HomeMy WebLinkAbout94-113 - ResolutionsREH)LUTIC~NO. 94-113
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1. General Dynamics ~ filed an application for General Plan
A~endment No. 93-02A as descr~ i~ the title of this ~esolution.
Hereinafter in this Resolution, the subject General Plan Amendment is referred
to as "the application."
2. On February 23, and March 23, 1994, The Planning O~,.,,{~ion of
the city of Rancho Ck~am~nga oonduct~d_ workshope on the application.
3. On April 27, 1994, the Planning Ck.,,,,{~ion of the City of Rancho
O~c~d conducted a duly noticed public hearing on the application and,
following the conclusion of said public hearing, adopted its Resolution No.
94-30, thereby reomm~ndin~ to the City Council that the application be
4. On June 1, 1994, the City Council of the City of Rancho Ck~amonga
conducted a duly noticed public hearing on the application and co~cl~_~ said
5. All legal ~erequisites prior to the adoption of this Resolution
have occurred.
B. Resolution.
NOW, THEREFORE, it is hereby found, determined, and resolved by the
City (Duncil of the City of Rancho Cucamonga as follows:
1. ~ Council here~ specifically finds that all of the facts set
forth in the Recitals, Part A, of this Resolution are true and correct.
2. Based upon substantial evidence presented to this Cour~il duri~
together with public testimony, this Council hereby specifically finds as
follows:
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a. The application applies to approximately 380 acres of land,
located w~st of Milliken Avenue, between 4th Street and the A. T. & S. F.
Railroad and is pxmm~tly vacant, exDept for 75 acres developed with three
indu~ial office buildings. Said property is currently u~er contiguous
ownex~hip and is designated as Ge~_ral Industrial and Industrial Park;
b. The property to the n~rth of the subject site is designated
Heavy Industrial and is developed. The property to the w~st is designated
pr~ ty to the east is designated General Industrial and Industrial Park and
Center Specific Plan and is vacant;
c. The application is part of a series of applicati~s relating
to a Subarea 18 Specific Plan, whic~ contemplates a broad range of uses, such
as recreational, hotel/conferenoe center, retail, restaurant, and
entex~ainment, as well as office, research and development, and light
industrial uses surrcundir~ an 18-hole public golf course;
d. This amendment does not conflict with the Land Use Policies
of the General Plan or the other el~fcs of the General Plan and will provide
for derelcO, within the district, in a manner consistent with the General
Plan and with related dev~lc~;
e. ~ amendment does pmmxfee the goals and objectives of the
Use Element and all other elements of the General Plan; and
f. This amendment would not be mterially injurious or
detrimental to the adjacent properties and an Environmental Impact Re~c~t has
been prepared and, co~currerfcly with this application, by separate Resolution,
is reo~,,,-~nded to the City Council for certification.
3. Based upon the subetantial evidence presented to this Council
during the above-referenced public hearing and upon the specific findings of
facts set forth in paragr~ 1 and 2 above, this Oouncil hereby finds and
ooncludes as follows:
a. ~hat th~ subject ~ is suitable for the uses permitted
in the ~-uf~d district in terms of aooess, size, and oc~patibility with
b. ~hat the px~ ~ is in oonformance with the
General Plan and will not result in any /nternal inoonsistencies with the
General Plan. ~he detailed findings of conformity set fcxth in Exhibit "~'
4. Based upc~ the findings and conclusions set forth in
pH~jra~s 1, 2, and 3 above, this C~uncil hereby ap~m~ G~aral Plan
Amendmer~ No. 93-02A to amend the land use map fr~n General Irdustrial and
~ial Park to Mix_~d__ Use and Open Space for 380 acres of land at the
noxT/aw~t oorner of Milliken A~ and 4th Street (see Exhibit "A") and
the text of the Rancho Ctk~u,~3~ General Plan, as follc~s:
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a. ~he following ns~ mjo~ ~ use rotegory mhall be
pre~ ~ublic Facilities, m p~ge III-16, to re~d as foll~s:
capitalizes ~ the ability of a mi~ed-use project
to e~olving market o~z~iti~, to offer a variety
of physic type, to create
strong pedestrian orientation. ~ use
projects typically ~te a m{x of office,
~ial, light ir~ustrial, and research
oriented activities, and residential uses all
clustered together into unified, highly
identifiable develq~nts. Entertainment,
recreatic~al, cultural, and conventio~ uses my
also be part of the mix. These projects bring an
"urban scale" and are in~ended to becrm~ focal
points within the c~,m-,nity. Uses may be stacked
within a single multi-use building or
individually arranged together on a parcel. D~en
built adjacent to, or in oonjunction with, public
transit facilities, a built-in ri_d~rship base is
established."
