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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. PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 18-22 GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT DRC2017-00969—CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA May 9, 2018 Page 2 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: PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 18-22 GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT DRC2017-00969 —CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA May 9, 2018 Page 3 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 PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 18-22 GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT DRC2017-00969— CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA May 9, 2018 Page 4 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 PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 18-22 GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT DRC2017-00969—CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA May 9, 2018 Page 5 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 PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 18-22 GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT DRC2017-00969 —CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA May 9, 2018 Page 6 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. PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 18-22 GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT DRC2017-00969—CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA May 9, 2018 Page 6 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