with finance, administration and legal departments.
(f) Answer calls and correspondence from the public.
(g) Disseminate information among LCP staff.
(h) Perform tasks at the request of City officials.
Products:
Quarterly progress reports on the status of Phase III LCP tasks.
Cost: STAFF RATE TIME TOTAL
Asst. 500/wk 16 wks $8000
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2.0 OPEN SPACE IRECREATIONORDINANCE
Discussion: The Coastal Act emphasizes that public recreation opportunities
in t cue oastal zone should be preserved and, where possible, increased. The
Huntington Beach coastal zone already affords excellent recreational
opportunities. An important means by which the City will preserve these
opportunities is through a new land use designation, 'open space-recreation,"
on the Coastal Land Use Map. In order to implement this new designation, the
City must develop a new zoning district and accompanying zoning ordinance.
Objectives:
- Preserve existing public recreation opportunities in the coastal zone, and
increase such opportunities by planning for recreation-oriented coastal
projects and open space.
Tasks:
Develop an implementing ordinance for the new 'open space-recreation"
designation in the Coastal Land Use Plan.
(a) Develop the ordinance for this designation.
(b) Supervise legal and administrative review.
(c) Amend existing municipal code, land use maps, zoning district maps, and
General Plan to reflect the new designation.
Products:
The text of an implementing ordinance for an open space/recreation district.
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Cost: STAFF RATE TIME TOTAL
Asst. 500/wk 8 wks $4000
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3.0 VISITOR SERVING COMMERCIAL ORDINANCE
Discussion:
An important goal in the Coastal Act is the provision of adequate visitor
serving facilities in the coastal zone to enhance public opportunities for
coastal recreation. To achieve this goal in the Huntington Beach LCP, the
City has created a new land use designation in its Coastal Land Use Plan for
commercial facilities which meet the needs of tourists and other visitors to
the coast. The application of this "visitor commercial" designation to
appropriate locations in the coastal zone encourages the provision of visitor
serving facilities. The City needs to develop a visitor commercial zoning
ordinance and zoning districts to implement this designation.
Objectives:
- Provide areas for adequate visitor serving facilities in the City's coastal
zone.
Tasks:
Develop an implementing ordinance for the new visitor serving commercial
designation in the Coastal Land Use Plan.
(a) Develop the ordinance for this designation.
(b) Supervise legal and administrative review.
(c) Amend existing Municipal Code, land use maps, zoning district maps and
General Plan to reflect the new designation.
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Products:
The text of an implementing ordinance for office-residential.
Cost: STAFF RATE TIME TOTAL
Asst. 500/wk 8 wks $4000
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4.0 OFFICE-RESIDENTIAL ORDINANCE
Discussion:
The office-residential ordinance will implement a mixed use designation. Its
purpose will be to allow medium to high density apartments and condominiums
to co-exist with professional office space, either by a vertical mix within the
same building or a general mix within an area. Limited ancillary retail
commercial and service uses would be conditionally allowed. The intent of the
ordinance is to provide a resident population base to support the business uses
in order to make downtown visitor serving and commercial development
economically viable. Having residential populations close to both business and
commercial enterprises will also keep commuting to a minimum and reduce
traffic and air pollution.
Objectives:
- Provide for development of residential uses in close approximation to
professional office space.
Tasks:
Develop an implementing ordinance for the new office-residential designation
in the Coastal Land Use Plan.
(a) Develop the ordinance for this designation.
(b) Supervise legal and administrative review.
(c) Amend existing Municipal Code, land use maps, zoning district maps and
General Plan to reflect the new designation.
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Products:
The text of an implementing ordinance for "visitor commercial".
Cost: TASK STAFF RATE TIME TOTAL
Visitor serving Asst. 500/wk 8 wks $4000
commercial ordinance
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5.0 COASTAL ZONE ORDINANCE
Discussion:
Many of the policies developed in the Coastal Element will be implemented
through an overlay for parcels of land in the coastal zone. This overlay will
consist of a zoning district suffix attached to all base zones for property
within the coastal zone. The suffix will serve as notice that the parcel is
subject to policies and requirements contained in the Coastal Land Use Plan.
