HomeMy WebLinkAbout18-22 - Resolution - Recommending Approval of General Plan Amendment to Amend Table LU-2, Victoria Gardens/Victoria Arbors Land Use Mix RESOLUTION NO. 18-22
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, RECOMMENDING APPROVAL
OF GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT DRC2017-00969 TO AMEND TABLE
LU-2 (VICTORIA GARDENS/VICTORIA ARBORS LAND USE MIX) TO
RELOCATE THE DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF 95 DWELLING UNITS
FROM THE RESIDENTIAL AREA TO THE MAIN STREET AREA IN THE
VICTORIA GARDENS MALL
A. Recitals.
1. The City of Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Mall, LLC, and Rancho Mall NE, LLC
(collectively, the "Applicants")jointly filed an application for General Plan Amendment DRC2017-
00969 as described in the title of this Resolution. Hereinafter in this Resolution, the subject
General Plan Amendment is referred to as the "Application."
2. On May 9, 2018, the Planning Commission conducted a duly noticed public
hearing on the application and concluded said hearing on that date.
3. All legal prerequisites prior to the adoption of this Resolution have occurred.
B. Resolution.
NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby found, determined, and resolved by the Planning
Commission of the City of Rancho Cucamonga as follows:
1. The Commission hereby specifically finds that all of the facts set forth in the
Recitals, Part A, of this Resolution are true and correct.
2. Based upon the substantial evidence presented to this Commission during the
above-referenced public hearing on May 9, 2018, including written and oral staff reports, together
with public testimony, this Commission hereby specifically finds as follows:
a. The Application addresses the location of residential development within a
planning area of the City known as Victoria Gardens, which is governed by the Victoria
Gardens Master Plan, the Victoria Arbors Master Plan, the Victoria Community Plan, the City's
General Plan, and a development agreement between the City and the applicant.
b. The property to the north of Victoria Gardens is designated Mixed Use, and
is partially developed with a winery and single-family residential development. The property
to the west is designated Mixed Use, and is developed with multi-family residential units. The
1-15 Freeway lies immediately to the east with the land further east designated Low-Medium
Residential and Medium Residential within the Etiwanda Specific Plan, and Regional Related
Commercial. The Main Street Area and Route 66 of the Victoria Gardens Mall is directly south
of the parcel and Foothill Boulevard lies further to the south, beyond which the land is
developed with commercial uses and designated Regional Related Office/Commercial.
c. The General Plan Land Use designation of Victoria Gardens is Mixed Use
and the properties surrounding Victoria Gardens are Mixed Use and south of Foothill
Boulevard is General Commercial.
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d. Table LU-2 of the General Plan sets forth the land use mix and density
within Victoria Gardens. The Application amends the maximum density within Victoria
Gardens' Residential and Residential/Mixed Use Main Street areas. Specifically, the
Application would reduce the maximum number of dwelling units within the Residential area
by 95 units and would increase the maximum number of dwelling units within the Main Street
area by 95 units. If the Application is approved, the new total number of dwelling units allowed
within the Residential area would be 987 units and within the Residential/Mixed Use Main
Street area would be 385 units.
e. On February 20, 2002 and in accordance with the California Environmental
Quality Act ("CEQA"), the City certified Environmental Impact Report SCH No. 2001031028
(EIR), which analyzed the potential environmental impacts of the Victoria Gardens Master
Plan. As the Lead Agency, the City considered the information in the EIR before approving
the Victoria Gardens Master Plan. At that time, the City Council also adopted a Statement of
Facts and Findings and Overriding Considerations for the Victoria Gardens Master Plan. The
Statement found that the economic, social, or other benefits of the Victoria Gardens Master
Plan outweighed the significant and unavoidable impacts identified in the EIR.
f. On May 6, 2009 and in accordance with CEQA, the City certified Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact Report SCH No. 2001031028 (SEIR), which analyzed
the potential environmental impacts of certain amendments to the Victoria Gardens Master
Plan and related amendments to the General Plan, Victoria Community Plan, and Victoria
Arbors Master Plan and the third amendment to the development agreement to allow the
development of residential uses in the Main Street Area, increase the average height in the
Main Street Area to 120 feet, with a maximum of 160 feet, amend the building setback
requirements for the Main Street Area, and clarify permitted and conditionally permitted uses
within the Victoria Gardens Master Plan area. At that time, the City Council also adopted a
Statement of Facts and Findings and Overriding Considerations for the project as the
economic, social, or other benefits of the project outweighed the significant and unavoidable
impacts identified in the SEIR.
