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Notice is hereby given that a Special Meeting of the Planning
Commission will be held at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, at the
City Council Chambers in City Hall, 1685 Main Street, Room # 213, Santa Monica,
for the purpose of conducting the following business: |
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A G E N D A SPECIAL MEETING OF
THE PLANNING COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF Founded 1875
"Populus felix in urbe felici" |
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WEDNESDAY, November
9, 2011 CITY
COUNCIL CHAMBERS 7:00 P.M. ROOM
213, CITY HALL |
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. PUBLIC
HEARING: Public Input Permitted
5-A. BIKE ACTION
PLAN: Consideration
of a recommendation to City Council regarding adoption of the Proposed Bike
Action, including Initial Study and Negative Declaration.
The Bike Action Plan
outlines facilities and programs to encourage more bicycling in Santa Monica,
and to improve the quality and convenience of the bicycle network. Its
recommendations implement the bicycle goals and policies in the adopted Land
Use and Circulation Element of the General Plan, with a target of increasing
bicycling to 14-35 percent of all trips made within Santa Monica. The Draft
Bike Action Plan has been available for public comment since August 2011.
Pursuant to CEQA, a
Draft Initial Study/Negative Declaration was prepared to analyze potential
environmental impacts of the Proposed Bike Action Plan. In accordance with CEQA Guidelines Section
15073, the Draft Initial Study/Negative Declaration for the Proposed Bike
Action Plan was circulated for a 30-day public review period from August 29,
2011 to September 28, 2011. No comments were received on the Draft Initial
Study/Negative Declaration. The Final Initial Study/Negative Declaration
concluded that the Bike Action Plan would not result in significant impacts and
no mitigation measures would be required.
6. DISCUSSION:
6-A. Discussion and review of the Planning Commission discussion list
with the intention of organizing and prioritizing the list for future meeting
dates.
7. ADJOURNMENT
[Because this is a special meeting, public
comment is permitted only on items listed on this agenda. 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.
City Hall and the Council Chambers is wheelchair
accessible. If you have any disability-related accommodation request, please
contact (310) 458-8341, or TDD Number: (310) 458-8696 at least three (3) days
prior to the meeting. All written materials are available in
alternate format upon request.
Please turn-off or
set your cell phone to vibrate while in the Council Chambers.
Santa Monica “Big Blue” Bus Lines #1, #2, #3, Rapid 3, #7, and #9 service
the City Hall and the Civic Center. Street parking is available
in front of City Hall and on Olympic Drive and in the Civic Center Parking
Structure (free validation).
CITY PLANNING
COMMISSION
Jennifer
Kennedy, Commissioner
Richard
McKinnon, Commissioner
Gerda
Newbold, Vice-Chairperson
Jason
Parry, Commissioner
Jim Ries, Chairperson
Ted Winterer,
Commissioner
One Vacancy
David Martin,
Director of Planning & Community Development
Amanda Schachter,
City Planning Manager
Francie Stefan,
Strategic & Transportation 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