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Home My WebLink About2003-04-08 - AGENDA REPORTS - GATE KING DEV PROJ (2)Agenda Item: 6 CITY OF SANTA CLARITA AGENDA REPORT PUBLIC HEARING City Manager Approv .- Item to be presented by: Vincent P. Bertoni DATE: April 8, 2003 SUBJECT: DEVELOPMENT OF THE GATE KING INDUSTRIAL PARK PROJECT WHICH INCLUDES THE SUBDIVISION OF 584 ACRES IN TO 88 LOTS DEPARTMENT: Planning and Building Services RECOMMENDED ACTION City Council continue the Public Hearing to the May 27, 2003 City Council meeting. BACKGROUND The City Council requested at the conclusion of the January 28, 2003 City Council meeting, that staff continue to work with the applicant to revise the project site to exclude Lot 24 which would save more oak trees and provide a larger wildlife buffer. The City Council also requested staff to work with the applicant on the 10 remaining project issues for the project. Lastly, Council directed staff to hire a consultant to perform an economic feasibility analysis to verify the developer's claims of economic feasibility constraints. At the regular City Council meeting of February 11, 2003, the City Council appropriated $20,000.00 from the Council Contingency Fund to hire the Conley Consulting Group. The consultant will assist the City Council in their efforts to determine what development requirements are appropriate to impose upon the project. As of March 26, 2003, staff and the applicant are continuing to work together on resolving the ten remaining issues, revising the site plan, and completing the economic feasibility analysis. Thus, staff is requesting to continue the Public Hearing to the May 27, 2003 City Council meeting in order to resolve and complete more of the above referenced items. The applicant is in agreement to continue the hearing to the second meeting in May. Continued b: rd �i0 3 ALTERNATIVE ACTIONS Other action as determined by the Council FISCAL IMPACT The economic feasibility analysis for the project will be presented at the City Council meeting on May 27, 2003. CITY OF SANTA CLARITA DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND BUILDING SERVICES NOTICE TO RE -OPEN THE CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE GATE KING INDUSTRIAL PARK PROJECT APPLICATION: Master Case Number 99-264, Tentative Tract Map 50283, Zone Change 99-002, Hillside Review 99-004, Conditional Use Permit 99-013, Oak Tree Permit 99-029, General Plan Amendment 99-003 and Development Agreement 99- 002. PROJECT LOCATION: The proposed project site is located in the southern portion of the City of Santa Clarita in L.A. County. Specifically, the project site is situated west of the Antelope Valley Freeway (SR 14), and is bounded by Sierra Highway to the east and San Fernando Road to the north. Pine Street is located along the western boundary of the project site. Undeveloped mountainous terrain is located to the south. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Planning Commission recommended approval to the City Council of "C" Street Alternative #5. At the January 28, 2003 City Council meeting, the Council directed staff to work with the applicant in modifying Industrial Lot 24 from Alternative 5 to lessen the impacts further. The applicant is now proposing to gift a majority of Lot 24 (72.7 acres) to the City which would not be part of the project. Thus, the applicant is proposing a tentative tract map to subdivide the 511.3 acre project site into 107 lots and is requesting General Plan and Zoning amendments to change the land use designations in several areas of the site. The proposal involves amending the land use designation on 277.8± acres (45.7% of site). The proposed changes would eliminate the RE and CC designations from the site, and would increase the area designated IC from 187.8 acres to 215.8 acres. The area designated OS would increase from 31.8 acres to 188.6 acres. 67 lots, which encompass about 35.7% of the site, are industrial lots (182.3 acres) or 160± acres pad; 3 lots, which comprise about 7.7 acres or 1.5%, would accommodate 3 water tanks to serve site development; 2.1 acres or 0.5% would accommodate the helipad site; 20.8 acres or 4% would consist of City dedicated trail lots; 51.6 acres or 10% of the site will consist of natural and landscaped slopes and trails dedicated to the City; 174.4 acres (34.1% of site) would be dedicated to the City as a wilderness park; and 18.7 acres or 3.7% would be designated as permanent open space. The remainder of the site of 53.7 acres or 10.5% would consist of public streets (19.1 acres), the MTA (14 acres) and SCE (19.3 acres) rights of way, and the Pioneer Oil Refinery expansion lot dedicated to the City (1.3 acres). Full build out of the site under the applicant's modified proposal would involve the development of 201.4 acres (39% of site) with industrial/commercial uses. This acreage would accommodate up to 4.2 million square feet of industrial/commercial development. As part of this alternative the applicant will also be removing 1,408 oak trees of the 11,721 plus oak trees (no heritage removals) and 336 oak tree encroachments. A 15 - year Development Agreement with the associated deal points is also proposed. PROJECT PROPONENTS: Gate King Properties, LLC The Public Hearing to discuss the merits of this project will be conducted by the City of Santa Clarita City Council on: DATE: April 8, 2003 LOCATION: City Council Chambers TIME: At or after 6:00 p.m. 23920 