SR - ORD-01-16 - SECOND READINGORDINANCE NO. 01-16
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ORANGE APPROVING ZONE CHANGE
1275 -14, A ZONE CHANGE FROM PUBLIC
INSTITUTION (SPECIFIC PLAN) TO OLD TOWNE
MIXED USE -15 (SPECIFIC PLAN).
CITY OF ORANGE
METROLINK PARKING STRUCTURE PROJECT
130 N. LEMON STREET
WHEREAS, the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) is working to expand
Metrolink service in Orange County and at full roll out projects that the Orange station will need
900 parking spaces to accommodate demand; and
WHEREAS, the Orange Transportation Center (OTC) currently has 375 spaces; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to construct a parking structure in cooperation with OCTA
and in early 2009 entered into a cooperative agreement with OCTA to plan for a new parking
structure to serve the OTC and the Metrolink Service Expansion; and
WHEREAS, the City retained a design firm to prepare project concepts and design plans
and held a series of community workshops between 2010 and 2013; and
WHEREAS, schematic design plans for the Metrolink Parking Structure Project were
completed in 2014; and
WHEREAS, the project site has an existing General Plan land use designation of Old
Towne Mixed Use (OTMU), 6 to 15 dwelling units per acre; and
WHEREAS, the project site is zoned both Public Institution (Specific Plan) denoted PI
(SP) and Old Towne Mixed Use -15 (Specific Plan) denoted OTMU -15 (SP); and
WHEREAS, according to Table LU -3 in the General Plan Land Use Element, the portion
of the project site zoned PI (SP) is inconsistent with the site's existing OTMU (6 to 15 dwelling
units per acre) General Plan land use designation; and
WHEREAS, California Government Code §65860 requires consistency between a city's
General Plan and zoning; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to change site zoning from PI (SP) to OTMU -15 (SP), which
would bring the project site zoning into consistency with the General Plan; and
WHEREAS, on May 27, 2015, City departments reviewed the Metrolink Parking
Structure Project including the Zone Change and recommended the project proceed to hearings
subject to certain requirements and conditions; and
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