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FROM: Arnold B.Jonas, Community Development Director o
Prepared By: Pam Ricci,Associate Planner PR
SUBJECT:
R 132-98 - Consideration of a request by Atoll Holdings Inc. to amend the City's zoning
map designation from M, Manufacturing, to M-MU, Manufacturing with the Mixed Use
overlay zoning, for property located on the northwest side of Laurel Lane,just north of
Orcutt Road(1150 Laurel Lane).
CAO RECOMMENDATION
Grant final passage to Ordinance No.1350, approving a Negative Declaration with
Mitigation Measures, and amending the zoning map from M to M-MU for property
located at 1150 Laurel Lane, based on findings.
DISCUSSION
Situation
On April 6, 1999, the City Council introduced Ordinance No.1350 to print, approving the
requested MU rezoning. Ordinance No. 1350 is now ready for final passage. The new
zoning designation will become effective 30 days after its final passage.
Significant Impacts
The City Council approved a Negative Declaration with Mitigation Measures for the
proposed MU rezoning on April 6, 1999, which concluded that the project will not have a
significant adverse impact on the environment, subject to the mitigation measures
included in Initial Study ER 132-98 being incorporated into the project.
Consequences of Not Taking the Recommended Action
If the council does not give final passage to the ordinance, the site zoning would remain
M, Manufacturing, and the applicant would not be able to lease tenant spaces to certain
types of large professional offices, or establish other requested uses at the site including
retail sales and repair of bicycles, specialty retail sales, museums, and elementary
schools, subject to the restrictions stipulated in Use Permit U 132-98.
Attached: Ordinance No.1350
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ORDINANCE NO. 1350 (1999 Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
AMENDING THE ZONING MAP FROM MANUFACTURING (M)
TO MANUFACTURING WITH THE MIXED USE OVERLAY ZONE (M-MU)
FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1150 LAUREL LANE (R 132-98)
WHEREAS,the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on February 10, 1999,
and ultimately recommended approval of the rezoning (R 132-98) to change the designation on
the City's zoning map from M, Manufacturing, to M-MU, Manufacturing with the Mixed Use
overlay zoning, for property located at 1150 Laurel Lane; and
WHEREAS, the City Council conducted a public hearing on, April 6, 1999, and has
considered testimony of the applicant, interested parties,the records of the Planning Commission
hearings and actions, and the evaluation and recommendation of staff; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the proposed rezoning is consistent with the
General Plan and other applicable City ordinances; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has considered the draft Negative Declaration of
environmental impact with Mitigation Measures as prepared by staff and reviewed by the
Planning Commission.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of San Luis Obispo as follows:
SECTION 1. Environmental Determination. The City Council finds and determines that
the project's Negative Declaration with Mitigation Measures adequately addresses the potential
significant environmental impacts of the proposed rezoning, and reflects the independent
judgment of the City Council. The Council hereby adopts said Negative Declaration with
Mitigation Measures.
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Ordinance No. 1350 (1999 Series)
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SECTION 2. Findines. That this Council, after consideration of the proposed rezoning
from M, Manufacturing, to M-MU, Manufacturing with the Mixed Use overlay, makes the
following findings:
1. The proposed rezoning is consistent with the goals and policies of the General Plan,
specifically Land Use Element Policy 3.7, Mixed Uses, which states that "Compatible mixed
uses in commercial districts should be supported. "
2. The planned development of the site and proposed uses will comply with the MU zone, are
compatible with each other and their surroundings, and are consistent with the General Plan
(SLO Municipal Code Section 17.55.020C.). These uses include the allowed, and
conditionally allowed, uses for the M zone listed in the zoning regulations, as well as large
offices, retail sales and repair of bicycles, specialty retail sales, museums, and elementary
schools, subject to the restrictions stipulated in Use Permit U 132-98.
3. The project is consistent with the purpose of the Mixed Use overlay zone which is to allow
the combining of uses on a site which otherwise would not be allowed or required.
4. The project's location or access arrangements do not significantly direct traffic to use local or
collector streets in residential zones.
5. The project allows some large offices at the site, will not affect potential impacts related to
noise, light and glare, and loss of privacy,among others, imposed by commercial activities on
nearby residential areas.
6. The project does not preclude industrial or service commercial uses in areas especially suited
for such uses when compared with offices.
7. The project does not create a shortage of C-S and M-zoned land available for service
commercial or industrial development.
8. A Negative Declaration with Mitigation Measures was prepared by the Community
Development Department on January 12, 1999, which describes significant environmental
impacts associated with the proposed rezoning and associated project development. The
Negative Declaration concludes that the project will not have a significant adverse impact on
the environment subject to the mitigation measures shown in the attached initial study ER
132-98 being incorporated into the project.
