INSIDE CITY HALL Here are some of...

INSIDE CITY HALL

Here are some of the items the commission will consider Monday:

MOBILE HOME CONVERSION ORDINANCE

The commission will consider approving a mobile home conversion

ordinance.

On July 7, the City Council directed planning staff to change the

city’s procedures for mobile home park conversions. The city’s

present procedure is limited. In preparing the draft ordinance,

planners reviewed the ordinances of cities such as Laguna Beach and

Huntington Beach, as well as the Golden State Manufactured Home

Owners League.

The proposed changes to the zoning code will expand the city’s

procedures to include mobile home park closures in addition to mobile

home park conversions. The draft ordinance specifies the procedure

required for a mobile home park conversion/closure and what

constitutes “reasonable costs of relocation” when the commission

considers a mobile home park closure report.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Planning staffers recommends the provision of the ordinance be

applied to pending mobile home park conversion applications such as

the one filed by Joe Brown to turn the El Nido and Snug Harbor

Village parks into a medical office building.

POLICE FACILITY EXPANSION

The commission will consider a request for an extension from the

police department.

Last October, the commission approved the final master plan that

allows the construction of an 11,000-square-foot expansion of the

police facility. The police department is requesting a one-year time

extension, which will allow building permits to be obtained for

improvements to the basement.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Planning staff recommends approval because the extension will

provide sufficient time.

PLANNING APPLICATION

The commission will consider an application from Tim and Doug

DeCinces to build a four-unit, two-story development with an

exception from open space requirements.

The development is a revised version of an originally proposed

five-unit project that had additional exceptions for things such as

the parking requirements. The Planning Commission originally

considered the request in July, but continued it to give the DeCinces

more time to redesign the proposed development.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Planning staff feels that there is no justification to approve the

exception from open space. The proposed plans reflect an overbuilding

of the lot and would constitute a grant of special privileges not

enjoyed by similar projects that have been approved recently.