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RESOLUTION NO. PC2006-83
A RESOLUTION OF THE ANAHEIM PLANNING COMMISSION
RECOMMENDING TO THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPTION,IN PART, :
AMENDMENT NO. 4 TO THE PACIFICENTER SPEGFIC PLAN 88-3
ORDINANCE NO. 5278.
WHEREAS, On July 25, 1989, the City Council, by Ordinance Nos. 5045 (to impiement the
Zoning and Development Standards), approved the Pacificenter Specific Plan permitting a mixed-use
commercial development including 500,000 square feet of office area,'24,000 square feet of retail commercial
area, 4,000 square feet of drive-through restaurant area, a 150-room hotel, an 8,000 square foof restaurant and
three parking structures within three Development Areas on 25.71 acres; and
WHEREAS, on July 25; 1989, the City Council further adopted Ordinance No. 5Q46 relating to
reclassification of certain real property described therein into the Specific Plan 88-3 Zone subject to certain
conditions as specified therein: and
WHEREAS, on March 5, 1991, the City Council, by Ordinance No. 5207 (amending the Zoning
and Development Standards as adopted under Ordinance No. 5045), approved Amendment No. 1 of the '
Pacificenter Specific Plan to allow a warehouse building and an indoor physical recreation facility as a permitted
use within Development Area 1; and '
WHEREAS, on December 10; 1991, the City Council, by Ordinance Nos: 5277 (amending the
Zoning and Development Standards adopted under Ordinance Nos. 5045 and 5207) and 5278 (amending the
Specific Plan SP88-3 Zone name from Santa Fe Pacific Plaza to Pacificenter as adopted under Ordinance No.
5046), approved Amendment No. 2 of the Pacificenter Specific Plan to expand the list of permitted and '
conditionally permitted uses within Development Area 2 and amending the Sign Program to permit a 44-foot high
pylon sign and a 96 square foot freestanding monument sign for the drive-through restaurant; and
WHEREAS, on August 24, 1999, the City Council, by Ordinance No. 5695, approved
Amendment Na 3 to the Pacificenter Specific Plan No. 88-3 (amending Exhibit Nos. 4 and 6, Development Area
standards, the listed permitted and conditionally permitted uses, and the Sign Program Appendix) and a Final
Site Plan in order to create a single, unified Development Area for the devefopmenf of a mixed-use commercial
center within the Specific Plan, including the development of retail, office, hotel and other supporting uses; and
WHEREAS, the Anaheim Planning Commission did hold a public hearing at the Anaheim Civic
Center, Council Chambers, 200 South Anaheim Boulevard, inthe City of Anaheim on May 31, 2006, at 2:30
p.m., notice of said public hearing having been duly given as required by law and in accordance with the
pravisions of the Anaheim Municipal Code, Chapter 18.60 and 18.72, to hear and consider evidence for and
against said proposed amendment and to investigate and make findings and recommendations in connection
therewith; whereas the meeting was continued from the May 31, June 12, July 24, and August 21, 2006,
Commission meetings and
WHEREAS, the Anaheim Planning Commission, after due consideration, inspection,
investigation and study made by Itself and on its behalf, and after due consideration of all evidence and reports
offered at said hearing, does find and determine the following facts:
1. That Amendment No. 4 pertaining to the deletion of the length of occupancy for the existing hotel
is consistent with the goals, objectives and policies of the Anaheim General Plan, including the standards and
land use guidefines provided therein; and
2. That the proposed amendment pertaining to the deletion of the length of occupancy for the
existing hotel would.provide for consistency with Council Policy No. 550 pertaining to hotel occupancy;' and '
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3. That the proposed amendment perfaining to an additional monument sign has been'withdrawn
by the applicant.
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT FINDINGS: That the Anaheim City Planning
Commission has reviewed the proposal, and did find and determine and recommend that the Planning
Commission find and determine, pursuant to the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA),
based upon its indepentlent review and consideration of the previously-certified Final EIR No. 280 and the
evidence received at the public hearing, that the previously-certified EIR No. 280 is in complian~e with CEQA
and the State and'City CEQA Guidelines and is adequate to serve as the required environmental documentation
for this'Amendment to the'Pacificenter Specific Plan and satisfies all of the requirements of CEQA, an~ tMat nq
further environmental documentation need be prepared for#his Amendment.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that, pursuant to the above findings #he Anaheim
Planning CommisSion does hereby recommend that the City Council of the City of Anaheim approve Amendment
No. 4 to the Pacificenter SpecificPlan, in part, denying the proposed amendment pertaining to`#reestanding
signage and approving the amendment pertaining to length of occupancy as follows:
Amend Appendix No. 11 hotel conditions to delete as follows:
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THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION was adopted at the Planning Commission meeting of
October'2, 2006. Said resolution is subject #o the appeal provisions se h in Chapte 18.6Q "Procedures" of
the Anaheim Municipal Code pertaining to appeal procedures ~-~~'~`~
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~`~GHAIRMAN, NAHEI ~PLANNING COMMISSIqN '
ATTEST:
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SENIOR SECRETARY, ANAHEIM PLANNING COMMISSION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
C{TY OF ANAHEIM )
I, Eleanor Morris, Senior Secretary of the Anaheim Planning Commission, do hereby certify that
the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted at a meeting of the Anaheim City Planning Commission held
on October 2, 2006, by the fol{owing vote of the members thereof: '
AYES: COMMISSIONERS: EAS7MAN, FAESSEL, FLORES, ROMERO, VELASQUEZ
NOES: COMMISSIONERS: NONE :
ABSENT: COMMISSIONERS: BUFFA, KARAKI
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I.have hereunto set my hand this ~ day of ~.~L,
2006. ~
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SENIOR SECRETARY, ANAHEIM PLANNING COMMISSION
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