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Home My WebLink About02 GENERAL PLAN CONFORMITY DETERMINATION - RELOCATION OF ARC DECEMBER 10, 2013ITEM #2 / p'� ' AGENDA REPORT MEETING DATE: DECEMBER 10, 2013 TO: PLANNING COMMISSION FROM: ELIZABETH A. BINSACK, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUBJECT: GENERAL PLAN CONFORMITY DETERMINATION — RELOCATION OF ARMY RESERVE CENTER APPLICANT: CITY OF TUSTIN PROPERTY OWNER: CITY OF TUSTIN LOCATION ZONING: GENERAL PLAN ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: RECOMMENDATION NORTH EAST CORNER OF RED HILL AVENUE AND FUTURE WARNER AVENUE MCAS TUSTIN SPECIFIC PLAN MCAS TUSTIN SPECIFIC PLAN GENERAL PLAN CONFORMITY DETERMINATIONS REQUIRED BY GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 65402(a) ARE NOT CONSIDERED "PROJECTS' REQUIRING ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW PURSUANT TO THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT That the Planning Commission adopt Resolution No. 4242 determining that the location, purpose, and extent of the proposed disposition of approximately 15 acre site to accommodate the relocation of Army Reserve Center is in conformance with the Tustin General Plan. APPROVAL AUTHORITY Pursuant to Section 65402(a) of the Government Code, the Planning Commission is authorized to determine whether the location, purpose, and extent of the proposed disposition of real property is consistent with the General Plan. Planning Commission Report GPC Determination — Army Reserve Center Relocation December 10, 2013 Page 2 BACKGROUNDMISCUSSION The City is currently in negotiations with the U.S. Army for a potential relocation from their current Army Reserve Center located on Barranca Parkway adjacent to The District shopping center to the future location at the north east corner of Red Hill Avenue and future Warner Avenue. The future site is currently owned by the City and the City is entering into a real estate transaction with the Army to allow for the relocation. The relocation would benefit both the U.S. Army and the City of Tustin. The project at the future location includes construction and operation of a U.S. Army Reserve Center (USARC). The new facility would include a 68,696- square -foot Army Reserve training building, a 9,795- square -foot organizational maintenance shop (OMS), and a 4,708- square -foot unheated storage building (Figure 1 and Attachment B). The new training building would include administrative space, educational, assembly, library, learning center, vault, weapons simulator, and physical fitness areas. Training activities would include classroom training, light calisthenics, and vehicle maintenance and repair training. Live weapons training would not be conducted and weapons would not be discharged at the USARC. Disturbed areas that are not within the footprint of the proposed buildings or parking areas would be landscaped and used to meet security setback requirements. Physical security measures or antiterrorism /force protection measures would be incorporated into the design and would include setbacks from roads, parking areas, and vehicle unloading areas. I Mut". lick VAMNGWATA b•I ..mr II i \yf'ii °T�� l'l f'TI NLu il Figure 5FS9f" Figure 1 Planning Commission Report GPC Determination — Army Reserve Center Relocation December 10, 2013 Page 3 The USAR would continue to employ up to 36 full -time employees during the week and to support up to 600 reservists with training occurring three weekends a month. The maximum number of reservists training on one weekend would be 283. Pursuant to Section 65402(c) of the California Government Code (Planning and Development Law), a general plan conformity determination from local planning agencies prior to acquisition or disposition of real property by a local agency is required. The proposed disposition to accommodate the Army Reserves supports General Plan Land Use, including the following: 1. Land Use Element Goal 1: Provide for a well - balanced land use pattern that accommodates existing and future needs for housing, commercial, and industrial land, open space and community facilities and services, while maintaining a healthy, diversified economy adequate to provide future City services. 2. Land Use Element Goal 3: Ensure that new development is compatible with surrounding land uses in the community, the City's circulation network, availability of public facilities, existing development constraints, and the City's unique characteristics and resources. 3. Land Use Goal 6: Improve urban design in Tustin to ensure development that is both architecturally and functionally compatible, and to create uniquely identifiable neighborhoods. 4. Land Use Goal 13: Continue to implement the Specific Plan /Reuse for MCAS Tustin which maximizes the appeal of the site as a mixed use and master planned development. 