The coastal zone ordinance will spell out these requirements in detail, thereby
insuring that the intent of the Coastal Act is fulfilled by ordinance.
The diversity and wide range of issues included in the Coastal Element policies
means that the coastal zone ordinance will be complex. Careful attention
must be paid to integrating the ordinance with other zoning districts in the
coastal zone and insuring that all important policy areas of the element are
adequately covered. The ordinance must be able to stand as the legal
embodiment of much of the City's Coastal Plan.
Objectives:
- Implement coastal act policies for property lying within the coastal zone.
Tasks:
(a) Develop the ordinance for the coastal zone suffix.
(b) Supervise legal and administrative review.
(c) Amend existing Municipal Code, land use maps, zoning district maps and
General Plan to reflect the new designation.
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Products:
The text of an implementing ordinance for the coastal zone suffix.
Cost: STAFF RATE TIME TOTAL
Asst. 500/wk 16 wks $8000
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6.0 INCLUSIONARY ZONING ORDINANCE
Discussion:
The Coastal Act requires that housing opportunities for persons of low and
moderate income shall be protected, encouraged, and where feasible provided.
The City's Coastal Element requires that housing which is affordable to low
and moderate income households be provided in all new projects of twenty
units or more. The inclusionary zoning ordinance will implement this policy.
The intent of the ordinance is to increase the City's stock of affordable
housing where feasible within the coastal zone.
Objectives:
- Provide increased housing opportunity for low and moderate income
households.
Tasks:
Develop an implementing ordinance for providing low and moderate income
housing in projects of twenty or more residential residential units for sale to
the pub I i c.
(a) Develop the ordinance.
(b) Supervise legal and administrative review.
(c) Amend existing Municipal Code and General Plan to conform with the
new ordinance.
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Products:
The text of an implementing ordinance.
Cost: STAFF RATE TIME TOTAL
Asst. 500/wk 8 wks $4000
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7.0 DOWNTOWN SPECIFIC PLANS
The Coastal Element discusses how the area of the City's coastal zone between
Goldenwest Street and Beach Boulevard presents especially numerous and
complex problems for achieving coastal planning goals. These problems
include the very small lots, disparate ownership, unusual mix of uses, economic
decline, visual deterioration, the pending "recycling" because of earthquake
standards and other reasons, the community controversy regarding the
appropriate character of the area, and others. LCP implementation strategies
must address these numerous problems.
This area is the most likely to "recycle" to new uses or combinations of uses.
This "recycling" may be an important vehicle for achieving both State-wide
goals for the coastal zone as related to the Coastal Act, as well as goals of the
local community for improving and revitalizing this area.
Implementation of the Coastal Element and the Coastal Land Use Plan for this
area can be best achieved through specific plans. As the Office of Planning
and Research "Draft General Plan Guidelines" states:
Because it is a regulatory tool, rather than simply a plan, a specific plan can
be used in lieu of zoning for an area. Specific plans are most commonly used
in areas of transition, such as on the developing periphery of urban areas and in
central city areas designated for rehabilitation or redevelopment. Their main
advantages are that they particularize the policies and programs of the general
plan and coordinate public and private efforts in the development of an area.
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This area is facing a dramatic transition period. Appropriate revitalization
will require substantial cooperation between public and private parties to
resolve parking and circulation problems, to preserve open space, to provide
visual amenities, and to achieve acceptable solutions to other problems in the
area. A specific plan is considered the most efficient way to implement the
Coastal Element and thus achieve the objectives of both the Coastal Act and
the local community.
Objective:
Achieve efficient implementation of the Coastal Element for the area between
Goldenwest and Beach to ensure that Coastal Act policies regarding the
protection of visual amenities and coastal recreational opportunities and the
provision of adequate visitor-serving facilities and low and moderate income
housing opportunities are reflected in new development there.
Task:
Develop specific plans for the coastal areas between Goldenwest and Sixth
Streets, between Sixth and Lake Streets, and between Lake Street and Beach
Boulevard. Such plans must include all detailed regulations, conditions,
programs and proposed legislation regarding:
- The location of and standards for land uses and facilities.