b. The follc~ing third paragraph shall be added to the Open
Spaoe .~ctic~l, page III-16, to ~ as follows:
residential housing p~ojects, also help maintain
an open character within the City. In
particular, large open spaces, such as Heritage
Park, Red Hill Park, the future Central Park, the
futn/re SLsbarea 18 golf course and the Red Hill
Country Club golf course, provide significant
vistas, and provide animal _h~bitat, vegetation,
c. ~he third paragraph under Location of Open Space, page IV-19,
shall read as follows:
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golf oourse is planned to stretc~ frc~ 4th Street
to the A. T. & S. F. Railroad, ~mst of Milliken
Aver~ae, as the central open spaoe amenity of the
Substea 18 Specific Plan."
d. ~he Figure III-1 Land Use Plan and the Table III-2 Land Use
Smarary shall be revised to reflect the land use changes within the Subarea 18
Specific Plan (see Exhibit "A").
e. The Figure III-3 Circulatic~ Plan shall be revised to delete
Cleveland Avenue (-_~ Exhibit "B").
f. The Figure III-4 Transit Concept Plan shall be revised
to indicate a rail c~m~fcer line along the A. T. & S. F. Railroad and a
rail c~t.t~fcer transfer station on the west side of Milliken Avenue at the
A. T. & S. F. Railroad (see Exhibit "~').
g. The Figure III-10 CL*,~anity Design Resources shall be revised
to indicate the approximately 150-acre golf course contemplated within the
Subarea 18 Specific Plan, ~ 4th Street and the A. T. & S. F. Railroad,
w~st of Milliken Averm~, as a '~ajor Parks and Recreation" feature (see
Emhibit "D") .
h. The Figure IV-4 Open Space Plan shall be revised to indicate
the approximately 150-acre golf course contempla~ with the Subarea 18
Specific Plan, between 4th Street and the A. T. & S. F. Railroad, west of
Milliken Avenue, as a "Propoeed Park" (see Exhibit "E").
5. Pursuant to provisions of California Public Resources Code
Section 21089(b), this application shall not be operative, vested or final,
n~r will building permits be issued or a map recorded, until (1) the Notice of
Determination (NOD) regarding the associated envirommental action is filed and
poeted with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the Oounty of San
Bex~ardi~o; and (2) any and all req~ed filing fees ~.~=~d pursuant to
Califcxnia Fish and Ga~e Oode Section 711.4, together with any required
han~ing charge, ar~ palU to trim Ommty Clerk of the C~mty of ~n
Bernardino.
In t~ ~-v{m~t ti~ a~plication is ~e,m~ir~ ~ f-~ ~ fili~
fe~ 1~ to t~ -~.~--~i(xs of ~2ne <~mlif(xrnia Fi~ eund ~ (~cle, or ~
~ for filJ~ a O~z~2[fic~ of Fee ~{n$fcion, ~ c~ndition st~all be
~k~ r~l eund void.
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The City Clerk to this C~uncil s~all o~ to the ad~c~ of
~ ADOPTED th/s 1st day of June, 1994.
Alexander, Buquet, Gutierrez, Williams
I, DEBRA J. ADAMS, CITY CI',I~"RK of the City of Rancho O~mo~3a, California, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolutic~ was duly pa~d, approved, And
adopted by the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, Califc~a, at a
re=3ular meeting of said City Council held c~ the 1st day of June, 1994.
E~c~ted this 2rid day of June, 1994, at Ranc~x) O~cF~3a, California.
~~City Clerk
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EXHIBIT
GENERAL PLAN CONSISTENCY
This Exhibit assesses how the Sub-Area 18 Specific
Plan and the proposed amendment to the Industrial Area
Specific Plan and General Plan (the "project") furthers the
objectives and policies of the General Plan of the City of
Rancho Cucamonga, and whether the project will obstruct the
attainment of these objectives and policies. Rather than
attempt to analyze each individual objective, policy, or
program set forth in the General Plan -- a process which
would detract from understanding how the Sub-Area 18
Specific Plan relates to the Industrial Area Specific Plan
and the General Plan as a whole -- the relationship between
the Sub-Area 18 Specific Plan is discussed within the
context of each of the principal components comprising the
General Plan -- Land Use and Development, Environmental
Resources, and Public Health and Safety -- with more
detailed discussion reserved for those specific policies and
objectives that are particularly germane to assessing the
changes proposed relative to the current Industrial Area
Specific Plan (IASP) and General Plan land use designations.
A. Land Use and Development.
1. General Land Use Objectives.
The General Plan identifies a number of key land
use objectives that "are aimed at creating a City that
functions efficiently, is exciting to leave in, and makes
the best use of its various resources." A number of these
objectives have been incorporated as principal objectives of
the Sub-Area 18 Specific Plan, including: (i) encourage
opportunities to mix different, but compatible land uses and
activities; (ii) provide recreational, cultural, and
employment opportunities to meet the needs of the
community; (iii) coordinate industrial development to
encourage an integrated industrial area with maximum
flexibility and access to the regional circulation network;
(iv) promote land use patterns that encourage non-motorized
modes of transportation; and (v) organize land uses to
promote maximal opportunity for transit usage.
