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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRes No 681PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION N0. 681 A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING AND RECOMMENDING TO THE CITY COUNCIL THE APPROVAL OF THE PALM DESERT GENERAL PLAN. WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Palm Desert, California, did on the 3rd day of February, 1981, hold a duly noticed Public Hearing to consider the Public Hearing draft of the Palm Desert General Plan, dated November, 1980, which encompasses the total Palm Desert Planning Area as approved by the City Council; and, WHEREAS, the General Plan has complied with the requirements of the "City of the Palm Desert Procedures to Implement the California Environmental Quality Act, Resolution No. 80-89", in that final Environmental Impact Reports were presented at a duly noticed Public Hearing held February 3, 1981, and the Planning Commission recommended said reports to the City Council for certification as final Environmental Impact Reports to include: 1. the Draft EIRs. 2. Comments received on the Draft EIRs in writing or as a part of the public hearings. 3. The staff report prepared on the EIRs for the following reasons: a) the final EIRs are in compliance with the requirements of CEQA. b) The final EIRs do adequately address the environmental effects of the General Plan. WHEREAS, at said Public Hearing, upon hearing and considering the testimony and arguments of all persons desiring to be heard, said Planning Commission did find the following facts and reasons to exist to approve the General Plan; 1. The Palm Desert General Plan does comply to the requirements of the State Government Code. 2. The document as amended adequately represents a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the City and its planning area. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Planning Commission of the City of Palm Desert as follows: 1. That the above recitations are true and correct and constitute the findings of the Commission in this case. 2. That it does approve the Public Hearing draft of the Palm Desert General Plan, dated November, 1980, and recommends approval to the City Council as amended by the attachment labeled Exhibit "A" for the reasons set out in this resolution. PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Palm Desert Planning Commission, held on the 3rd day of February, 1981, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: ATTEST: AM A. DIAZ, /1r BERKEY, KRYDER, MCLACHLAN, RICHARDS NONE MILLER NONE ec try PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 681 Page Two PAGE III A 2 III A 2 LINE 18 19 EXHIBIT A LAND USE ELEMENT CHANGE Add after type "... due to seismic hazard". Delete and replace with: "This element identifies areas that could possibly ex- perience natural disaster, which can help determine which land uses and densities to allow". III A 3 13 Add: "The identification of noise areas can determine appropriate land uses and densities". III A 18 18 Replace "major streets" with "the area west of Cook Street and north of Country Club Drive". III A 18 21 Change "convertional" to "conventional" III A 19 3 Change "sections" to "areas". III A 19 12, 13 Change "the proposed alignment of Frank Sinatra Drive" to "Interstate 10". III A 19 18, 19 Delete "area between the proposed align- ments of Frank Sinatra Drive and 36th Avenue". III A 19 21 Add "Hillside densities pertain to developable portions of the hills". III A 19 22, 23 Delete III A 21 16 Delete "east". III A 21 17, 18 Delete "and north and south of Highway 111 at the eastern city limits". III A 23-A 25 - Delete text under F. ALTERNATIVE TO LAND USE PLAN FOR NORTH SPHERE AREA and Figure 3. III A 23 11 Add: "F. OFFICE/PROFESSIONAL: This use is proposed adjacent to the Regional Commercial area and adjacent to the Core Commercial area. This designation is intended to provide a use characterized by low traffic generation and intended to encourage low profile develop- ment compatible with surrounding or abutting residential districts. Low profile develop- ment is intended to mean that the structure will take on a residential character to its design. PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 681 Page Three TRANSPORTATION/CIRCULATION ELEMENT PAGE LINE CHANGE MAP 1 Change 36th Avenue from Major Thorough- fare to Arterial Street. III B 24 13 Add "To implement this policy Sunline Transit will receive requests for comments on project proposals located on potential fixed line bus routes". PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 681 Page Four URBAN DESIGN/SCENIC HIGHWAY ELEMENT PAGE LINE CHANGE Map pertain to developable portions of the hills". III C 27 27 Add " The stated densities on the Land Use Map, pertain to developable portions of the hills". III C 28 1 - 4 Replace with "the commercial district extends from the eastern City limits to the western City limits and consists of Highway 111 and El Paseo". III C 28 7 - 8 Delete "the types and their uses include". III C 33 11 - 12 Change "Central Portion" to "central portion" and add "of the district", after central portion. III C 34 10 Add "exists" after "now". III C 35 5 Replace