- Location of and standards for streets, roads and other transportation
facilities.
- Density standards and building intensities and measures to provide
adequate supporting services.
- Standards for conservation and u of natural resource use I s.
- Provisions to implement open space requirements and visual resources
considerations.
- Other appropriate measures to implement the Coastal Element
Products:
Specific plans for the coastal zone between Goldenwest and Sixth, Sixth and
Lake, and Lake and Beach.
Cost:
TASK STAFF RATE TIME TOTAL
7-a Goldenwest to Asst. 500/wk 24 wks $12000
Sixth
7-b Sixth to Lake 48 wks $24000
7-c Lake to Beach 24 wks $12000
TOTAL 96 wks 5 8W
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8.0 REVIEW OF EXISTING ORDINANCES FOR OTHER COASTAL PLAN
DESIGNATIONS
Discussion:
The Coastal Land Use Plan employs eight land use designations which are the
same as those in the existing General Plan. There are low density, medium
density, and high density residential; general commercial; general industrial;
public, quasi-public, and institutional; resource production; and planning
reserve. The existing zoning ordinances, however, may need to be revised in
order to implement the intent of coastal policies regarding these land uses.
Thus, in Phase III, the City must review its existing ordinances to ensure they
reflect the intent of these land use designations as employed in the Coastal
Element. (Review of the resource production designation will be carried out
under a separate grant.)
Objective:
- Ensure that the ordinances used to implement these important
designations in the Coastal Land Use Plan accurately reflect the intent
of the Coastal Element.
Tasks:
Review the existing ordinance for the following categories used in the
Coastal Land Use Plan:
low density residential
medium density residential
general commerical
general industrial
public, quasi-public and institutional
planning reserve
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Develop amendments to these ordinances where necessary.
(a) Develop text of such amendments.
(b) Supervise legal and administrative review.
(c) Amend existing Municipal Code, land use map, zoning district map and
General Plan as necessary.
Products:
Report on adequacy of existing ordinances; amendments to ordinances as
necessary.
Costs: TASK STAFF RATE TIME TOTAL
Review of existing Asst. 500/wk 8 wks $4000
ordinances; as
necessary amendments
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9.0 PUBLIC HEARINGS AND ADOPTION OF ORDINANCES
Discussion:
All of the ordinances developed in Phase III must be presented to the Planning
Commission and City Council for public hearings, approval, and adoption
before they are certified by the Coastal Commission. Because the ordinance
package will be extensive, three public hearings before each body are
envisioned in order to accommodate all of the expected citizen input. During
this process, staff time is required for disseminating comments received to the
public bodies, making requested changes in the ordinances before approval or
adoption and preparing necessary recommendations, resolutions and
transmittal documents. Often the smooth operation of these staff functions
can speed the hearing and adoption process.
Objectives:
Expedite the hearing, approval and adoption process of the coastal land use
ordinance package.
Tasks:
(a) Prepare transmittal documents to Planning Commission and City Council.
(b) See that background information is available to the public at hearings.
(c) Distribute comments to public bodies.
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(d) Revise texts as appropriate.
(e) Prepare necessary staff reports and recommendations.
Products:
Ordinances as adopted by the City Council.
Cost: STAFF RATE TIME TOTAL
Asst. 500/wk 12 wks $6000
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10.0 REQUEST AND MAPPING OF AREAS OF CATEGORICAL EXCLUSION
Discussion:
When the land use ordinances are presented to the Coastal Commission for
certification, the City may request categorical exclusions from the coastal
permit process for development of a particular type within a specified
geographic area. Categorical exclusions can be granted if the proposed
development will be adequately regulated by existing ordinances to comply
with the Coastal Element. It will be vital to the efficient operation of the
permitting system that categorical exclusions be utilized wherever they are
appropriate. Therefore, preparation of requests for categorical exclusions and
mapping of the areas to be included in the exclusions is an important element
in the transition to City permitting.
Objectives:
Obtain categorical exclusions from the coastal permit process for development
which is adequately controlled by existing ordinances.
Tasks:
(a) Determine types of development and areas for exclusion.
