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1 PLANNING DEPARTMENT TRANSMITTAL TO THE CITY CLERK S OFFICE CITY PLANNING CASE: ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT: COUNCIL DISTRICT: CPC ZC ENV CE 4 - Ryu PROJECT ADDRESS: 4500 Noth Woodman, Avenue; 4464, 4465, , 4471 Noth Ventua Canyon Avenue APPLICANT TELEPHONE NUMBER: ADDRESS: i New/Changed CITY OF LOS ANGELES APPLICANT S REPRESENTATIVE TELEPHONE NUMBER: ADDRESS: APPELLANT TELEPHONE NUMBER: ADDRESS: APPELLANT S REPRESENTATIVE TELEPHONE NUMBER: ADDRESS: PLANNER CONTACT INFORMATION: TELEPHONE NUMBER: ADDRESS: Adineh Melkonian (818) adineh.melkonian@lacitv.og ENTITLEMENTS FOR CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Zone Change Tansmittal Rev 04/05/17 1

2 FINAL ENTITLEMENTS NOT ADVANCING: ITEMS APPEALED: ATTACHMENTS: REVISED: ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE: REVISED: 7 Lette of Detemination 7 Findings of Fact 7 Staff Recommendation Repot Conditions of Appoval 7 Odinance 7 Zone Change Map GPA Resolution Land Use Map Exhibit A - Site Plan 7 Mailing List Land Use Othe NOTES / INSTRUCTION(S): 7 Categoical Exemption Negative Declaation P Mitigated Negative Declaation P Envionmental Impact Repot Mitigation Monitoing Pogam Othe FISCAL IMPACT STATEMENT: i Yes 7 No *If detemination states administative costs ae ecoveed though fees, indicate Yes. PLANNING COMMISSION: 7 City Planning Commission (CPC) Cultual Heitage Commission (CHC) Cental Aea Planning Commission East LA Aea Planning Commission Habo Aea Planning Commission Noth Valley Aea Planning Commission South LAAea Planning Commission South Valley Aea Planning Commission West LAAea Planning Commission Tansmittal Rev 04/05/17 2

3 PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING DATE: CO M M ISS I ON VOTE : Januay 25, LAST DAY TO APPEAL: APPEALED: TRANSMITTED BY: TRANSMITTAL DATE: James K. Williams Febuay 26,2018 Tansmittal Rev 04/05/17 3

4 O! fs. «Los Angeles City Planning Commission 200 Noth Sping Steet, Room 532, Los Angeles, Califonia, , (213) LETTER OF DETERMINATION MAILING DATE: FEB Case No.: CPC ZC Council Distict: 4 - Ryu CEQA: ENV CE Plan Aea: Sheman Oaks-Studio City-Toluca Lake-Cahuenga Pass Poject Site: 4500 N Woodman Avenue; 4464, 4465, 4469, 4470, 4471 Noth Ventua Canyon Avenue Applicant: City of Los Angeles Repesentative: Adineh Melkonian, City Planning Assistant At its meeting of Januay 25, 2018, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission took the actions below in conjunction with the appoval of the following: A City-initiated odinance to evise the existing zoning Detemined that based on the whole of the administative ecod, the Poject is exempt fom CEQA pusuant to CEQA Guidelines, Section, 15332, and thee is no substantial evidence demonstating that an exception to a categoical exemption pusuant to CEQA Guidelines, Section applies. Appoved and ecommended that the City Council adopt, pusuant to Section of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, a Zone Change fom R1-1-RIO to R3-1-RIO fo the subject site; Adopted the technical modification by staff dated Januay 24, 2018; and Adopted the attached Findings. The vote poceeded as follows: Moved: Seconded: Ayes: Absent: Mitchell Choe Amboz, Khosand, Millman, Dake Wilson Mack, Padilla-Campos, Pelman Vote: 6-0 James K. Williams, Commission Executive Assistant II Los Angeles City Planning Commission

5 CPC ZC Page 2 Effective Date/Appeals: The detemination of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission is final and not appealable. If you seek judicial eview of any decision of the City pusuant to Califonia Code of Civil Pocedue Section , the petition fo wit of mandate pusuant to that section must be filed no late than the 90th day following the date on which the City's decision became final pusuant to Califonia Code of Civil Pocedue Section Thee may be othe time limits which also affect you ability to seek judicial eview. Attachments: Zone Change Odinance, Map, Findings c: Chistine Saponaa, Senio City Planne Adam Villani, City Planne Adineh Melkonian, City Planning Assistant

6 ORDINANCE NO. An odinance amending Section of the Los Angeles Municipal Code by amending the zoning map. THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is heeby amended by changing the zone and zone boundaies shown upon a potion of the zone map attached theeto and made a pat of Aticle 2, Chapte 1 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, so that such potion of the zoning map shall be as follows:

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8 CPC ZC FINDINGS Geneal Plan/Chate Findings 1. Geneal Plan Findings a. Famewok Element The Geneal Plan guides the gowth and development of the City and povides a compehensive view of the City of Los Angeles as a whole. Pe City Chate Section 555, and Geneal Plan Famewok Element Policy 3.1.5, amendments to community plans ae allowed to futhe efine land use boundaies and categoies to eflect local conditions, existing land uses, pacel chaacteistics, and public input. The poposed zone change modifies the zoning on the subject pacels fom R1-1-RIO to R3-1-RIO. The poposed changes ae a eflection of the intent of the Community Plan land use designation, the development of the existing popety, and the use and zone of the suounding esidential aea. The subject popeties ae developed with a multi-family apatment complex oiginally appoved in The R1-1-RIO zone is not consistent with the land use designation and zoning of the suounding esidential aeas and is not appopiate fo the cuent and histoic uses of the popeties. Immediately to the notheast of the popeties is the Los Angeles Rive concete-lined flood contol channel, to the west, south, and east ae multi-family esidential uses. The poposed R3-1-RIO zone will bing the zoning of the subject popeties into consistency with the land use designation and the suounding esidential context, and allow fo the existing pemitted uses. Should the popeties be edeveloped, the poposed R3-1-RIO will ensue compatibility with the existing scale and chaacte of the suounding esidential neighbohood. The poposed zone change is consistent with the Geneal Plan Famewok Element s policies that seek to etain multifamily esidential uses with an emphasis on especting suounding context, as follows: Policy Povide fo the siting and design of new development that maintains the pevailing scale and chaacte of the City s stable esidential neighbohoods and enhance the chaacte of commecial and industial disticts. Policy Accommodate the development of multi-family esidential units in aeas designated in the community plans in accodance with Table 3-1 and Zoning Odinance densities indicated in Table 3-3, with the density pemitted fo each pacel to be identified in the community plans. The poposed zone, R3-1-RIO would be consistent with the multi-family use that exists on the site, and would limit futue development of the subject popeties to medium density esidential uses assuing compatibility with the suounding esidential neighbohood. The neighboing popeties ae similaly impoved with multi-family esidential uses. The poposed zone change would ensue consistency with the land use designation of the subject popety and suounding esidential popeties as identified in the Sheman Oaks-Studio City-Toluca Lake-Cahuenga Pass Community Plan. The poposed zone change would ensue that the existing multi-family esidential uses on the subject popeties, and the chaacte of the suounding esidential neighbohood, would be peseved in accodance with Policy 3.4.1, as follows:

9 CPC ZC F-2 Policy Conseve existing stable esidential neighbohoods and loweintensity commecial disticts and encouage the majoity of new commecial and mixed-use (integated commecial and esidential) development to be located (a) in a netwok of neighbohood disticts, community, egional, and downtown centes, (b) in poximity to ail and bus tansit stations and coidos, and (c) along the City's majo boulevads, efeed to as disticts, centes, and mixed-use boulevads, in accodance with the Famewok Long-Range Land Use Diagam (Figue 3-1 and 3-2). (P1, P2, P18). The subject popeties have been impoved with esidential uses since The poposed zone would peseve the histoic uses of the popeties and would maintain the chaacte of the suounding stable esidential neighbohood. Los Angeles City Chate Section 556 equies that findings be made. The poposed zone change complies with Chate Sections 556 in that the ecommended zone change do eflect the land use pattens, tends, and uses in the immediate aea and do futhe the intent, puposes, and objectives of the City s Geneal Plan, specifically the Famewok Element and the Sheman Oaks-Studio City-Toluca Lake-Cahuenga Pass Community Plan. b. Sheman Oaks-Studio City-Toluca Lake-Cahuenga Pass Community Plan The Land Use Element of the Geneal Plan of the City of Los Angeles is compised of 35 Community Plans. These plans egulate how land is utilized and developed. Community Plans ae intended to pomote an aangement of land uses, steets, and sevices that encouage and contibute to the economic, social and physical health, safety, welfae, and convenience of the people who live and wok in the community. The subject popeties ae located in the Sheman Oaks-Studio City-Toluca Lake- Cahuenga Pass Community Plan, in the Sheman Oaks neighbohood. To the noth, the site is bound with the Los Angeles Rive. To the west, south and east, the suounding aeas ae developed with multi-family esidential stuctues appoved in the ealy 20th and 21st centuies. The poposed zone will ensue that any futue development is compatible with the suounding esidential neighbohood and will bing the zoning of the popety into consistency with the land use designation and zoning of the suounding esidential aea. The subject popeties ae pivately owned and have been legally opeating with esidential uses. Changing the zoning to match the cuent legally pemitted esidential use is consistent with the following policies and objectives descibed in the Sheman Oaks-Studio City-Toluca Lake-Cahuenga Pass Community Plan: Objective 1-3: To peseve and enhance the vaied and distinct esidential chaacte and integity of existing single and multi-family neighbohoods. The poposed changes would allow the owne to maintain and enhance the existing multi-family complex on the popety, theeby helping to peseve the esidential chaacte of the existing neighbohood. The poposed zone change will ensue that any futue development is compatible with the suounding esidential neighbohood and will bing the zoning and land use designation of the popeties into consistency with the land use designation as well as the zoning of the suounding esidential aea.

