COMPLETED
                          A G E N D A

           REGULAR MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION
                  OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA

                         Founded 1875
                "Populus felix in urbe felici"

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1997                 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
       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.

5.     APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
       Public Input Permitted

5-A.   February 19, 1997
       ACTION: APPROVED.

5-B.   February 26, 1997
       ACTION: APPROVED.

6.     STATEMENTS OF OFFICIAL ACTION: Consent Calendar
       Public Input Permitted

6-A:   2020 Wilshire Boulevard: CUP 96-019 
       ACTION: APPROVED.

6-B:   1136-44 Fourth Street: DR 95-002, VAR 95-015, TA 97-001
       & CUP 97-002 and Final Mitigated Negative Declaration
       ACTION: APPROVED.



7.     PUBLIC HEARINGS:  Consent Calendar
       Public Input Permitted

7-A:   Tenant-Participating Conversion Case TPC-330, Vesting
       Tentative Tract No. 52300 to convert at 10-unit
       apartment building to condominiums at 924 Fifth Street. 
       (Planner: Gina Szilak)
       ACTION: APPROVED.
       Staff Report

8.     PUBLIC HEARINGS:
       Public Input Permitted

8-A:   Development Review 96-001 and Conditional Use Permit 96-
       011, 2415-2449 Main Street, Application for Development
       Review 96-001 and Conditional Use Permit 96-011 to amend
       existing conditions of approval to permit a change in
       use from museum space to one 65-seat and one 99-seat
       live performance theater space with a maximum of two
       artist studios; to allow outdoor restaurant seating with
       alcohol sales; and  to allow an increase in the total
       number of restaurant seats from 75 to 101. In addition, 
       Conditional Use Permit 97-004 is to allow  the new 99-
       seat live performance theater (theaters with more than
       75 seats in the CM District require a CUP); Variance 96-
       001 is to permit the new uses with the provision of 26
       rather than the Code required 47 parking spaces based on
       a shared use parking analysis; General Plan Amendment
       96-001 is to change the land use designation (from
       medium density residential to service and specialty
       commercial);  and Text Amendment 96-003 is to amend the
       Official City Districting Map (from OP2, Low Family
       Residential to CM2, Main Street Commercial). (Planner:
       Donna Jerex)   Applicant: Edgemar Development and the
       Loretta Theater. [Continued from March 19, 1997.]
       ACTION: PUBLIC HEARING OPENED; CONTINUED TO MAY 28,
       1997.
       Staff Report

8-B:   Conditional Use Permit 96-026, 1429-1431 Third Street
       Promenade, BSC-1, Application for a Conditional Use
       Permit to convert an existing restaurant/bar/billiard
       hall with an approved Type-47 (On-Sale General for
       Public Eating Place) alcohol license to a nightclub with
       a 480 square foot dance floor and live music.  The
       proposed nightclub would have a total of 335 seats.
       (Planner: Susan Healy Keene) Applicant: Renee and Albert
       Mizrahi.
       ACTION: CONTINUED TO MAY 28,M 1997.
       Staff Report

9.     COMMUNICATIONS:

       A.   Appeals to City Council
            1.   2900 Thirty-First Street, CUP 96-024

10.    COMMISSION AGENDA

11     PUBLIC INPUT

12.    ADJOURNMENT