(b) Prepare necessary requests for categorical exclusion.
(c) Prepare maps for areas of categorical exclusions.
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Products:
Categorical exclusion requests and maps.
Cost: STAFF RATE TIME TOTAL
Asst. 500/wk 4 wks $2000
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SUMMARY OF PLANNING STAFF TIME FOR PHASE III WORK PROGRAM
STAFF
TASK NUMBER - DESCRIPTION TIME COST
1.0 Administration 16 $8,000
2.0 Open space-recreation ordinance 8 $4,000
3.0 Visitor serving commercial ordinance 8 $4,000
4.0 Office-residential ordinance 8 $4,000
5.0 Coastal zone ordinance 16 $8,000
6.0 Inclusionary zoning ordinance 8 $4,000
7.0 Downtown specific plans 96 $48,000
7-a Goldenwest to Sixth (24) ($12,000)
7-b Sixth to Lake (48) ($24,000)
7-c Lake to Beach (24) ($12,000)
8.0 Review existing ordinances 8 $4,000
9.0 Public hearings and adoption 12 $6,000
10.0 Prepare and map categorical exclusions 4 $2,000
TOTAL 184 $92,000
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ESTIMATED BUDGET FOR PHASE_ III*
Salaries (includes benefits)
Planning $92,000
Clerical/Drafting $ 10,000
Subtotal ($102,000)
Operating expenses 9,200
Subtotal (9,200)
Indirect overhead at 20 percent of salaries ($20,400)
TOTAL $131,600
* It should be noted that this budget does not include the tasks for which interim
funding was received by the City. These tasks were 1) Review of the Permit Process
(2 weeks staff time) and 2) Development of a Wildlife Conservation Ordinance (8
weeks staff time) plus 3) Administration (I week staff time). The total grant
amount for these interim tasks was $7,250.
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CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
LOCAL COASTAL PROGRAM
PHASE III: IMPLEMENTATION
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION AND SCHEDULE
Task Product Due Date
1.0 Progress Reports Quarterly
2.0 Text of Open Space-Recreation Ordinance December 1981
3.0 Text of Visitor Serving Commercial December 1981
Ordinance
4.0 Text of Office-Residential Ordinance December 1981
5.0 Text of Coastal Zone Ordinance December 1981
6.0 Text of Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance December 1981
7-a Specific Plan for Goldenwest to Sixth December 1981
7-b Specific Plan for Sixth to Lake December 1981
7-c Specific Plan for Lake to Beach December 1981
8.0 Report on Ordinance Adequacy; December 1981
Necessary Amendments
9.0 Adopted Ordinances April 1981
10.0 Categorical Exclusion Requests and April 1981
and Maps
ESTIMATED PHASE III SCHEDULE
1981 1982
TASK M A M J J A S O N D J F M A
1.0 Administration 16 staff weeks Ongoing
2.0 Open Space-Recreation Ordinance 8 staff weeks
3.0 Visitor Serving-Commercial Ordinance 8 staff weeks
4.0 Office-Residential Ordinance 8 staff weeks
5.0 Coastal Zone Ordinance 16 staff weeks
6.0 Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance 8 staff weeks
7-a. Specific Plan - Goldenwest to 6th 24 staff weeks
7-b. Specific Plan - 6th to Lake 48 staff weeks 4X
7-c. Specific Plan - Lake to Beach 24 staff weeks
8.0 Review Existing Ordinances 8 staff weeks
9.0 Public Hearings and Adoption 12 staff weeks
10.0 Prepare and Map Categorical Exclusions 4 staff weeks
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 5th
day of January 1981 .
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Mayor
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Clerk /
City Attorney
REVIEWED AND APPROVED :
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City Administra r
INITIATED AND APPROVED AS TO
CONTENT :
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Res. No. 4955
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, ALICIA M. WENTWORTH, the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of
members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven;
that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the affirmative
vote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council
at a regular meeting thereof held on the 5th day
of January 19 81 by the following voter
AYES: Councilmen:
Pattinson, Finley, Bailey, MacAllister, Mandic, Kelly
NOES: Councilmen:
-_ None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
Thomas
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City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California