The project promotes these important objectives by
establishing a more flexible, better integrated array of
proposed land uses within the context of a Specific Plan.
The expanded variety and mixture of uses established under
the Sub-Area Specific Plan, in conjunction with changes in
market demand and increased commercial development on the
southern edge of the IASP, are expected to promote the land
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use objectives identified in the General Plan, including
those enumerated above.
2. General Land Use Policies.
a. Industrial.
The General Plan currently establishes three
categories of industrial land uses: Industrial Park,
General Industrial, and Heavy Industrial. The General Plan
specifically reflects that the policies relating to
industrial uses are "elaborated in the City's Industrial
Area Specific Plan which outlines a much more detailed
development program for this area."
The General Plan describes "Industrial Park" uses
as "planned grouped concentrations of industrial and
research and development offices," which are "typically
labor intensive, meaning that the number of employees per
acre is high. The General Plan contemplates that these uses
will be organized along major thoroughfares, including 4th
Street, and "along the periphery of the industrial area and
with convenient access to public transit." That portion of
the project site currently located within IASP Sub-Area 12
is designated as Industrial Park under both the IASP and the
General Plan. The IASP currently permits a variety of
commercial uses within this Sub-Area, including
professional/design services, administrative and office,
research services, business support services, financial,
insurance and real estate services, hotel, commercial and
recreation facilities, including a golf course.
The General Plan describes "General Industrial"
land use as permitting a wide range of industrial activities
including heavy commercial, and office uses. The General
Plan states that "this land use is appropriate as a buffer
between non-industrial uses and heavy industrial uses."
That portion of the project site within current Sub-Areas 10
and 11 are designated "General Industrial" under the IASP
and the General Plan. The IASP permits, or conditionally
permits, office professional, design and research, indoor
wholesale/retail commercial, and recreational facilities
within this zone.
Although all of the industrial uses and many of the
commercial uses proposed under the Sub-Area 18 Specific Plan
are permitted or conditionally permitted under the current
IASP Industrial Park, and General Industrial designations,
one of the express objectives of this project is to
eliminate what are perceived as artificial and arbitrary
divisions between the three existing Sub-Areas (for example,
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a number of uses which may be permitted in Sub-Area 12 may
be prohibited or only conditionally permitted in Sub-Area 10
or 11) . Specifically, by expanding the variety of
commercial and recreational uses contemplated within the
project site, the Property Owner intends to inject more
creative and imaginative employment-generating designs and
to help better integrate this portion of the southern
boundary of the IASP with anticipated regional market
trends. As a result, the Property Owner is proposing an
amendment to the IASP ("IASP Amendment") to specifically
incorporate the Sub-Area 18 Specific Plan and to
concurrently amend the General Plan to reflect the IASP
Amendment.
While an amendment to the General Plan to reflect
the IASP Amendment and the adoption of the Sub-Area 18
Specific Plan would, alone, appear to ensure consistency, it
was also felt that the three categories of industrial use
currently identified in the General Plan, while specifically
acknowledging the need to provide for labor intensive office
and commercial uses and non-industrial transitions within
the industrial category could be construed narrowly, and
thereby discourage the General Plan objectives (noted above)
to promote planning flexibility and the mixture of
different, but compatible land uses. As a result, the
Property Owner has proposed an additional amendment to the
General Plan to add a new category of land use entitled
"Mixed-Use." The Mixed-Use category permits a wide range of
a commercial and industrial activities including, medium,
light, and custom manufacturing, research and development,
office, recreation, mixed-use commercial, retail, and
general commercial. Because the proposed uses within the
areas designated Mixed-Use under the Sub-Area Specific Plan
will also be designated Mixed-Use under the General Plan
Amendment, consistency will be ensured.
b. Open Space.
The General Plan provides that open space
areas must be maintained "in order to protect valuable
natural resources, and to prevent development in areas
considered unsafe because of environmental constraints"
The General Plan contains a variety of "written and mapped
policies to ensure that the resources are managed so that
posterity can enjoy them." The IASP currently does not
contain any open space district designations, although the
IASP does permit, or conditionally permit, golf course uses
within each of the three Sub-Areas currently comprising the
project site.
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Although the applicant's proposed amendment to
the General Plan to reflect the IASP Amendment and the
adoption of the Sub-Area 18 Specific Plan would itself
ensure consistency with the General Plan's policies relating
to open space, the City has requested that instead of
designating the Golf Course "Mixed-Use" along with the
remainder of the Sub-Area 18, that this portion of the site
be designated "Open Space" Because the current description
of open space uses within the General Plan may be construed
to refer specifically to the conservation of natural
resources, an additional amendment to the definition of
"Open Space" has been proposed to clarify that the Open
Space designation may also include man-made open spaces,
including golf course uses, within designated areas adjacent
to residential, commercial, or industrial uses. The
clarifying amendment will ensure project consistency with
the General Plan.
