HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC RES 81-040CITY COUP�CIL RESOLUTION N0. 81-40
A RESOLUTIOIJ OF THE CITY COUP�CIL OF THE CITY OF
PALh1 DESERT, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING TF�E PAL�1 DESERT
GE�JERAL PLAN.
CASE N0. GPA 01-80
WHEREAS, the City Council did hold a duly noticed Public Hearing on
March 12, 1981, and continued Public Hearings on P1arch 26, 1981 and April 9,
1981, 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;
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Palm Desert, after a
duly noticed Public Hearing on February 3, ]981, did by Planning Commission
Resolution No. 681, recommend approval of the General Plan as amended;
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission on referral from City Council, did.;
consider Council initiated revisions to the Draft General Plan on �larch 31,
1981; '
WHEREAS, the General Plan has complied with the requirements of the
"City of Palm Desert Procedures to Implement the California Environmental Quality
Act, Resolution f�o. 80-89", in that final Environmental Impact Reports were
presented at a duly noticed Public Hearing held on March 12, 1981, and the City
Council at the close of the Public Hearing, did certify said reports as the
Final Environmental Impact Reports on this project 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 require-
ments 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 testi-
mony and arguments of all persons desiring to be heard, said City Council did
find the following facts and reasons to exist to ap�rove the General Plan;
1. The Palm Desert General Plan does comply to the require-
ments of the State Government Code.
2. The document as amended adequately represents a comprehen-
sive, long-term General Plan for the physical development
of the City and its planning area.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Palm
Desert as follows:
1.
2.
That the above recitations are true and correct and constitute
the findings of the Commission in this case.
That it does approve the Public Hearing draft of the Palm Desert
General Plan, dated November, 19II0, as amended by the attachment
labeled Exhibit "A" for the reasons set out in this resolution.
3. That said approval does not include the sites currently designated
as Resort Commercial, as depicted in the amended 1975 General Plan,
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PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Palm Desert
CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION N0. 81-40
PAGE TWO
City Council, held on the 9th day of Aqril , 1981, by the following vote,
to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
ATTEST:
McPherson, Newbrander, Snyder & Wilson
Puluqi
None
None
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EXHIBIT A
LAND USE ELEMEPJT
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PAGE THREE
Add after type "... due to seismic hazard".
19 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".
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18
21
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12, 13
Add: "The identification of noise areas
can determine appropriate land uses and
densities".
Replace "major streets" with "the area west
of Cook Street and north of Country Club
Drive".
Change "convertional" to "conventional"
Change "sections" to "areas".
Change "the proposed alignment of Frank
Sinatra Drive" to "Interstate 10".
18, 19 Delete "area between the proposed align-
ments of Frank Sinatra Drive and 36th
Avenue".
21 Add "Hillside densities pertain to
developable portions of the hills".
22, 23
16
Delete
Delete "east".
17, 18 Delete "and north and south of Highway
111 at the eastern city limits".
- Delete text under F. ALTERNATIVE TO LAND
USE PLAN FOR �JORTH SPHERE AREA and Figure
3.
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.
RESOLUT ION NO . 81- 40
TR�INSPORTATION/CIRCULATION ELEt�IENT
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MAP 1
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CHANGE
PAGE �OUR
Change 36th Avenue from Major Thorough-
fare to Arterial Street.
Add "To implement this policy Sunline
Transit will receive requests for comments
on project proposals located on qotential
fixed line bus routes".
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PAGE FIVE
CHANGE
Add "The stated densities on the Land Use
�1ap pertain to developable portions of the
hills".
Add " The stated densities on the Land Use
Map, pertain to developable portions of the
hills".
Replace with "the commercial district
extends from the eastern City limits to the
western City limits and consists of Highway
111 and El Paseo".
Delete "the types and their uses include".
Change "Central Portion" to "central portion"
and add "of the district", after central
portion.
Add "exists" after "now".
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".
Change "close to" to "approximately".
Delete "or very low (1-3 units per acre) or
rural (1 unit per 5 acres)".
Replace "for either low and moderate income"
with "lower cost".
Delete "the plan".
Replace "The yet unnamed park" to "Monterey
Park, which will".
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PAGE SIX
HOUSING ELEh1ENT
CHANGE
Delete "structures and rehabilitation where".
Change "nean" to "mean".
Change "moderage" to "r�oderate".
Change "low and moderate income", to "lower
cost".
Change "low and moderate income" to "lower
cost".
Change "low and moderate income", to "lower
COSt".
Change "low and moderate income", to "lower
cost".
Change "low and moderate income", to "lower
cost". �
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PAGE SEVEN
POPULATION/ECOi��OMICS ELEME�JT
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IV B 10
LI��E CHAPdGE
24 Change "Has" to "has".
17 Add "is approximately 4,800", after
"seasonable population". Change "there"
to "There".
20 Change "of which" to"factor".
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V A 22
V A 23
V A 31
V A 32
V A 37
CONSERVATIONJOPEN SPACE/RECREATION ELEt�4ENT
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16 - 17
TABLE 2
18
3
19
CHANGE
PAGE EIGHT
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 "��onterey Park".
Change Proposed Sites Subtotal from "509.0",
to "514.0".
Change Total Sites Acreage from "621.3",
to "636.3".
Change "partion" to "portion".
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.
Change "basketbell", to "basketball".
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ENERGY ELEP1ENT
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U B 2 18 Delete "low and moderate and".
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SEIS��tIC SAFETY ELEMENT
CHAPJGE
PAGE TEN
Add between paragraphs 3 and 4: "The
inclusion of public utilities in these
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.
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.
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 cortununity 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...
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CHANGE
PAr,E ELEVEN
Retitle exhibit to: "Taxonomy of Critical
and Essential Facilities".
Change to read "public utility facilities".