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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 Res. No. 72-0179/Page 2 of 3 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. Resolution No. 72-179/Page 3 of 3 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: CITY 0 CL K 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.