with "have a dual designation of open space and medium residential density. The City will make an attempt to purchase the site, if funding becomes available". III C 36 26 Change "close to" to "approximately". III C 38 7 - 8 Delete "or very low (1-3 units per acre) or rural (1 unit per 5 acres)". III C 38 10 - 11 Replace "for either low and moderate income" with "lower cost". III C 39 6 Delete "the plan". III C 39 26 Replace "The yet unnamed park" to "Monterey Park, which will". PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 681 Page Five HOUSING ELEMENT PAGE LINE CHANGE IV A 4 19 Oeiete "structures and rehaoii1tation wriere°. IV A 6 13 Change "nean" to "mean". IV A 23 14 Change "moderage" to "moderate". IV A 25 9 Change "low and moderate income", to "lower cost". IV A 29 14 Change "low and moderate income" to "lower cost". IV A 30 2 Change "low and moderate income", to "lower cost". IV 30 14 Change "low and moderate income", to "lower cost". IV 30 17 Change "low and moderate income", to "lower cost". PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 681 Page Six r PAGE. IV IVB8 IV B 9 IV B 10 POPULATION/ECONOMICS ELEMENT LINE r1 ' 24 Change "Has" to "has". 17 Add "is approximately 4,800", after "seasonable population". Change "there" to "There". 20 Change "of which" to"factor". PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 681 Page Seven CONSERVATION/OPEN SPACE/RECREATION ELEMENT PAGE LINE V A 10 4 V A 22 16-17 V A 23 TABLE 2 Add "and maintain" after "for". Delete and replace with "have signed a lease allowing the City to develop approximately 15 acres of the proposed high school site for a sports complex". Change acreage of Palm Desert Community Center from "29" to "40". Change Subtotal of Existing Developed Sites from "40.8" to "51.8". Change "Sports Center" to "Sports Complex" and change acreage from "10" to "15". Change "Unnamed Park", to "Monterey Park". Change Proposed Sites Subtotal from "509.0", to "514.0". Change Total Sites Acreage from "621.3", to "636.3". V A 31 18 Change "partion" to "portion". V A 32 3 Add: "The City should consider the adoption of an Ordinance to develop the mechanics by which historic and cultural resources may be identified, preserved, protected and enhanced, if said ordinance is deemed necessary upon completion of a comprehensive survey of historic sites. V A 37 19 Change "basketbell", to "basketball". PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 681 Page Eight ENERGY ELEMENT V B 2 18 Delete "low and moderate and". PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 681 Page Nine SEISMIC SAFETY ELEMENT PAGE LINE CHANGE inL.usion o ;,;Aolic . documents is not intended to put the City in the position of being an additional approving or monitoring agency for the utilities, although local standards should be met. It is recognized that the California Energy and Public Utilities Commissions have pre-empted local jurisdiction over the regulation of public utilities. However, both Commissions are required to seek local input to their approval of construction and operating procedures for public utilities. Inclusion of public utilities in this Element is intended to provide part of that comment. V D 2 20 Add after Element: "The Technical Report is accepted by the City of Palm Desert, but is not adopted as part of this Element. The design criteria and seismic response criteria presented in the report, are one of several possible interpretations. V D 12 Add between paragraphs 1 and 2: "The following definitions are used in the discussion of critical, essential and normal facilities: Critical: includes uses whose collapse poses extreme, if not catastrophic, hazards to life, property and community functioning. Collapse of these structures or facilities is clearly unacceptable, and the highest level of safety is mandatory. Critical structures and facilities may suffer some damage in a natural disaster, but must not pose a threat to human life. Essential: includes uses whose collapse could severely impair the community's ability to recover from a natural disaster. It is recognized that there may be some temporary service disruptions because of damage to individual facilities; however, these should not impair the community's recovery since delivery system as a whole, should continue supplying essential services. Normal High Risk: includes structures of facilities which because of high occupancy, or potential use in disaster response operations, should not collapse and should afford occupants a high level of safety. Some damage, including structural, and injury may occur, but loss of life should be rare. Normal Low Risk: includes the vast majority of structures. Structures should resist minor earthquakes without damage, resist moderate earthquakes without structural damage (although nonstructural damage may occur), and resist major earthquakes, of the intensity or severity of the strongest experienced in California, without collapse, but with some structural as well as nonstructural damage". continued... PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 681 Page Ten PAGE LINE V D 13 FIGURE 3 VD22 7 CHANGE Retitle exhibit to: "Taxonomy of Critical and Essential Facilities". Change to read "public utility facilicics .