5. MICAS Tustin Specific Plan, Neighborhood A, Planning Area 1 -G, allows for Government Facilities as permitted uses. As such, the proposed relocation implements both the General Plan and the MICAS Tustin Specific Plan. Based upon the City's adopted General Plan, the location, purpose, and extent of the proposed disposition to accommodate the Army Reserve Center relocation is in conformance with the approved General Plan Land. Accordingly, staff recommends that the Planning Commission adopt Resolution No. 4242. J tins IN96m- om Assistant Director — Planning Attachments: A. Location Map B. Resolution No CiGCc�o�� IC Elizabeth A. Binsack Director of Community Development 4242 and Exhibit A — Depiction of Property to be Disposed ATTACHMENT A LOCATION MAP Proj Sit Location Map ATTACHMENT B RESOLUTION NO. 4242 /_1►111 EXHIBIT A - DEPICTION OF PROPERTY TO BE DISPOSED RESOLUTION NO. 4242 A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN DETERMINING THAT THE LOCATION, PURPOSE, AND EXTENT OF THE PROPOSED DISPOSITION OF AN APPROXIMATLEY 15 ACRE SITE WITHIN PLANNING AREA 1 (NEIGHBORHOOD A) OF THE MCAS TUSTIN SPECIFIC PLAN TO ACCOMMODATE THE RELOCATION OF THE ARMY RESERVE CENTER IS IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE APPROVED GENERAL PLAN. The Planning Commission does hereby resolve as follows: The Planning Commission finds and determines as follows: A. That the City of Tustin initiated the application for the proposed relocation of the Army Reserve Center that is currently located on Barranca Parkway to the northeast corner of Redhill Avenue and future Warner Avenue on approximately 15 acre site currently owned by the City of Tustin within Planning Areas 1 of the MCAS Tustin Specific Plan. B. That the City wishes to dispose of an approximately 15 acre site within Planning Areas 15 to accommodate the relocation of the Army Reserve Center. C. That Section 65402(a) of Government Code provides that no real property shall be disposed until the location, purpose, and extent of the project has been reported upon by the local planning agency as to the conformity with the adopted general plan. D. The proposed disposition supports several General Plan Land Use Element goals, including the following: 1. Land Use Element Goal 1: Provide for a well - balanced land use pattern that accommodates existing and future needs for housing, commercial, and industrial land, open space and community facilities and services, while maintaining a healthy, diversified economy adequate to provide future City services. 2. Land Use Element Goal 3: Ensure that new development is compatible with surrounding land uses in the community, the City's circulation network, availability of public facilities, existing development constraints, and the City's unique characteristics and resources. 3. Land Use Goal 6: Improve urban design in Tustin to ensure development that is both architecturally and functionally compatible, and to create uniquely identifiable neighborhoods. 4. Land Use Goal 13: Continue to implement the Specific Plan /Reuse for MCAS Tustin which maximizes the appeal of the site as a mixed use and master planned development. Resolution No. 4242 Page 2 5. MCAS Tustin Specific Plan, Neighborhood A, Planning Area 1 -G, allows for Government Facilities as permitted uses. As such, the proposed relocation implements both the General Plan and the MCAS Tustin Specific Plan. E. That Section 65402 (a) of the Government Code authorizes the Planning Commission to determine whether the location, purpose, and extent of the proposed disposition of real property is consistent with the General Plan. That the general plan conformity determinations required by Government Code Section 65402(a) are not "projects" requiring environmental review pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act. The Planning Commission hereby determines that the location, purpose, and extent of the disposition of the subject parcel to accommodate the relocation so the Army Reserve Center is in conformance with the approved General Plan. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Planning Commission of the City of Tustin at a regular meeting held on the 10`h day of December, 2013. STEVE KOZAK Chairperson ELIZABETH A. BINSACK Planning Commission Secretary STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF ORANGE CITY OF TUSTIN I, ELIZABETH A. BINSACK, the undersigned, hereby certify that I am the Planning Commission Secretary of the City of Tustin, California; that Resolution No. 4242 was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Tustin Planning Commission, held on the 10th day of December, 2013. ELIZABETH A. BINSACK Planning Commission Secretary I mm Nis p1mmw MEMC �SNNRF;q = == = a a w a a a s a y I F !1 II I I ix3w3m 3ensarv.iwsmxuo II 30N3AY 111H 034 I jig 'I I� wR 6 w� 3 9 9 r