Resolution-PC 98-69RESOLUTION NO. PC98-69
A RESOLUTION OF THE ANAHEIM CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
DENYING GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 354
PERTAINING TO THE LAND US~ ELEMENT
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Anaheim did adopt the Anaheim General Plan
by Resolution No. 69R-644, showing the gereral description ard extent of possible future development
within the City; and
WHEREAS, the Anaheim City Planning Commission did receive a request for amendment
io the General Plan and directed staff to initiate said amendment to the Land Use Element of the General
Plan to redesignate the subject property from the current Hillside Low-Medium Density Residential land
use desi~nation to the Hillside Medium Density Residential land use designation; and
WHEREAS, the Analieim City Planning Commission did hold a public hearing at the
Anaheim Civic Center, Council Chamber, 200 South Anaheim Boulevard, on April 27, 1998, at 1:30 p.m.,
notice of said public hearing having been duly given as requi~ed by law and in accordance with the
provisions of the Anaheim Municipal Code, to hear and consider evidence for and against said General
Plan Amendment and to investigate and make findings and recommendations in connection therewith;
and
WHEREAS, said Commission, after due consideration, inspection, investigation and study
made by itself, and after due consideration of all evidence and reports offered at said hearing, DOES
HEREBY FIND:
1. That adjacent and nearby residential neighborhoods to the north, northeast and west
have a land use c+esignation of Hillside Low-Medium Uensity Residential and are develop~d with Lo~v
Density Residentiai single family homes.
2. That the subject property is "landlocked" in that it has no direct access +o any adjoining
arterial highway or other public street and, as such, is not developable without first obtaining a single
family residential lot(s) and home(s) on Addington Drive to provide vehicle access; and that the adjacent
residential subdivisions were developed with a coordinated public street system that did not meke
provision for a development such as is being proposed and which would funnel traffic through a single
ingress and egress point; and that the proposal wouid, therefore, have adverse impacts on existing
residences in the area, particularly those adjoining the subject property and those fronting on the streets
which would connect !he project to Riverdale Avenue.
3. That the subject property, which was part of the original SR 91/Riverside Freeway right-
of-way acquisition, serves as a buffer between the single family l~omes along Addington f7rive and the
freeway.
4. TF~at evidence of the property's unsuitability for residential development is reflected in
the sound attenuation measures which would be required to comply with Anaheim Council Policy No. 542
pertaining to Sound Attenuation In Residential Projects.
5. That development of the subject property could encourage simile,r applications for
development of marginal residential projects on other freeway properties determined to be surplus by
Caltrans.
6. That the evidence presented does not substantiate the ne~.d for an amerdment to the
Anaheim Gene~al Plan. •
7. That approxiately 26 persons indicated their presence at the public hearing in opposition
and five of them spoke in opposition t~ the proposal; that correspondence was received in opposition; and
that a petition containing ai prox?mately 400 signatures was received in opposition.
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CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALI7Y ACT FINDING: That the Anaheim City
Planning Commission has reviewed the proposal to amend the Land Use Element of the General Plan to
change the current land use designation from Hillside Low-Medium Density Residential to Hillside Medium
Density Residential on a 10.5-acre parcel having frontages of 260 feet on the ~outh side oF Riverdale
Avenue, 43 feet on the west side of Addington Drive east of the terminus of Bainbridge Avenue and 45
feat on the west side of Addington Drive between Pageant Street and Redrock Strep:, having a maximum
length of 2,290 feet and being located 70 feet south of the centerline of Bainbridge Avenue (4000 East
Riverdale Avenue); and does hereby deny the Negative Deciaration upon finding that it has considered
the Negative Declaration together with any comments received during the public review process and
further finding on the basis of the initial study and any comments received that there is evidence that the
project will have a significant effect on the environment.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that pursuant to the above findings, the
Anaheim City Planning Commission does deny General Plan Amendment No. 354 periaining to the Land
Use Element.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTIOPJ wa~ adopted at the Planning Commission rneeting of
April 27, 1998.
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CHAIRPERSON, ANAHEIM CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
ATTEST:
/Y[a~~t~u~ S6~i~r
SECRETARY, A HEIM CIN PLANNING COMMISSION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, Margarita Solorio, Secretary of the Anaheim City Planning Commission, do hereby
certify that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted at a meeting of the Anaheim City Planning
Commission held on April 27, 1998, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: COMMISSIONERS: BOS'iWICK, BOYDSTUN, BRISTOL, HENNINGER, NAPOLES, PERAZA
NOES: COMMISSI~NERS: NONE
ABSENT: COtiiMISSIONERS: NONE
VACANCY: ONE SEAT VACANT
IN WITNESS WHERCOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ~7~ ~ay of
, 1998.
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SECRETARY NAHEIM ClTY PLANNING COMMISSION
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