Valencia Blvd., First Floor, Santa Clarita, CA 91355 An Environmental Impact Report has been prepared for the project to identify potential environmental impacts. The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) became available for public review beginning January 28, 2002. If you wish to challenge the action taken on this matter in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City of Santa Clarita at, or prior to, the public hearing. For further information regarding this proposal, you may contact the City of Santa Clarita, Department of Planning and Building Services, 23920 Valencia Boulevard, 302, Santa Clarita, CA 91355; Telephone: (661) 255-4330. Project Planner: Jeff Hogan and Kelvin Parker CITY OF SANTA CLARITA J� INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Smyth and City Council Members FROM: Kenneth R. Pulskamp, City Manager 1 4j DATE: April 3, 2003 SUBJECT: GATE -KING INDUSTRIAL PARK PROJECT UPDATE At the January 28, 2003 Council meeting, Council requested to continue the Gate -King Industrial Park project item to April 8, 2003 in order for staff to work with the applicant to revise the project site to exclude Lot 24 which would save more oak trees and provide a larger wildlife buffer. The Council also requested staff to work with the applicant on the ten remaining project issues for the project. Lastly, Council directed staff to hire a consultant to perform an economic feasibility analysis to verify the developer's claims of economic feasibility constraints. On April 8, 2003, staff will be requesting to continue the public hearing to the first available meeting date which is May 27, 2003 in order to resolve more of the issues and give more time to the applicant to submit the revised site plan addressing the oak trees and wildlife corridor. Currently, four of the ten issues have been agreed to by staff and the applicant. The remaining six issues which consist of the manufactured slopes, large lot parcel proposal, development fees, CPI adjustments, cash contribution, and trail lot #8 are being discussed internally by staff and the City Attorney. The information needed from the applicant by staff to discuss the remaining issues were received too late to agendize the item for the April 8, 2003 City Council meeting. In addition, staff only recently received the required information to complete the economic feasibility analysis that the Conely group was hired to conduct. Staff will summarize the Conely Group's economic analysis and conclusion for the Council in the May 27, 2003 Council agenda report. Staff will be presenting to the City Council at the April 22, 2003 Council meeting a request by the applicant to gift the City approximately 75 acres of land adjacent to the wildlife corridor which was originally part of Lot 24. If the gift were accepted by the City Council, this area would be excluded from the 584 acre Gate King project. Thus, the Gate King project would be revised to approximately 509 acres. If you have further questions regarding this issue, please contact me or Vince Bertoni, Planning Manager, at (661) 255-4365. ICRP:JJL:VPB:JWH:Iep S/PBS/CURRENT/1999/99264/CCM7NGMEM03 cc: Jeffrey Lambert, AICP, Director of Planning and Building Services Vince Bertoni, AICP, Planning Manager Steve Stark, Director of Administrative Services Robert Newman, Director of Transportation and Engineering Services Rick Gould, Director of Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Andrew Yi, City Traffic Engineer Mike Haviland, Manager of Marketing and Economic Development Ian Pari, Senior Traffic Engineer Curtis Nay, Supervising Engineer Tom Reilly, Park Development Administrator Jeff Hogan, Associate Planner NOTICE OF CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF SANTA CLARITA CITY COUNCIL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita, at its regular meeting held April 8, 2003, continued a public hearing on GATE KING INDUSTRIAL PARK PROJECT - Development of the Gate King Industrial Park project includes the subdivision of 584 acres into 88 lots. The City Council requested at the conclusion of the January 28, 2003 City Council meeting that staff continue to work with the applicant to revise the project site to exclude Lot 24 which would save more oak trees and provide a larger wildlife buffer. The City Council also requested staff to work with the applicant on the 10 remaining project issues for the project. Lastly, Council directed staff to hire a consultant to perform an economic feasibility analysis to verify the developer's claims of economic feasibility constraints. to May 27, 2003. The continued public hearing will be held at or after 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber at 23920 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, California. Dated this 9th day of April, 2003. SHARON L. DAWSON, CITY CLERK STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS. AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING CITY OF SANTA CLARITA 1 I, SHARON L. DAWSON, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that she is the duly appointed and qualified City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita and that on April 9, 2003, she caused the above notice to be posted at the door of the Council Chamber located at 23920 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, California. —J— a"""te 4� 911-� SHARON L. DAWSON, CITY CLERK Santa Clarita, California PubhcHearings/C ONTPH. doc