HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 98-71 RESOLUTION NO. 9 8-71
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HUNTINGTON BEACH APPROVING ENVIRONMENTAL
FINDINGS
WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Huntington Beach(the "Agency")
has certified the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Merged Redevelopment Project of
the City of Huntington Beach and the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Disposition and
Development Agreement dated as of August 15, 1988 between the Agency and ROBERT L.
MAYER, as Trustee of the Robert L. Mayer Trust of 1982 (the "DDA"); and
On July 18, 1983, by Council Resolution No. 5284, the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach (the "City Council" certified the Final Environmental Impact Report 82-2 for
the Downtown Specific Plan, and on August 15, 1988,the City Council certified the
Supplemental Environmental Innpact Report No. 82-2 for the "Development Agreement By and
Between the City of Huntington Beach and Robert L. Mayer, as Trustee of the Robert L. Mayer
Trust of 1982, dated June 22, 1982, as Amended," adopted by the City Council of the City on
October 3, 1988, by Ordinance No. 2962 (the "Development Agreement"), and all development
contemplated thereunder; and
The City Council has approved an Addendum to said Final Environmental Impact
Reports and Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (the three final Environmental Impact
Reports, Supplemental Environmental Impact Report, and the Addendum are referred to
collectively herein as the "EIR"); and
The Agency and MAYER FINANCIAL, LTD., a California limited partnership
("Developer"), assignee of certain interests of ROBERT L. MAYER, as Trustee of the Robert L.
Mayer Trust of 1982 under the DDA, have conducted negotiations for an Amended and Restated
Disposition and Development Agreement(the "Amended and Restated DDA") which provides
for the construction of hotel and residential improvements on certain real property referred to in
the Amended and Restated DDA and herein as the "Site"; and
The City and Developer and THE WATERFRONT HOTEL, LLC, a California limited
liability company, assignees of certain interests of ROBERT L. MAYER, as Trustee of the
Robert L. Mayer Trust of 1982 under the Development Agreement, have conducted negotiations
for an amended and Restated Development Agreement (the "Amended and Restated
Development Agreement") which vests certain criteria for the construction and operation of the
hotel and residential improvements on the Site, and Developer has submitted applications for
coastal development permits and conditional use permits to effect such improvements (the
"Permits");
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The project described in the EIR(the "Project") includes the construction of hotel and
residential improvements on the Site; and
The City Council has reviewed the EIR,the proposed Amended and Restated DDA,the
proposed Amended and Restated Development Agreement, the proposed Permits, and other
reports and information relevant to the findings made herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON
BEACH DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Neither the approval nor the implementation of the proposed Amended
and Restated DDA, THE PROPOSED Amended and Restated Development Agreement, or the
proposed Permits will cause a substantial change in the Project.
SECTION 2. No substantial changes in the circumstances under which the Project is
undertaken have occurred since the time that the EIR was certified as complete.
SECTION 3. Neither the approval nor the implementation of the Amended and Restated
DDA, the Amended and Restated Development Agreement, or the Permits will have a significant
effect on the environment which is new or substantially more severe than the significant effects
identified in the EIR.
SECTION 4. No major revision of the EIR is required.
SECTION 5. No new information of substantial importance to the Project has become
available since the time that the EIR was certified as complete that shows that the Project as
amended by the Amended and Restated DDA,the Amended and Restated Development
Agreement, and the Permits will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the EIR, or
that significant effects previously examined will be substantially more severe than shown in the
EIR, or that mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would be
feasible, or that mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably different from those
analyzed in the EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the
environment but have not been adopted.
SECTION b. No subsequent Environmental Impact Report or Supplement to the
previously certified EIR is necessary or required in connection with the approval, execution and
implementation of the proposed Amended and Restated DDA,the proposed Amended and
Restated Development Agreement, or the proposed Permits.
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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 14th day of September , 1998.
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Mayor
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Kane, Ballmer& Berkman
Special Counsel
REVIEWED AND APPROVED: INITIATED AND APPROVED:
City Affninistrator Director of Eco c Development
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss:
CITY OF HiUNTINGTON BEACH )
I,CONNIE BROCKWAY,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 at least a majority of all the members of said. City Council
at a regular meeting thereof held on the 14th day of October, 1998 by the following
vote:
AYES: Harman, Green, Dettloff, Bauer
NOES: None
ABSENT: Julien, Sullivan, Garofalo
City Clerk and ex-officio derk of the
City Council of the City of Huntington
Beach, California