g. Concurrent with this Application, the Applicant has also applied for Victoria
Gardens Master Plan Amendment DRC2017-00971, Development Agreement Amendment
DRC2017-000970 (DA01-02) and Tentative Parcel Map SUBTPM19963. The purpose of
these other applications is to rezone the vacant 5.33-acre parcel (APN: 109053106) from
Residential to Civic/Parking Area and modifying various language in the Victoria Gardens
Master Plan to allow the future development of a public parking lot/structure and police
substation on the parcel; and to facilitate this Application's consistency with the Victoria
Gardens Master Plan by reallocating 95 dwelling units between the Residential and Main
Street areas; incorporate the General Plan Amendment and Victoria Gardens Amendment
into the vested rights applicable to the Victoria Gardens Mall and facilitate the timing and
development of the public safety facility in the project, and to subdivide the 5.33-acre lot into
2 parcels, with one parcel consisting of approximately 1-acre for a future public safety facility
and the other parcel of approximately 4.33-acre parcel for a future parking lot and/or parking
structure. Collectively, these approvals are referred to herein as the "Project."
3. Based upon the substantial evidence presented to this Commission during the
above-referenced public hearing and upon the specific findings of facts set forth in Paragraphs 1
and 2 above, this Commission hereby finds and concludes as follows:
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a. The Application is consistent with the objectives, policies, and general land
uses specified in the General Plan and Development Code. The Application would reduce the
maximum number of residential dwelling units in the Residential Land Use Area by 95 units and
increase the number in the Main Street Land Use Area by 95 units. The overall number of units
within Victoria Gardens will not change and residential units will remain permitted uses within the
Main Street Land Use Area. Therefore, it is consistent with the objectives and policies and is
intended to allow for more flexibility in the future buildout of the residential units.
b. The Application will further the goals of the General Plan as the Mixed-Use
designation recognizes the need for more sustainable development that offers opportunities for
people to live close to work, play and be near transit stops. The Application anticipates the future
development of residential units within the mall and proposes to shift the location within the Main
Street Land Use Area.
4. Based upon the facts and information contained in the application, together with
all written and oral reports included for the environmental assessment for the application, the
Planning Commission finds that an addendum is required pursuant to the CEQA in connection
with the review and approval of this application based upon the following findings and
determinations:
a. Under CEQA Guidelines Section 15162, when an EIR has been previously
certified for a project, a lead agency must prepare a subsequent EIR if (1) substantial changes
are proposed to the project that will require major revision of the previous EIR due to the
involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of
previously identified significant effects; (2) substantial changes occur with respect to the
circumstances under which the project is undertaken which will require major revisions of the
previous EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial
increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; or (3) new information of
substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise
of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was certified as complete or the Negative
Declaration was adopted.
b. Under CEQA Guidelines Section 15164, the City may prepare an
addendum to an EIR in lieu of a subsequent EIR if the changes to the project or the circumstances
under which the project would be undertaken don't meet the conditions described in Section
15162 that require preparation of a subsequent EIR to make the EIR adequately apply to the
proposed project.
c. Based on the evaluation of potential environmental impacts of the Project
an addendum was prepared. The addendum analyzed the Project against the original project, as
approved in 2002 and 2009 and reviewed under the EIR and SEIR, and determined that because
the Project shifted uses anticipated within the Mall and that were previously identified and
approved as part of the Victoria Gardens Master Plan, the impacts generated by the Project
created no new impacts and were no more significant than the original project. Additionally, key
topics such as Noise, Traffic and Circulation and Cultural Impacts had been completed to further
analyze impacts related to recirculating traffic within Victoria Gardens due to the development of
parking on the Subject Property.
d. Based on the totality of the administrative record, the Planning Commission
finds in connection with the Application, that substantial changes to the original project or the
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circumstances surrounding the original project have not occurred which would create new or more
severe impacts than those evaluated in the previously certified EIR and SEIR, that no new
information has come to light that was known or could have known at the time the EIR and SIER
were adopted, and that the addendum to the EIR and SEIR complies with the requirements of
CEQA and recommends that the City Council adopt the addendum as being prepared in
compliance with CEQA. The purpose of the Application is to subdivide the Subject Property to
allow the future development of a public parking lot/structure and police substation on the Subject
Property.
e. Staff further finds that the addendum to the EIR and SEIR is in compliance
with CEQA as the Project will not have more significant effects than discussed in the previously
certified EIR and SEIR for the original project, not have more severe effects than previously
analyzed for the original project, and that additional or different mitigation measures are not
required to reduce the impacts of the proposed project to a level of less than significant. The
custodian of records for the Addendum, Final EIR and Final SEIR and all other materials which
constitute the record of proceedings upon which the Planning Commission's decision is based is
the Planning Director of the City of Rancho Cucamonga. Those documents are available for
public review in the Planning Department of the City of Rancho Cucamonga located at 10500
Civic Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, California 91730, telephone (909) 477-2750.
