City of Hermosa Beach: Public Hearing, 14-1347, PC 07-03-14, PC 07-15-14

City of Hermosa Beach

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Public Works Commission of the City of Hermosa Beach shall hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, to consider the following:

1. Permit to remove a tree at 670 Gould Avenue, Hermosa Beach.

SAID PUBLIC HEARING shall be held at 7:00 P.M., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heardin the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 1315 Valley Drive, Hermosa Beach, CA90254.

ANY AND ALL PERSONS interested are invited to participate and speak at this hearing at the above time and place.  All written comments will be accepted prior to or at the scheduled time on the agenda for the matter.  Please submit your written comments to the City of Hermosa Beach Public Works Department, 1315 Valley Drive, Hermosa Beach, CA  90254.

IFYOU CHALLENGE the above matter(s) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Public Works Department, at, or prior to, the public hearing.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, please contact the Public Works Department, at (310) 318-0238 or email fsenteno@hermosabch.org.  The Department is open from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday.  A copy of the staff report in the Commission packet will be available for public review at the end of the business day on, Thursday, July 10, 2014at the Hermosa Beach Public Works Department and on the City’s website at www.hermosabch.org.

Elaine Doerfling

City Clerk

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ORDINANCE NO. 14-1347

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORIZING THE ERECTION OF EXTENDED TEMPORARY SIGNS BY AUTOMOBILE DEALERS FOR A ONE-YEAR PERIOD AND SUPERSEDING ANY PROVISIONS OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE INCONSISTENT THEREWITH

The City Council of the City of Hermosa Beach does hereby ordain as follows:

SECTION 1.Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Zoning Ordinance, extended temporary signs are permitted for on-site identification purposes for automobile dealers located on Pacific Coast Highway for a period of one year from the effective date of this Ordinance.  Extended temporary signs shall be treated as temporary signs under Section 17.50.030 of the Hermosa Beach Municipal Code and Section 5497(g) of the California Business and Professions Code, subject to compliance with the standards set forth in Section 2 hereof.

SECTION 2.Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Municipal Code governing temporary signs, the following regulations shall govern the display of extended temporary signs:

1.  Extended temporary signs shall be permitted only at automobile dealerships with frontage on Pacific Coast Highway.

2.  The total square footage of all extended temporary signs shall not exceed one hundred (100) square feet. Only one face of a double-face sign shall be counted when determining sign area.

3.  Extended temporary signs shall exclusively identify businesses that principally sell automobiles operating on the same premises and shall contain no other advertising whatsoever. Extended temporary signs shall include only the name of the business and/or the product or service provided by the business at that location.

4.  The maximum height of pole or freestanding extended temporary signs shall be twenty (20) feet above grade.

5.  Extended temporary signs shall be professionally produced using high quality materials.

6.  Extended temporary signs shall be securely attached, shall not create a hazard or nuisance, and shall be maintained in a clean condition, free of rips, tears, holes, and graffiti.

7.  The allowance for extended temporary signs is in addition to temporary signage otherwise allowed by Municipal Code Section 17.50.210.

8.  No extended temporary sign shall be displayed until an application for an extended temporary sign is made in writing on forms furnished and approved by the building official. Such application shall contain the location, type of materials, square footage, and height of the proposed extended temporary sign(s), as well as the name and address of the business owner.

SECTION 3.This Ordinance does not create a vested right to continued display of extended temporary signs beyond the expiration of this Ordinance, or otherwise alter the character of such signs as anything other than “temporary” within the meaning of Section 17.50.030 of the Hermosa Beach Municipal Code and Section 5497(g) of the California Business and Professions Code.  Upon the expiration of this Ordinance, extended temporary signs shall be treated as temporary signs displayed beyond the authorized duration and shall be immediately removed by the business owner or subject to removal without compensation by the City pursuant to Business and Professions Code Section 5497(g).

SECTION 4.This Ordinance and the regulations set forth herein shall remain in effect until July 25, 2015, at which time they shall expire and be of no further force and effect.

SECTION 5.  Pursuant to the California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1094.6, any legal challenge to the decision of the City Council must be made within 90 days after the final decision by the City Council.

SECTION 6.That prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the date of its adoption, the City Clerk shall cause the Ordinance to be published in the Easy Reader, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Hermosa Beach.

SECTION 7.The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance, shall enter the same in the book of original ordinances of said City; shall make minutes of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council at which the same is passed and adopted.

PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 24th day of June, 2014 by the following vote:

AYES:Barragan, Petty, Mayor pro tem Tucker

NOES:Fangary

ABSENT:Mayor DiVirgilio

ABSTAIN:None

Peter Tucker

MAYORPRO TEMof the City Council of the City of Hermosa Beach, California

ATTEST:

Elaine Doerfling

City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

Michael Jenkins

City Attorney

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City of Hermosa Beach

NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF ENVIRONMENTAL NEGATIVE DECLARATION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Hermosa Beach has prepared a Draft Negative Declaration and is providing a public review period of 30 days ending August 2, 2014 for the following project:

Amendment to General Plan Land Use Map from General Commercial (GC) to Low Density Residential (LD) and amendment to Zoning Map from General Commercial (C-3) to One-Family Residential (R-1) on a 7500+ square foot parcel located at 1222-1230 Corona Street (Assessor Parcel Numbers 4185-016- 015, 018 and 032).

The Draft Negative Declaration can be viewed online: http://www.hermosabch.org/index.aspx?page=672. No potentially significant effects and no mitigation measures are identified.

Comments on said document should be submitted to Pamela Townsend, Senior Planner, City of Hermosa Beach, Community Development Department, 1315 Valley Drive, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254, or by email to: ptownsend@hermosabch.org no later than August 2, 2014. For more information or to review the document please contact the Community Development Department, Planning Division, at (310) 318-0242, from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

Elaine Doerfling
City Clerk
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City of Hermosa Beach

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Planning Commission of the City of Hermosa Beach shall hold a public hearing on Tuesday,July 15, 2014, to consider the following:

1. Amendment to Precise Development Plan to reconfigure offices, decks, and stairways together with façade and elevation changes in a multi-tenant building at 1301 Manhattan Avenue, and determination that the project is Categorically Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (continued from the May 20 and June 17, 2014 meetings).

1. Precise Development Plan, Conditional Use Permit and Parking Plan to allow a mixed-use development consisting of an approximately 570 square foot commercial space and 2,800 square foot residential unit with tandem commercial and reduced width parking spaces in the C-1 zone at 60 Hermosa Avenue, and determination that the project is Categorically Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act(continued from the June 17, 2014 meeting).

1. Conditional Use Permit, Precise Development Plan and Vesting Tentative Parcel Map No. 72838 for a two-unit condominium at 438 Hermosa Avenue, and determination that the project is Categorically Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act(continued from the June 17, 2014 meeting).

1. Conditional Use Permit, Precise Development Plan and Vesting Tentative Parcel Map No. 72883 for a two-unit condominium at 605-607 Longfellow Avenue, and determination that the project is Categorically Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act(continued from the June 17, 2014 meeting).

1. Residential Parking Plan to reduce the required width of the guest parking space from 8 feet, 6 inches to approximately 7 feet, 10 inches, and recognizing that parking is also available in the OS-O zoned portion of the property, in conjunction with an existing single-family dwelling at 340 The Strand, and determination that the project is CategoricallyExempt from the California Environmental Quality Act.

1. Conditional Use Permit, Precise Development Plan and Vesting Tentative Parcel Map No. 72717 for a seven-unit condominium at 1818, 1830 & 1834 Pacific Coast Highway, and determination that the project is Categorically Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act.

1. Precise development plan to allow a two-story 5,250 square foot commercial building with three tenant spaces at 2101 Pacific Coast Highway, and determination that the project is Categorically Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act.

1. Precise development plan to allow a one-story 2,769 square foot commercial building at 1081, 1085 &1087 Aviation Boulevard, and determination that the project is Categorically Exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act.

SAID PUBLIC HEARINGS shall be held at 7:00 P.M., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard,in the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 1315 Valley Drive, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

ANY AND ALL PERSONS interested are invited to participate and speak at these hearings at the above time and place.  For inclusion in the agenda packet to be distributed, written comments of interested parties should be submitted to the Community Development Department, Planning Division, in care of City Hall at 1315 Valley Drive, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 prior to Thursday, July 10, 2014, at 12:00 noon.  All written testimony by any interested party will be accepted prior to or at the scheduled time on the agenda for the matter.

IFYOU CHALLENGE the above matter(s) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Community Development Department, Planning Division, at, or prior to, the public hearing.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, please contact the Community Development Department, Planning Division, at (310) 318-0242 or fax to (310) 937-6235.  The Department is open from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday.  Please contact a staff planner to discuss any project on the Planning Commission agenda.  A copy of the staff report(s) in the Planning Commission packet will be available for public review at the end of the business day on Thursday, July 10, 2014, at the Hermosa Beach Police Department, Public Library, and on the City’s website at www.hermosabch.org.  Relevant Municipal Code sections are also available on the website.

Elaine Doerfling

City Clerk

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