3. Circulation.
The General Plan establishes a circulation
system for the City as a whole and the IASP area. The
Circulation Plan established under the Sub-Area Specific
Plan preserves this circulation system in all principal
respects. However, the proposed vacation of a portion of
Cleveland Avenue south of 6th Street and the redesignation
of Cleveland north of 6th Street from a secondary arterial
with an 88-foot right-of-way to a 66-foot local industrial
collector, does require a corresponding amendment to the
General Plan Circulation Plan. Because the project EIR
indicates that no traffic impacts will occur as a result of
the vacation and redesignation of Cleveland, the conforming
General Plan amendment will ensure consistency with the
policies and objectives of the General Plan.
4. Public Facilities.
The General Plan contains a variety of
objectives and policies designed to ensure that adequate
public facilities and services will be maintained as the
City develops. The proposed project is not expected to have
any substantial impact on the City's Parks and Recreational
Plan, or on schools. The establishment of a golf course as
a central feature of the Specific Plan will promote a number
of General Plan policies concerning the encouragement of
recreational uses.
5. Community Design.
The primary design goals identified in the
General Plan are to promote the functional efficiency of the
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City, improve the City's image and appearance and to use
development to express community character. The Sub-Area 18
Specific Plan promotes these primary objectives and the more
detailed community design elements set forth in the General
Plan by providing a unifying character to the project site
through the adoption of a Specific Plan which incorporates a
variety of land uses around a central golf course feature.
Consistency is further ensured through the retention of
existing City policies relating to performance standards,
site development criteria, subdivision, master planning, and
development and design review. Additionally, preservation
of the principal features of the City Circulation Plan
ensures that the objectives associated with maintaining
travel routes will be promoted. The incorporation of
project design features adjacent to the proposed Metrolink
station further promotes these objectives.
B. Environmental Resources.
1. Land Resources.
This section of the General Plan contains a number
of objectives and policies designed to promote proper soil
management techniques and to prevent the premature
elimination of agricultural land whenever feasible. The
Sub-Area Specific Plan will not change the impact of
development on the existing grape vineyard uses on the site.
The loss of this agricultural use was previously
acknowledged as inevitable when the IASP was first adopted.
By requiring subsequent development to comply with
applicable City policies and procedures concerning soil
management and grading activities, the Sub-Area 18 Specific
Plan ensures compliance with the General Plan land resource
objectives and policies.
2. Water Resources.
The General Plan contains several objectives and
policies designed to protect and enhance water resources.
Compliance with applicable City policies and procedures as a
condition to subdivision and Design Review approval ensure
compliance with these policies and objectives. The'EIR for
the Sub-Area 18 Specific Plan concludes that no significant
impacts to water resources will occur.
3. Open Space.
The conforming amendments to the General Plan
ensure consistency with the General Plan's policies and
objectives concerning the preservation of open space. The
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establishment of a golf course will result in an increase in
open space areas within the project site.
4. Enerq¥.
The General Plan identifies the objective of
encouraging more efficient use of energy resources. The
project EIR incorporates a number of mitigation measures
specifically intended to promote this objective. Compliance
with applicable City policies and regulations as a condition
to subdivisions and Design Review approvals further ensures
consistency with the General Plan's energy objectives and
policies.
C. Public Health and Safety.
The General Plan sets forth a broad number of objectives
and policies designed to ensure that subsequent development
within the City will be sensitive to geologic, seismic,
flood, fire, noise, air quality, crime, and emergency
service concerns and hazards. The Sub-Area 18 Specific Plan
preserves development and regulatory procedures from the
IASP and the City Development Code as a means to mitigate
potential impacts in each of the areas identified in the
General Plan. Additionally, each of these areas are
explored in more detail in the project EIR, which indicates
that the changes from the current designations under the
IASP will not result in any substantial additional impacts
to the environment. Although the EIR indicates that
development of the project site (under either the proposed
Sub-Area 18 Specific Plan or the current IASP designations)
will result in new sources of construction and operational
air emissions, the Sub-Area 18 Specific Plan contemplates
the adoption of a transportation demand management strategy
consistent with the policies identified in the General Plan.
In particular, the location of industrial and commercial
uses in proximity to the proposed Metrolink station provides
a mechanism to ensure that non-motorized transportation
policies will be achieved. The incorporation of numerous
mitigation measures dealing with the suppression of
particulate emissions and the promotion of energy
conservation further ensures consistency with the ~eneral
Plan air quality objectives and policies.
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