5. On the basis of the foregoing and the totality of the administrative record before it,
the Planning Commission hereby recommends that the City Council adopt the Addendum to the
EIR and SEIR and approve the General Plan Amendment as shown in Attachment A.
The Secretary to this Commission shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 9TH DAY OF MAY 2018.
PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA
BY:
Francisco Oaxaca, Chairman
ATTEST: C-44,• 731A-4-A-T—
Candyce urnett, Secretary
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I, Candyce Burnett, Secretary of the Planning Commission of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly introduced, passed, and
adopted by the Planning Commission of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, at a regular meeting of
the Planning Commission held on the 9th day of May 2018, by the following vote-to-wit:
AYES: COMMISSIONERS: GUGLIELMO, MACIAS, MUNOZ, OAXACA, WIMBERLY
NOES: COMMISSIONERS: NONE
ABSENT: COMMISSIONERS: NONE
ABSTAIN: COMMISSIONERS: NONE
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Attachment A
Amendment to the General Plan
Table LU-2 of the General Plan is hereby amended to appear as follows:
TABLE LU-2
VICTORIA GARDENS/VICTORIA ARBORS LAND USE MIX
Estimated
• Acreage Range "Most Case"
Percent • Density(du/acre) Acres/Dwelling
Land Use Range • Dwelling Unit Range Units(du)
Commercial—retail, service 20%-40% 99-209 acres 220 acres
commercial, office,tourist
commercial
Public/Quasi Public— 5%- 12% 26-61 acres 40 acres
performing arts center,trails,
landscape/hardscape, public
spaces
Civic/Parking Area 5.33 Acres 5.33 acres
(new)
Residential 15%-29% 77-148 acres @ 93 acres @
14 du/acre2 14 du/acre2
788 to 1,757 du 987 du
Residential/Mixed Use 0%-5% 5-21 acres@ 5 acres
Main Street Area 14-100du/acre 100 du/acre
385 du 385 du
Residential—Low Medium 6% 32 acres 32 acres @
4-8 du/acre 8 du/acre
128 to 256 du 208 dui
Total Residential' 21%-36% 112-206 acres 130 acres
1,206 to 2,398 du 1580 du
ROW—collector/local roads 20%-25% 102-128 acres 115 acres
TOTALS 100% 510 acres 510 acres
1.The acreage in this category also includes land for local park and school purposes.
2. Indicates target density,not a range. Actual density may increase up to 20 du/ac as long as the total
of 1,082 dwelling units is not exceeded.
3. Indicates target dwelling units based on historic city experience where development occurs midway
between 50 and 75%of the range.
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Attachment A
Amendment to the General Plan
Table LU-2 of the General Plan is hereby amended to appear as follows:
TABLE LU-2
VICTORIA GARDENS/VICTORIA ARBORS LAND USE MIX
Estimated
• Acreage Range "Most Case"
Percent • Density(du/acre) Acres/Dwelling
Land Use Range • Dwelling Unit Range Units(du)
Commercial—retail, service 20%-40% 99-209 acres 220 acres
commercial, office,tourist
commercial
Public/Quasi Public— 5%- 12% 26-61 acres 40 acres
performing arts center,trails,
landscape/hardscape, public
spaces
Civic/Parking Area 5.33 Acres 5.33 acres
(new)
Residential 15%-29% 77-148 acres @ 93 acres @
14 du/acre2 14 du/acre2
788 to 1,757 du 987 du
Residential/Mixed Use 0%-5% 5-21 acres@ 5 acres
Main Street Area 14-100du/acre 100 du/acre
385 du 385 du
Residential—Low Medium 6% 32 acres 32 acres @
4-8 du/acre 8 du/acre
128 to 256 du 208 dui
Total Residential' 21%-36% 112-206 acres 130 acres
1,206 to 2,398 du 1580 du
ROW—collector/local roads 20%-25% 102-128 acres 115 acres
TOTALS 100% 510 acres 510 acres
1.The acreage in this category also includes land for local park and school purposes.
2. Indicates target density, not a range. Actual density may increase up to 20 du/ac as long as the total
of 1,082 dwelling units is not exceeded.
3. Indicates target dwelling units based on historic city experience where development occurs midway
between 50 and 75%of the range.
ADDENDUM TO THE FINAL SUPPLEMENTAL
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE VICTORIA
GARDENS MASTER PLAN
DISTRIBUTED UNDER SEPARATE COVER