CC RESOLUTION 5090 RESOLUTION NO. 5090
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL
SEGUNDO APPROVING A NEGATIVE DECLARATION UNDER THE
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT NO. EA-1218, GENERAL PLAN
AMENDMENT NO. GPA 18-01 AND ZONE TEXT AMENDMENT NO. ZTA
18-01; AND ADOPTING GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 18-01 TO
AMEND THE LAND USE ELEMENT OF THE GENERAL PLAN
PERTAINING TO CORPORATE OFFICE.
The City Council of the City of EI Segundo does hereby resolve as follows:
SECTION 1: The City Council does hereby finds and declares that:
A. On February 14, 2018, Marcos A. Neri initiated the process to amend Title 15 of the
Municipal Code in order to allow dry cleaners in the Corporate Office (CO) Zone;
B. The project applications were reviewed by the City's Planning and Building Safety
Department for, in part, consistency with the General Plan and conformity with the
EI Segundo Municipal Code (ESMC);
C. The City reviewed the project's environmental impacts under the California
Environmental Quality Act (California Public Resources Code §§ 21000, et seq.,
"CEQA") and the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 California Code of
Regulations §§ 15000, et seq., the "CEQA Guidelines");
D. On May 24, 2018, the Planning Commission held a public hearing to receive public
testimony and other evidence regarding the application including information
provided by city staff, and adopted PC Resolution No. 2836 recommending that the
City Council approve the proposed amendments;
E. On June 19, 2018, the City Council held a public hearing and considered the
information provided by City staff and public testimony regarding this Ordinance;
and,
F. This Resolution and its findings are made based upon the entire administrative
record including testimony and evidence presented to the City Council at its June
19, 2018 public hearing and the staff report submitted by the Planning and Building
Safety Department.
SECTION 2: Factual Findings and Conclusions. The City Council finds that the following
facts exist:
A. Zone Text Amendment No. 18-01, considered concurrently with this Resolution,
amends Section 15-5D-2 (Permitted Uses) by allowing office worker-oriented
services in the CO Zone, provided they are not located on properties fronting Pacific
Coast Highway or EI Segundo Boulevard.
B. The CO Zone is intended to provide for the development of offices, and principal
uses are restricted to a mixture of office and food serving uses with limited retail.
Zone Text Amendment No. 18-01 expands the allowable uses in the CO Zone by
including service uses that are supportive to office workers, complimentary to the
allowable uses in the CO Zone, and are consistent with the character of the CO
Zone.
C. General Plan Amendment No. 18-01 amends the Corporate Office sections of the
Land Use Element to include language that broadens the types of uses allowed to
include uses that offer services to office workers and the office environment.
D. Zone Text Amendment No. 18-01 amends Section 15-5D-3 (Permitted Accessory
Uses) by allowing bike-share docking stations as a permitted accessory use in the
CO Zone, and thereby facilitating their installation. Bike-share docking stations can
be accommodated on properties within the CO Zone, provides an additional
amenity to workers and visitors in the zone, and provides and promotes bicycles as
an alternative to automobiles as a mode of mobility.
E. Zone Text Amendment No. 18-01 amends Section 15-5D-5 (Uses Subject to
Conditional Use Permit) by deleting freight forwarding use from this section, thereby
becoming a prohibited use in the CO Zone. Freight forwarding is not consistent
with the purpose and intent of the CO Zone.
SECTION 3: Environmental Assessment. The proposed project was analyzed for its
environmental impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources
Code §§ 21000, et seq., "CEQA"), and the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 Cal.
Code of Regulations §§15000, et seq., the "CEQA Guidelines"). The City prepared an
Initial Study of Environmental Impacts pursuant to CEQA Guidelines § 15063. A Negative
Declaration of Environmental Impacts is proposed for this project pursuant to CEQA
Guidelines §15070.
The IS/ND concluded that the project will not result in or create any significant impacts, or
have less than significant impacts to aesthetics; agriculture and forestry resources; air
quality; geology/soils; greenhouse gas emissions; hazards/hazardous materials;
hydrology/water quality; land use; mineral resources; noise; population and housing;
public services; recreation; biological resources; cultural resources; transportation/traffic;
and, utilities.
