HomeMy Public PortalAbout72-179RESOLUTION NO. 72-179
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CARSON FINDING AND DETERMINING THAT THE PRO-
POSED SHOPPING CENTER KNOWN AS CARSON MALL IS
IN ACCORD WITH THE CONSERVATION ELEMENT OF THE
GENERAL PLAN OF THE CITY OF CARSON AND DETER-
MINING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT THEREOF AND
RATIFYING AND APPROVING GRADING PERMITS,
BUILDING PERMITS AND SUBDIVISION MAPS THEREFOR
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON HEREBY FINDS, DETERMINES AND
RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
Section I. The proposed shopping center known as Carson Mall, located
southeasterly of N in ersection of Avalon Boulevard and Del Amo Boulevard in the City of
Carson, is being developed in accordance with changes of zone and ordinances establishing
commercial zoning in 1970, before the effective date of the California Environmental Quality
Act of 1970. The proposed development of the Carson Mall is proceeding in accordance with
said zoning ordinances adopted prior to the effect of said Act.
Section 2. The City of Carson has a General Plan which was adopted in
1971 and has been in effect since that date and said General Plan contains a Conservation
Element as provided by law.
Section 3. The proposed Carson Mall project has been examined, studied
and considered sinc— a l9 by the City staff with respect to its environmental impact and other
implications to the community and the Community Development Department has filed an environ-
mental impact report with the City Council which has been received and considered by the City
Council.
Section 4. The proposed Carson Mall development will have effects as follows:
(a) Beneficial visual and aesthetic effects in that blighted, unused, weed
overgrown and littered land will be converted to an architecturally planned and beautified site
with a harmonizing theme, attractive structures and an enclosed mall surrounded by well -
landscaped parking facilities and green area with adequate setbacks, walls, screening and
landscaping to ensure compatability of storage and loading areas, visible from the Harbor and
San Diego Freeways, and approached by landscaped median divided streets.
(b) Traffic'circulation will be improved by construction of local streets
adequate to handle traffic, by extension of Del Amo Boulevard including bridge construction
over the San Diego Freeway to open circulation to the west and by additional signalization to
promote safety; there will be an accumulation or concentration of vehicles in connection with
servicing the commercial facilities and shopping at the center, but the improved circulation
pattern and convenient freeway access, and the fact that the traffic in the area of the shopping
center is removed from other areas, should result in no overall adverse effect.
(c) Open space of the City wi 11 not be unduly consumed in that in excess of
25% of the area within the City is presently vacant and the proposed development will consume
only 72 acres thereof; adequate areas for open space are available utilizing filled land which
is not suitable for commercial development.
(d) Overflow and water ponding problems relating to the site will be eliminated
by construction of adequate drainage facilities; underground drains, sewers and utilities will
provide adequate service to the site without adverse effect on the surrounding area; there will
be no'significant effect on the water supply which is adequate for the area.
(e) Motor vehicle emissions will be increased in the immediate vicinity of
the shopping center from the anticipated 4,500 automobiles travelling to the shopping center on
a daily average, and this will to some extent increase air pollution in the immediate vicinity of
the project. State and Federal automobile emission controls and newer, stricter standards to be
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effective by 1975 should reduce the emission from automobiles within one to two years after the
center is opened. The location of the center near the geographical area of the City will sub-
stantially shorten the present distances which future patrons must travel for shopping and should
thereby result in less gasoline consumption and less air pollution on a citywide basis.
(f) Some increase in noise level in the vicinity of the development will
accrue from the concentration of people and vehicles at, and travelling to and from, the
shopping center. The shopping facilities will be surrounded by adequate areas for parking and
peripheral walls and landscaping will tend to reduce transition of noise into surrounding areas.
A noise regulation ordinance has been in preparation for many months by the City staff and
commissions and will soon be under consideration by the City Council. When effective the
ordinance should assist in mitigating any noise increase. The increase in noise will be minimal
and such increase must be weighed against other considerations and alternatives.
(g) There are no acceptable alternatives to the project. The community
needs for a certrally located shopping center must be met and there is no better located site
available for this purpose. Residential development of the site would aggravate the need for
shopping facilities without providing a solution. Industrial use of the land would be less
desirable than commercial use and would not serve the public need. The site is too valuable
for agricultural use and is not needed for open space in view of the hundreds -of acres of filled
land in the community which can be used for parks and open=space purposes.
(h) The project is consistent with long-term productivity of the City's land
resources as well as beneficial short-term use of the environment. The project is in accordance
with the most modern concepts of shopping comfort and convenience and should serve the
growing population for many decades.
(i) The environmental changes involved in the project area are on the whole
beneficial to the environment and to the convenience and quality of life in the area which the
project will serve.
(j) The project will serve an area already characterized by rapid growth
which is expected to continue until available areas for such growth are no longer available.
The project may accelerate growth by upgrading the quality of development in the area but
growth would occur without regard to the project.
(k) The project may significantly affect the surrounding area to a distance
of an estimated two-mile radius from the project. On the whole such effects will be beneficial.
Section 5. By reason of the facts herein found the Carson Mall project is
in accord with t epi conservation element of the Carson General Plan. Said project is further
in accordance with the other elements of the General Plan and is in accord with and is the major
development within Carson Redevelopment Agency Project No. 1 which is being implemented
for the correction of blight and redevelopment of the project area.
Section 6. The Environmental Impact Statement prepared by the Carson
Community Deve o—I pment Department and filed with the City Council and said Department and
the Carson Planning Commission is hereby approved and incorporated herein by reference.
Section 7. All of the facts herein found and the determinations herein made
were found and made prior to the issuance of grading permits for said project on June 15, 1972,
prior to the issuance of building permits to Carson Mall on September 15, 1972, to Penney's
on September 21, 1972, and to Broadway on October 5, 1972, and prior to approval of Parcel
Maps 2327, 2538 and 2540 on May 18, 1972, and Parcel Map 2328 on March 24, 1972.
This resolution memorializes facts found and determinations made prior to said dates, and
each and all of said permits and parcel maps are hereby ratified, confirmed and approved.
Section 8. All permits necessary to develop said project known as Carson
Mall in accordance wit the redevelopment project within which said Carson Mall is located,
in further accord with the plans therefor on file with the City of Carson and the Carson
Redevelopment Agency and the ordinances of the City of Carson, may hereafter issue upon
certification by the Director of Community Development that such permits are incidental
to said development. The City Administrator shall report each such issuance of permits to
this City Council.
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Section 9. The City Clerk is hereby directed to certify and transmit
copies of this resolution to the Planning Commission and to the Environmental Commission
of the City of Carson.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 16th day of October, 1972.
MAY
ATTEST:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss
CITY OF CARSON )
I, Marilyn R. Cortina, City Clerk of the City of Carson, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five;
that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 72-179, was duly and regularly adopted
by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said. Council, duly and regularly
held on the 16th day of October, 1972, and that the same was so passed and adopted by
the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Bridgers, Calas, SmithFi Yamamoto & Marbut.
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None.
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None.