PARKING AGREEMENT The commission approved an off-site...

PARKING AGREEMENT

The commission approved an off-site parking agreement, confirming

that Norm Goodin has satisfied his off-site parking requirements for

a charter boat service he intends to open on West Coast Highway.

Goodin purchased a property at 2527 W. Coast Highway with the

intention of relocating his charter boat company, Charter Yachts of

Newport Beach, from Lido Marina Village. He also wants to open a new

yacht club, Pacific Coast Yacht Club, on the second floor of one of

the two buildings on the property.

The number of parking spaces required for Goodin’s desired

operations and existing businesses is 123. Goodin intends to provide

128 parking spaces -- 43 spaces at his property using tandem parking,

35 spaces at 2436 W. Coast Highway and 50 spaces at 2530 W. Coast

Highway. Goodin has parking agreements with the owners of both of

these properties, which are across the street from his. Parking

attendants will be on hand to instruct patrons of the charter service

to park at the off-site lots first and then the on-site lot.

The commission also approved a permit to allow the tandem parking.

This kind of parking will be used weekdays after 5 p.m. and all day

on the weekends in the on-site parking lot for the charter boat

operations.

WHAT IT MEANS

If no one appeals within two weeks, Goodin can go ahead with his

parking arrangements

WIRELESS FACILITY APPLICATION

The commission granted a permit to Nextel Communications to place

its wireless equipment at 20662 Newport Coast Drive, even though such

facilities are not permitted, based on zoning.

The property is a gas-recovery facility, associated with the

closed Coyote Canyon landfill, a quarter-mile from Sage Hill School

and residences to the south.

The site already has wireless equipment from three carriers

allowed by Orange County before Newport Coast was annexed by Newport

Beach. When it was annexed, zoning of the site changed, inadvertently

causing the wireless facilities to not be permitted.

Nextel will add a microwave dish and three panel antennas on an

existing smoke stack. Nextel’s equipment would rise about 40 feet

above ground, while the smokestack is 103 feet. It also will add

three antennas on 20-foot poles in the northeast corner of the

property next to a 12-foot wall. In the southeast corner of the lot,

the company would build a 10-foot high, 240-square-foot equipment

storage facility. Two global-positioning-system antennas will be

placed on the storage facility and exceed it by 1 foot.

WHAT IT MEANS

If no one appeals within two weeks, Nextel can place its wireless

equipment on the property.

BUILDING PERMIT

The commission granted a permit to Biosensors International to add

4,077 square feet for a research and development facility in an

existing office building at 20280 Acacia St. The company already has

office space in the building.

Because the project site is within a business-park district

established by the Santa Ana Heights Specific Plan, the commission

has to give its blessing to research and development uses. The Santa

Ana Heights Project Advisory Committee reviewed the expansion

proposal and has no objections, according to the staff report.

WHAT IT MEANS

If no one appeals within two weeks, the company can start adding

the extra space.