R-10540City Council Meeting 11-9-10
Santa Monica, California
RESOLUTION NUMBER insao (CCS)
(City Council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA TO CLARIFY THAT THE CITY'S RESOURCE
RECOVERY CENTER'S DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PERMIT (09-DR-005)
APPLICATION SHALL BE REVIEWED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA'S 1984 LAND USE AND CIRCULATION ELEMENTS AND LAND USE MAP
IN EFFECT ON MAY 11.2010.
WHEREAS, the City has entered into apublic/private partnership with Southern
California Disposal (SCD) and Allan Company to improve the City's solid waste
operations; and
WHEREAS, this partnership resulted in a proposal for a comprehensive site plan
for the City Resource Recovery Center that includes the existing City Transfer Station at
2500 Michigan Avenue and SCD Transfer Station at 1908 Frank Street; and
WHEREAS, the proposed Resource Recovery Center design includes enclosing
facilities currently operated without any cover thereby limiting impacts associated with
noise and odors among others, improving dust control, providing sound and landscape
buffers between the facility and the Mountain View Mobile Home Park and Stewart
Park, enhancing vehicle circulation, creating a more efficient facility without increasing
the total tonnage entering the area, and improving the overall aesthetics to the area;
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WHEREAS, the diversion of recyclable materials from the waste stream will
contribute to creating a more sustainable City, and by providing an improved central
location for the efficient transfer of construction and demolition debris, green waste, and
food waste from both city collection trucks, private haulers, contractors, and residents,
the amount of solid waste being delivered to local landfills from the City can be reduced;
and
WHEREAS, although the proposed improvements are being pursued as a
partnership between the City and SCD, the two projects sites are located on separate
properties and owned by separate entities, thereby requiring separate entitlements for
each respective location and improvement; and
WHEREAS, the proposed improvements at the Resource Recovery Center
required amendments to the General Plan Land Use Map changing the land use
designation from its then current Special Office District designation to an Industrial
Conservation district designation, an amendment to the Land Use Element to modify the
maximum building height in the Industrial Conservation District for certain projects, and
amendments to the Zoning Ordinance in the M1 and LMSD district to modify the
existing height limits to accommodate the necessary improvements and to exempt
these improvements from the building volume envelope requirements of Section
9.04.10.02.040; and
WHEREAS, the proposed development also required that SCD obtain a parking
variance for the SCD Transfer Station addition and that the City obtain a Development
Review permit (09-DR-005) for the City Transfer Station improvements; and
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WHEREAS, on April 21, 2010, the Planning Commission reviewed and
recommended adoption of the proposed General Plan Land Use Map amendments, the
Land Use Element text amendment, and the Zoning Ordinance text amendments; and
WHEREAS, on the same date, the Planning Commission approved the parking
variance for the SCD Transfer Station addition, but continued the Development Review
permit application for the City Transfer Station improvements; and
WHEREAS, on May 11, 2010, the City Council reviewed the proposed project
and adopted the proposed General Plan Land Use Map amendment changing the
designation from Special Office District to Industrial Conservation District and the
proposed General Plan Text amendment to authorize a maximum height of 45 feet in
the Industrial Conservation District for existing solid waste transfer stations, material
recovery facilities, and public utility service centers and improvements thereto; and
WHEREAS, on the same date, the City Council introduced the Zoning Text
amendments for first reading which, in part, allowed existing solid waste transfer
stations, material recovery facilities, and public utility service facilities in the M1 zone to
reach a height of 45 feet and to be exempt from additional building volume setbacks
above 30 feet in height as otherwise required by Santa Monica Municipal Code Section
9.04.10.02.040 since such setbacks would limit the open air volume within these
structures necessary to perform their intended function; and
WHEREAS, on May 26, 2010, the City Council adopted the proposed Zoning text
amendments, Ordinance Number 2312 (CCS), which did not become effective until
June 26, 2010; and
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WHEREAS, on July 6, 2010, the City Council adopted the November 24, 2009
Santa Monica Draft Land Use & Circulation Element, as corrected on February 24, 2010
for minor typographical errors ("Draft LUCE"), and as further modified by the Council, as
the official Land Use and Circulation Element of the General Plan for the City of Santa
Monica ("LUCE") and thus replaced the City of Santa Monica's Land Use and
Circulation Elements and Land Use Map originally adopted in 1984 .and periodically
revised thereafter; and
WHEREAS, the LUCE provides that the portions of a building fagade higher than
the street frontage shall step back from the fagade of the floor below similar to the
established stepback standards of the Zoning Ordinance in effect as of May 27, 2010;
and
WHEREAS, although the Resource Recovery Center is generally consistent with
all other LUCE policies, the LUCE building fagade provision does not incorporate
Ordinance Number 2312 (CCS); and
WHEREAS, the DR permit application is scheduled to be reviewed again by the
City's Planning. Commission, but there is uncertainty as to its processing in light of the
recently adopted LUCE; and
WHEREAS; the City Council did not intend for a project such as the Resource
Recovery Center, which had already received Council approval for specific general plan
and zoning text amendments and which had already undergone initial Planning
Commission review, including the adoption of a Mitigated Negative Declaration, to be
required to comply with conflicting provisions of the LUCE which was adopted little more
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than a month after the Council's review of the project's proposed general plan and
zoning text amendments; and
WHEREAS, the purpose of this resolution is to clarify that the Resource
Recovery Center is not subject to review in accordance with the recently adopted
LUCE, but shall instead be reviewed in accordance with the City of Santa Monica's
Land Use and Circulation Elements and Land Use Map originally adopted in 1984 and
periodically revised thereafter,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding Resolution No. 10508 (CCS), the Resource
Recovery Center's Development Review Permit (09DR-005) shall be reviewed for
consistency with the City of Santa Monica's Land Use and Circulation Elements and
Land Use Map originally adopted in 1984 and periodically revised thereafter, including
the amendments to the Land Use Element and Land Use Map approved by the City
Council on May 11, 2010.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and
thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Adopted and approved this 9t" day of
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3obby Shri er, Mayor
I, Maria M. S#ewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Resolution No. 10540 (CCS) was duly adopted at a meeting of the Santa
Monica City Council held on the 9t" day of November, 2010, by the following vote:
Ayes: Counciimembers: Bloom, Davis, Holbrook, O'Day, McKeown
Mayor Pro Tem O'Connor, Mayor Shriver
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Counciimembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: None
ATTEST:
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Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk