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CIT9 OF SAN BERNARDliWb - REQU.9T FOR COUNCIL AC~ON
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From:
R. Ann Siracusa .RJ:C'O.-A.D.MIH. tiFF,
Director of Plann1tl~
Planning 1337 JUL I 0 P:\ 4: ;:: B
Subject:
Amend Municipal Code Section 19.30.101
amending the height limit in the C-3A
zone in the Commercenter Area and
providing funds therefor.
Dept:
Date: July 10, 1987
Synopsis of Previous Council action:
On July 6, 1987, the Council took an action directing the Planning staff to initiate
proceedings to consider amending Municipal Code Section 19.30.101 (re C-3A) to allow
four stories, sixty-two feet in the Commercenter area.
Recommemled motion:
That a maximum of $10,000 be allocated for the purpose of retaining a consultant to
prepare necessary studies and environmental documents for the proposed amendment to
the Municipal Code.
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Contact person:
R. Ann Siracusa
Phone: 1RI.-~1~7
Supporting data attached:
Staff Reoort
Ward:
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FUNDING REQUIREMENTS: Amount: $10.000
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4CI* OF SAN BERNARD~O - REQU~st FOR COUNCIL ACTION
STAFF REPORT
At their meeting on July 6, 1987, the City Council directed the Planning staff
to initiate proceedings to consider amending Municipal Code Section 19.30.101
(re C-3A) to allow building heights of four stories, sixty-two feet in the
Commercenter area.
The Council indicated that the study and appropriate environmental documentation
should proceed as quickly as possible without compromising the environmental
analysis. Because the Planning staff has four vacant positions, including the
clerical position with the responsibility of typing longer documents such as an
initial study, and because as many staff members as possible have been
reassigned to work on the General Plan update, which is a critical project on a
critical time frame, it is impossible for the existing Planning staff to prepare
a study on raising the height limits in the Commercenter area and to prepare the
necessary environmental analysis.
The only available means of accomplishing the necessary staff work for this
amendment without either delaying the processing of development projects or hin-
dering the General Plan effort is to hire a planning/environmental consultant to
carry out the work.
Based on a very cursory analysis of the potential impacts of raising the height
limits and the imformation available in existing environmental documents, staff
estimates that the maximum cost for consultant services would be $10,000.
Planning staff does not have sufficient funds budgeted to cover the cost of such
a study and is requesting allocation of funds to proceed.
Further, since a number of variances have been approved in the area for heights
up to ten stories, and because the Planning staff has reason to believe that
there are several projects not yet filed which are designed to exceed four
stories, it is staff's recommendation that the study not be limited to 62 feet
but rather to study the range between four and ten stories.
Ie Ann Siracusa
Director of Planning
75-0264