The IS/ND prepared for this Project reflects the City's independent judgment and analysis,
and the City Council finds that there is no substantial evidence that the Project would have
a significant impact on the environment to warrant mitigation measures, nor is there any
need to prepare an environmental impact report for the proposed project.
SECTION 4: Adoption. The City Council adopts General Plan Amendment No. 18-01, as
outlined in the attached Exhibits A and B, which are incorporated herein by this reference.
SECTION 5: Reliance On Record. Each and every one of the findings and determination
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in this Resolution are based on the competent and substantial evidence, both oral and
written, contained in the entire record relating to the project. The findings and
determinations constitute the independent findings and determinations of the City Council
in all respects and are fully and completely supported by substantial evidence in the record
as a whole.
SECTION 0: Limitations. The City Council's analysis and evaluation of the project is
based on the best information currently available. It is inevitable that in evaluating a project
that absolute and perfect knowledge of all possible aspects of the project will not exist.
One of the major limitations on analysis of the project is the City Council's lack of
knowledge of future events. In all instances, best efforts have been made to form accurate
assumptions. Somewhat related to this are the limitations on the city's ability to solve what
are in effect regional, state, and national problems and issues. The City must work within
the political framework within which it exists and with the limitations inherent in that
framework.
SECTION 7: Summaries of Information. All summaries of information in the findings,
which precede this section, are based on the substantial evidence in the record. The
absence of any particular fact from any such summary is not an indication that a particular
finding is not based in part on that fact.
SECTION 8: Severability. If any part of this Resolution or its application is deemed invalid
by a court of competent jurisdiction, the City Council intends that such invalidity will not
affect the effectiveness of the remaining provisions or applications and, to this end, the
provisions of this Ordinance are severable.
SECTION 9: The City Clerk is directed to certify the adoption of this Resolution, record
this Resolution in the book of the City's original resolutions, and make a minute of this
adoption of the Resolution in the City Council's records and the minutes of this meeting.
SECTION 10: This Resolution will become effective immediately and will remain effective
unless repealed or superseded.
SECTION 11: A copy of this Resolution must be mailed to applicant Marcos A. Ned, and
to any other person requesting a copy.
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PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 5090 this 19th day of June,
2018.
Drp/"v oyN ...l r
ATTEST:
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Tracy
U/AVNi.r,wCity Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Mark D. Hensley i Attorney
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Resolution No. 5090
Exhibit A
EI Segundo General Plan Land Use Element
Land Use Designations
Revise the following paragraph on page 3-7, as illustrated below
"Commercial Designations
Corporate Office
Permits a mixture of office and food-serving uses in single-tenant or multi-tenant buildings
with limited retail uses permitted in the lobby area. Research and development uses are
permitted east ofa(: fi Q.Qa iglIw-aySe my B ;►-l+everd. The maximum allowed floor
area are nottio l tg .Ilar Pc�f� C,past Highway-
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of 1.086 is permitted for the property commonly referred to as 888 North Pacific pp-st
_iC l! ,Y p4v •-Be44Nevard (Assessor's Parcel Number 4138-005-055), pursuant to
Development Agreement No. 00-2. (Ord. 1331, GPA 00-2, 3/20/01)"
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Exhibit B
EI Segundo General Plan Land Use Element
Proposed Land Use Plan
Revise the following paragraph(s) on pages 3-10 and 3-11 as illustrated below
"Northeast Quadrant
On the 1992 Land Use Plan, the majority of the northeast quadrant is designated either
Corporate Office (193.4 ac) or Urban Mixed-Use (232.5 ac). The Corporate Campus
Specific Plan (46.5 ac) also allows a mixture of office and commercial uses. Corporate
Office allows a mixture of office uses with retail in the lobby. Corporate Office also allows
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lial' wav or EI Sesundo Boulevard. This designation covers the "Superblock Area" and
All allow uses similar to those currently in that area.
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CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Tracy Weaver, City Clerk of the City of EI Segundo, California, do hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing
Resolution No. 5090 was duly passed, approved and adopted by said City Council at a
regular meeting held on the 19th day of June, 2018, approved and signed by the Mayor,
and attested to by the City Clerk, by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Boyles, Mayor Pro Tem Pirsztuk, Council Member Brann, Council
Member Pimentel, and Council Member Nicol
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
WITNESS MY HAND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY this leqlday of August,
2018.
Tra Weaver City Clerk
of the City of EI Segundo,
California