10 CPC ZC F-3 Legislative Action Findings 2. City Chate Sections 558 and LAMC Section 12.32(c)(7). Los Angeles City Chate Section 558 and Section 12.32(c)(7) of the LAMC equie that pio to adopting a land use odinance, the City Council make findings that the odinance confoms with public necessity, convenience, geneal welfae and good zoning pactice. a. Public Necessity. Ganting the equested legislative action, as ecommended, will be deemed consistent with public necessity. The cuent zoning is R1-1-RIO (One-Family Residential). The R1-1-RIO zone categoy is applied to popeties that ae planned fo single-family. The existing esidential uses on the subject popeties ae not allowed in R1-1-RIO, the popeties ae not planned fo single-family use, and the R1-1-RIO zoning was applied in eo (see pevious discussion). The poposed legislative action ensues compatibility with the existing legally pemitted use on the site and with adjacent esidential pacels that ae cuently zoned R3-1-RIO and designated Medium Residential. It also ensues that the pope egulatoy zoning is in place to allow maintenance and impovements on the existing stuctue and fo compatible development in the futue b. Convenience. Ganting the equested legislative action, as ecommended, will be deemed consistent with public convenience. The poposed zone change contibutes to the pesevation of neighbohood chaacte and the stability of an existing medium density esidential neighbohood. The legislative action is consistent with the zoning of adjacent esidential popeties and would allow the cuent legally pemitted esidential use of the subject popeties. c. Geneal Welfae. Ganting the equested legislative action, as ecommended, will be deemed consistent with the geneal welfae, in that the poposed zone change would peseve medium density multifamily esidential uses that ae compatible and consistent with the land use designation and zoning of adjacent pacels with esidential uses. d. Good Zoning Pactice. Ganting the equested legislative action, as ecommended, will be deemed consistent with good zoning pactice. Cuently, the R1-1-RIO zone is not consistent with the land use designation and zoning of the subject popety and suounding esidential popeties. The poposed zone change would allow the existing legally pemitted esidential uses on the subject popeties to continue. It would peseve the zoning intention to implement the community plan s goals to potect and conseve existing medium density esidential aeas. Based on these findings, the ecommended action is deemed consistent with the public necessity, convenience, geneal welfae and good zoning pactice.

11 CPC ZC F-4 CEQA Findings Pusuant to CEQA Guidelines, Section , an Exemption fom CEQA (a) Cumulative Impacts; (b) Significant Effect; (c) Scenic Highways; (d) Hazadous Waste Sites; and (e) Histoical Resouces, and that thee is no substantial evidence demonstating that an exception to a categoical exemption pusuant to CEQA Guidelines, Section applies. The Class 32 Categoical Exemption was published on Los Angeles Daily Jounal on Novembe 1, 2017.The poject is chaacteized as an infill development meeting the following five condition: The Poject Site is 5 aces o less; The Poject is consistent with the Geneal Plan (i.e. Community Plan) and zoning equiements, and no Zone Changes, Zone Vaiances o Specific Plan Exceptions ae equied; The Poject Site is not located on any hazadous waste site list; The Poject is not demolishing a histoical esouce; and It is not eadily appaent the Poject will ceate a significant impact to the envionment. As stated in the mandatoy findings of significance in the Class 32 Categoical Exemption, the Depatment of City Planning concludes the following: a. Thee is not a succession of known pojects of the same type and in the same place as the subject poject. As mentioned, the poject poposes a coection initiated by the City that will make the zoning consistent with the land use designation and cuent esidential use of the subject aea in an aea zoned and designated fo such development. All adjacent lots ae developed with multi-family esidential and concete-lined flood contol channel, and the subject site is of a simila size and slope to neaby popeties. b. The poject poposes no change to the 3:1 Floo Aea Ratio (FAR). It is not unusual fo the vicinity of the subject site, and is simila in scope to othe existing Medium Residential in the aea. Thus, thee ae no unusual cicumstances which may lead to a significant effect on the envionment. c. d. e. Additionally, the only State Scenic Highway within the City of Los Angeles is the Topanga Canyon State Scenic Highway, State Route 27, which tavels though a potion of Topanga State Pak. Subject site is located about 10 miles east of the Topanga Canyon State Scenic Highway, State Route 27. Theefoe the subject site will not ceate any impacts within a designated as a state scenic highway. Futhemoe, accoding to Enviosto, the State of Califonia s database of Hazadous Waste Sites, neithe the subject site, no any site in the vicinity, is identified as a hazadous waste site. The poject site has not been identified as a histoic esouce by local o state agencies, and the poject site has not been detemined to be eligible fo listing in the National Registe of Histoic Places, Califonia Registe of Histoical Resouces, the Los Angeles Histoic-Cultual Monuments Registe, and/o any local egiste; and was not found to be a potential histoic esouce based on the City s HistoicPlacesLA website o SuveyLA, the citywide suvey of Los Angeles. Finally, the City does not choose to teat the site as a histoic esouce. Based on this, the poject will not esult in a substantial advese change to the significance of a histoic esouce and this exception does not apply. The envionmental case file can be found with the case file in the Policy Division of the Planning Depatment in Room 351, 6262 Van Nuys Boulevad, Van Nuys CA