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Ordinance No. 1350 (1999 Series)
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SECTION 3. Action. The request to change the City's zoning map designation from M,
Manufacturing, to M-MU, Manufacturing with the Mixed Use overlay zoning, for property
located at 1150 Laurel Lane, is hereby approved.
SECTION 4. Adoption.
1. The zoning map is hereby amended as shown in Exhibit A-
2. The Community Development Director shall cause the change to be reflected in
documents which are on display in City Hall and are available for public viewing and use.
SECTION 5. A summary of this ordinance, together with the names of Council members
voting for and against, shall be published at least five (5) days prior to its final passage, in the
Telegram-Tribune, a newspaper published and circulated in this City. This ordinance shall go
into effect at the expiration of thirty (30) days after its final passage.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED TO PRINT by the Council of the City of San Luis
Obispo at its meeting held on the 6th day of April 1999, on a motion of
Council Member Ewan seconded by Vice Mayor Romero , and on the
following roll call vote:
AYES: Council Members Ewan and Marx,and Vice Mayor Romero
NOES: Council Member Schwartz
ABSENT: Mayor Settle
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Ordinance No. 1350 (1999 Series)
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Mayor Allen Settle
ATTEST:
Lee Price, City Clerk
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Copies: Pam Ricci,Arnold Jonas, John Dunn
It is my intention to pull items C-2 and C-3 for further discussion. I continue to feel very
strongly that any expansion of`large offices"into other Land Use zones needs to be
conditioned much more carefully than what is proposed in these two requests.
Background
At my request, Pam Ricci provided me with a copy of the 1986 Office Supply and
Demand Studv performed by the consultant QUAD Engineering.. While I haven't read it
word for word, it does contain much interesting information including a `summary matrix'
(1-1). In my quick reading of the report I can not find any discussion about the resultant
land use patterns that are created by the location of large offices willy-nilly throughout the
com>mmity;e.g.: the ripple effect analogous to dropping a stone into a pool There are
significant side effects to land use patterns that occur where large concentrations of office
workers are located. We need to be alert to these ramifications.
Pam also provided me with a map entitled Large Offices in the C-S and M Zones.
Consent item C-3 is one of the nine locations shown. Of the other eight, all but one are
PD and that one is M-SP. I don't know just what action a prior Council took in receiving
this QUAD report or what direction it may have given to staff,but it seems evident to me
that we are not attending to the problem of large office needs in a comprehensive manner;
it appears that our method is ad hoc with almost total reliance on PD zoning.
Having eight years experience with the County planning operations, I confess to being
ahnost paranoid regarding the location of County offices within our city. A previous
Council agreed to a `tri-polar' location of County facilities within SLO. I can agree that
this is reasonable given the social services,health services and general administrative and
justice components of county government. But no more! An agreement is an agreement.
Consequently, I am strongly resistant to any application for large offices that even hints of
use by a county government office unless it is clearly within a tight and closely defined
radius of the three identified centers.
Nevertheless,we have two items before us for final passage consideration and I ask you to .
consider the following recommendations.
RECEIVED
APR 1 5 1999
SLID CITY CLERK
Memo, page 2
Recommendations
Consent item#2
FSrst Choice: deny application for M-MU.
Reasons: Wrong uses, wrong place. No proof that conversion of M use does not impact
inventory of land needed for firture M zone uses. Additional land covered by impervious
surface;contorted access and egress to/from proposed new parking. Opens door to
pressure to lease office space to government agencies;prolonged `policing' of office
tenants to assure compliance with conditions of M-MU. Is a mixture of large office
(meaning large numbers of workers) compatible with manufacturing processes of the types
that that building was originally designed to accommodate?
Second choice: Condition the uses permitted by the MU to eliminate any reference to any
type of County office uses. Exception: Permit County office use for a non-renewable 18
month period in cases of emergency or when the County is vacating offices within a tri-
polar area to allow for the construction of a new building or the renovation of an existing
building.
Consent item#3
Approve with the following changes to the findings and conditions:
-4. Finding#6: change to simply read:
The project is consistent with the General Plan.
Condition#8: Eliminate and substitute:
Offices of any County agency shall not be permitted. Exception: County offices
may be permitted in cases of emergency or in cases where the County is vacating
offices in a the tri polar area to allow for the construction of a new building or
the renovation of an existing building. Such exceptions shall be for a non-
renewable period of 18 months maximum.
I would appreciate yourconsideration of these recommendations.