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Notice to the Public
If you want to address the Commission, fill out a card (located
on the table as you come in or at the technician's station), and give the
completed card to the technician. Please include the agenda item number for
reference.
The procedure for this hearing is as follows:
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After the staff report, applicants and appellants may make a
5-minute presentation.
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The chair will call out names on the submitted speaker cards in
the order received.
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As your name is called, line up in front of the microphone at
the front of the Chamber. Each speaker will have two minutes.
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After the public testimony, the applicant and appellant may
make closing remarks for an additional five minutes.
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Planning Commissioners may ask questions of the speakers.
These questions will not reduce the speaker's time allowance.
The public hearing will then be closed and the Planning
Commission will take action on the item. The Planning Commission may
request staff to respond to the public testimony, ask staff questions, and
discuss the item.
If you challenge these land use decisions in court, you may be
limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at this public
hearing or in written correspondence delivered to the City at, or prior to, the
public hearing.
The Planning Commission's action on rezonings, prezonings, and
Code Amendments is advisory only to the City Council. The City Council will
hold public hearings on these items. Section 20.120.400 of the Municipal Code
provides the procedures for legal protests to the City Council on rezonings and
prezonings.
Note: If you have any agenda changes, please contact
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2. Deferrals,
Drops and Withdrawal
Any item scheduled for hearing
this evening for which deferral is being requested will be taken out of order
to be heard first on the matter of deferral.
A list of staff-recommended deferrals is available on the Press Table.
If you want to change any of the deferral dates recommended or speak to
the question of deferring these or any other items, you should say so at this
time.
a.
GP03-02-04
GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT request to change the Land Use/Transportation Diagram
designation from Industrial Park to Industrial Park with Mixed Industrial
Overlay for property located on the southerly side of Piercy Road,
approximately 300 feet easterly of Hellyer Avenue on an approximately 16-acre
site. (Barry DiRaimondo, Owner/Family Community Church, Applicant).
SNI: None. Council
District: 2
DEFER to April 26, 2004
3. Consent
Calendar
NOTICE
TO THE PUBLIC
The consent calendar items are
considered to be routine and will be adopted by one motion.
There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a request
is made by a member of the Planning Commission, staff or the public to have
an item removed from the consent calendar and considered separately.
If anyone in the audience wishes to speak on one of these items,
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a. GP03-03-18:
GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT request to change the Land Use/Transportation
Diagram designation from Light Industrial to General Commercial for property
located on the southwest corner of West Hedding Street and Coleman Avenue
(879 Coleman Avenue) on a 0.45-acre site. (Pinn Brothers, Inc., Owner/Pinn
Brothers Construction, Inc., Applicant). CEQA:
Mitigated Negative Declaration, GP03-03-18.
SNI: None. Council District:
3.
Staff Recommendation: Adopt the proposed amendment.
RECOMMEND APPROVAL (6-0-1; PLATTEN
ABSENT).
b. GP03-05-06:
GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT request to change
the Land Use/Transportation Diagram designation from Medium Low Density Residential
(8 DU/AC) to General Commercial for property located on the southwest corner
of McKee Road and Vista Avenue on a 0.35-acre site. (Henry Ho, Owner/Applicant).
In addition, Planning staff has proposed an expansion to change the
Land Use/Transportation Diagram designation from Medium Low Density Residential
(8 DU/AC) to General Commercial for three adjacent parcels located at the
southeast corner of Kirk Avenue and McKee Road (3454, 3468, and 3490 McKee
Road) on 0.53 acres. CEQA:
Mitigated Negative Declaration, GP03-05-06
pending.
SNI: None. Council District:
5.
Staff Recommendation: Adopt the proposed amendment.
RECOMMEND APPROVAL (6-0-1; PLATTEN ABSENT).
c. GP03-05-09:
GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT request to change
the Land Use/Transportation Diagram designation from Medium Low Density Residential
(8 DU/AC) to General Commercial for property located on the west side of South
White, approximately 300 feet north of Story Road (1075 and 1085 South White
Road) on a 0.53-acre site. In addition, Planning
staff has proposed an expansion to amend the General Plan designation from
Medium Low Density Residential (8 DU/AC) to General Commercial for
the adjacent parcel located at 1095 South White Road on 0.43 acres. (De
La Torres Properties, Owner/ Mike Ma, Applicant). CEQA:
Mitigated Negative Declaration, GP03-05-09 pending.
SNI: East Valley/680 Communities.
Council District: 5.
Staff Recommendation: Adopt the proposed amendment.
RECOMMEND APPROVAL (6-0-1; PLATTEN ABSENT).
d. The items
being considered are located at the north side of Hillsdale Avenue, opposite
the terminus of Vista
Park Drive on a 7.3-gross-acre site in the Communications Hill Specific
Plan area. (Rob Bettencourt et al, Owner/ KB Home, Applicant).
1. GP03-07-11:
GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT request to change the Land Use/Transportation Diagram
to modify the Communication Hill Specific Plan as follows: 1) allow a reduction
from the 24 DU/AC minimum density on certain blocks to a minimum 17 DU/AC
provided that the average density within the project area is within the
24-40 DU/AC range; and 2) allow reduction to the required 30-foot minimum
front-to-front building separation distance. CEQA: Final Environmental Impact Report for the Communications
Hill Specific Plan, Resolution No. 63624, GP03-07-11. SNI: None. Council
District: 7.
Staff Recommendation: Adopt the proposed amendment.
RECOMMEND APPROVAL (6-0-1; PLATTEN ABSENT).
2. GPT03-07-11:
GENERAL PLAN TEXT AMENDMENT to revise the Communication Hill Planned Community
to reflect the proposed changes to the Communications Hill Specific Plan.
CEQA: Final Environmental Impact
Report for the Communications Hill Specific Plan, Resolution No. 63624,
GPT03-07-11. SNI: None.
Council District: 7.
Staff Recommendation: Adopt the proposed text amendment.
RECOMMEND APPROVAL (6-0-1; PLATTEN ABSENT).
4. Public
Hearings
