HomeMy WebLinkAbout18-21 - Resolution - Approval of Tentative Parcel Map SUBTPM19963 RESOLUTION NO.18-21
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING TENTATIVE
PARCEL MAP SUBTPM19963 TO SUBDIVIDE A 5.33-ACRE LOT INTO 2
PARCELS LOCATED GENERALLY NORTH OF THE VICTORIA
GARDENS CULTURAL CENTER ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF
ARBOR DRIVE AND CULTURAL CENTER DRIVE 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 Tentative Parcel Map SUBTPM19963
as described in the title of this Resolution. Hereinafter in this Resolution, the subject Tentative
Parcel Map 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 applies to a 5.33-acre parcel that was previously approved
for a 95-unit condominium development that is mostly vacant with minimal infrastructure
improvements located generally north of the Victoria Gardens Cultural Center on the north-
east corner or Arbor Drive and Cultural Center Drive within the Victoria Gardens Mall ("Subject
Property"). Said property is currently designated as Mixed Use.
b. Development of the Subject Property 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, Rancho Mall, LLC, and Rancho Mall
NE, LLC.
c. The property to the north of the Subject Property 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 Bass Pro Shop and the I-15 Freeway lie 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 Mainstreet Area and Route 66 of the
Victoria Gardens Mall is directly south of the parcel and Foothill Boulevard lies further to the
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south, beyond which the land is developed with commercial uses and designated Regional
Related Office/Commercial.
d. The Application is for the subdivision of 5.33 acres of land into two parcels,
with one parcel consisting of approximately 1 acre and the other parcel of approximately 4.33
acres.
e. The lots are proposed to be for a future public safety facility (the 1-acre
parcel) and for a future parking lot and/or parking structure (the 4.33-acre parcel).
f. The General Plan Land Use designation of the Subject Property is Mixed
Use and the properties surrounding the Subject Property are Mixed Use.
g. 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.
h. On May 6, 2009 and in accordance with the 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 certain 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.
Concurrent with this Application, the Applicant has also applied for General
Plan Amendment DRC2017-00969, Victoria Gardens Master Plan Amendment DRC2017-
00971, and a Development Agreement Amendment DRC2017-000970 (DA01-02). The
purpose of these other applications is to modify Table LU-2 of the General Plan (Victoria
Gardens/Victoria Arbors Land Use Mix) to reduce the maximum number of residential units in
the Residential Land Use Area by 95 units and to increase the maximum number of residential
units in the Residential/Mixed Use Main Street Land Use Area by 95 units; to rezone the
Subject Property 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 Subject Property; and to incorporate the General
Plan Amendment and Victoria Gardens Master Plan Amendments into the vested rights
applicable to the Victoria Gardens Mall and facilitate the timing and development of the public
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safety facility in the project. 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:
a. The design and layout of the parcel map are consistent with the objectives,
policies, and general land uses specified in the General Plan, the Victoria Gardens Master Plan,
the Victoria Arbors Master Plan, the Victoria Community Plan. and the Development Code. The
Subject Property is being subdivided for the development of 2 parcels for public use in association
with the Cultural Center, Public Safety facility and parking lot for the Mall.
b. The site is physically suitable for the parcel map and density of
development which will create two (2) lots. The project will include a vehicle access point off
Cultural Center Drive and Arbor Drive and will be designed to accommodate the level of traffic
proposed by the development.
c. The design of the parcel map is not likely to cause substantial
environmental damage and avoidable injury to humans and wildlife or their habitat. Environmental
studies were submitted and reviewed by staff as part of the EIR and SEIR and the Application
was further reviewed as part of an addendum to the EIR and SEIR. Staff concluded that there
would not be any significant effect on the environment.
d. The parcel map is not likely to cause serious public health problems. The
proposed project is for the development of 2 lots for the project for a public safety facility and
parking lot/structure which generally do not include the use of hazardous materials.
e. The design of the parcel map will not conflict with any easement acquired
by the public at large, now of record, for access through or use of the property within the proposed
subdivision. Access to the Subject Property will be from existing public streets surrounding the
project site and access from private streets. The site is associated with an established shopping
center and is an expansion of the parking area and relocation of the public safety facility.
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 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
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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
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 been 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. The Commission 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.
f. 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 Tentative Parcel Map SUBTPM19963 as shown in Attachment A.
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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
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ATTEST:
Candy Burnett, Secretary
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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