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A G E N D A
SPECIAL MEETING OF
THE
PLANNING COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA
Founded 1875
"Populus felix
in urbe felici"
WEDNESDAY, January
27, 2010 CITY
COUNCIL CHAMBERS
7:00 P.M. ROOM
213, CITY HALL
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1. CALL TO
ORDER
2. PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE
3. ROLL CALL
4. PLANNING
DIRECTOR'S REPORT:
Information
concerning future Planning Commission and City Council Agendas. Update on recent City Council action on
appeals, ordinances, development projects, and planning policy studies. Information on recent Architectural Review Board and Landmarks
Commission actions. Update on
project status and related planning matters.
5. DISCUSSION:
5-A. Development Agreement
Float-Up for 1681 Twenty-Sixth Street (Papermate
Site).
Discuss the applicant’s Development
Agreement proposal for a mixed-use project concept consisting of: creative arts
office space; ground floor neighborhood-serving commercial space and a mixture
of affordable, workforce, and market rate housing totaling up to 40% of the
project’s total floor area; ground-floor public open space intended for use as
a community gathering and cultural arts venue; street improvements to include:
new north-south street that bisects the site and provides vehicular and bicycle
access; new east-west street primarily for service access that runs along the
site’s northern property line; north-south pedestrian access from Olympic
Boulevard through the site; and a subterranean parking garage. [Planner: Jing
Yeo, AICP] APPLICANT / PROPERTY OWNER:
Hines.
Supplemental Staff Report
Attachment B – Community Meeting Summary
Attachment C – Project Concept
6. ADJOURNMENT
No
other business will be conducted at this Special Meeting
Please
note that this agenda is subject to change up to 72 hours prior to the
scheduled meeting. We encourage you to check the agenda 72 hours prior to the
meeting.
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Santa
Monica Blue Bus Lines #2, #3 and #8 serve City Hall. Parking is available in
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CITY
PLANNING COMMISSION
Jay
P. Johnson, Commissioner
Hank
Koning, FAIA, Chairperson
Gerda
Newbold, Commissioner
Jason
Parry, Commissioner
Gwynne
Pugh, AIA, ASCE, Commissioner
Jim
Ries, Chairperson Pro Tempore
Ted
Winterer, Commissioner
Kevin
McKeown, City Council Liaison
Pam
O’Connor, City Council Liaison
Eileen
Fogarty, Director of Planning & Community Development
Amanda
Schachter, City Planning Manager
Francie
Stefan, Community & Strategic Planning Manager
Barry
Rosenbaum, Senior Land Use Attorney
Kyle
Ferstead, Commission Secretary
AGENDA
POLICIES
The
Planning Commission considers a range of requests for development permits,
appeals, and planning policy matters, and conducts public hearings on many of
its agenda items. Due to the number, complexity and public interest associated
with many agenda items, meetings of the Commission are generally lengthy. The
Commission makes every effort to proceed as expeditiously as possible; your
patience and understanding is appreciated.
PUBLIC
HEARING PROCEDURES on each public hearing item
include ex parte communication disclosure by the Commissioners;
presentation of a staff report; Commission questions of staff; a fifteen (15)
minute presentation by the project applicant or applicant’s representative or
team, if any; Commission questions of the applicant; three (3) minutes for each
member of the public wishing to speak to the item; three (3) minutes for
project applicant to respond to the public or clarify issues raised by the
public; Commission deliberations and decision. For an appeal, the appellant, if
not also the applicant, has fifteen (15) minutes to address the Commission
prior to the applicant speaking and three (3) minutes to respond to public
comment.
SPECIAL
TIME LIMITATIONS. The Commission may limit the
time of individual speakers or the total time on a particular issue. If there
are more than seven (7) speakers requesting to speak on an agenda item, or if twenty (20) or more persons have requested
to speak on any combination of items, the project applicant or appellant on any
agenda item shall be limited to ten (10) minutes initially and three (3)
minutes in rebuttal. Members of the public are permitted three (3) minutes to
address the Commission except as follows: if a member of the public requests to
speak on more than one agenda item, the time will be three (3) minutes for the
first item and two (2) minutes for any other item unless the Commission grants
by a majority vote additional time.
REQUESTS
TO SPEAK on an agenda item must be submitted
on a speaker's request form (“chit”) and submit it to the Commission secretary.
All requests to address the Commission on public hearing items must be
submitted prior to the Commission's consideration of the item.
ASSIGNING
OF TIME for members of the public wishing to
speak to an item is permissible within specified limits. A "representative speaker" may be
allowed one additional minute of speaking time, to a maximum of five (5)
additional minutes [hence, eight (8) minutes total] for each person actually in
attendance who assigns his or her right to speak via a request to speak form to
the "representative speaker." The project applicant, applicant’s representative
or team of representatives (which may include the project architect, attorney,
facilitator and all other representatives of the applicant), shall be allowed a
total of fifteen (15) minutes initially and three (3) minutes in rebuttal.
PRESENTATIONS
BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC should begin with the
speaker stating his or her name and address for the public record followed by a
statement regarding the item under consideration. Please speak to the Commission as a
whole.
PROFESSIONALS
APPEARING BEFORE THE COMMISSION should clearly
identify their status, such as "attorney", "paralegal",
"architect", "designer", or "landscape
architect". Instances of
misrepresentation of professional status may be referred to the City Attorney
for possible prosecution.
WRITTEN
MATERIALS, LETTERS AND E-MAILS regarding
agenda items should be submitted to the City Planning Division staff prior to
the Commission meeting. All written materials, including e-mails, will be
forwarded the Commission Secretary for inclusion in the public record and, if
received by noon on the Monday prior to the Wednesday public hearing, shall be
forwarded to the Commission in advance of the meeting. Late submissions will be
place on the dais on the night of the public hearing, but might not be reviewed
by the Commission..
EX
PARTE COMMUNICATION DISCLOSURES. During the pendency of any quasi-judicial proceeding, no
member of the Planning Commission may engage in ex parte
communications with applicants, appellants or members of the public with
respect to the matter which is the subject of the proceeding unless that member
of the Commission discloses such communication. Prior to each quasi-judicial
agenda item each Commissioner must place on the record the subject and
substance of any written or oral ex
parte communication
including the identity of the person, group or entity with whom the
communication took place.
TIME
LIMITATION ON CONSIDERATION OF NEW ITEMS. The
Commission shall not commence consideration of a new item on its agenda after
11:00 p.m. unless otherwise required by State or local law or unless otherwise
determined by a majority vote of those Commissioners present.
CONSENT
CALENDAR items will be acted upon by the Commission
at one time without discussion unless a Commissioner requests discussion on an
item or a member of the public has submitted a request to speak on an
item. If such a request is made, the
item will be heard after the balance of the Consent Calendar has been voted
upon.
ACTION
BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION on most matters
occurs with the affirmative votes of at least four Commissioners.
DESIGN
ASPECTS OF PROJECTS considered by the Planning
Commission must also be approved by the Architectural Review Board. For more information on this process, contact
the City Planning Division.
APPEALS of certain actions of the Commission are appealable
to the City Council. The appeal period
is generally ten to fourteen days from the date of the Commission’s action For
specific information on appeals, please contact the City Planning Division.
For
more information regarding the Planning Commission agenda or development permit procedures and
standards, please contact the City Planning Division at (310) 458-8341.
Copies
of agendas and staff reports are available on the City’s Home Page on the World
Wide Web using the following address: www.santa-monica.org or
http://www01.smgov.net/planning/planningcomm/planningagendas.htm
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