08-17-2020 -105 & 180 S Water St - Fire Station No 1LEGAL NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION
PUBLIC HEARING/ZONE CHANGE NO. 1301-20, NOTICE
OF INTENT TO ADOPT MITIGATED NEGATIVE
DECLARATION NO. 1862-18, AND TENTATIVE PARCEL
MAP NO. 0016-20
TO: All Interested Parties
SUBJECT: Zone Change No. 1301-20, Mitigated Negative Declaration No. 1862-
18, and Tentative Parcel Map No. 0016-20, Orange Fire Station No. 1
and Headquarters Project
SCHEDULED PUBLIC
HEARING
DATE/TIME/LOCATION:
August 17, 2020
7:00 P.M. (or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard)
Pursuant to the Governor’s State of California Executive Order N-
29-20, dated March 17, 2020, and given the health risk associated
with COVID-19, this hearing may be conducted utilizing video
conferencing and electronic means. Members of the public can
access meetings on Spectrum Cable Channel 3 and AT&T U-verse
Channel 99, and streamed live and on-demand on the City’s website
at www.cityoforange.org. Should the Governor’s order remain in
effect, members of the public may not be permitted to attend the
meeting in person but comments received prior to the meeting will
be considered as part of the deliberation process.
Please refer to the August 17, 2020, Planning Commission agenda
to be posted on the City’s website at www.cityoforange.org for
location details and updates.
PROJECT LOCATION: 105 S. Water Street, Orange, California
PROJECT
DESCRIPTION:
The proposed project includes construction of a new Fire Station No. 1,
which will be approximately 16,574 square feet in size, as well as an
attached two-story headquarters which will include approximately
11,353 square feet of space. In addition, the existing storage building
located on the site will be retrofitted and refurbished and will provide
approximately 3,780 square feet of space to serve as reserve apparatus
storage for the new facility. The parking lot for the proposed project
will be located across Water Street mid-block to the west and will
consist of two ungated visitor spots, two automated security gates, and
approximately 54 gated staff parking stalls. The project proposes a
zone change of the main fire station and headquarters parcel from
Office Professional (O-P) and Single Family Res. 6,000 sq. ft. (R-1-6)
to Public Institution (P-I) for consistency with the existing General Plan
Land Use designation of Public Facilities Max 0.5 FAR and Institutions
Max 2.0 FAR (PFI). A tentative parcel map is proposed to merge lots
to create a single lot for the fire station and headquarters building.
PROJECT APPLICANT: City of Orange Fire Department
LEAD AGENCY: City of Orange, 176 S. Grand Street, Orange, CA 92866
ENVIRONMENTAL
INFORMATION:
Mitigated Negative Declaration No. 1862-18 was prepared to evaluate
the potential environmental impacts of the proposed project in
accordance with the provisions of the California Environmental Quality
Act. The City invites you to comment on the Mitigated Negative
Declaration. The public review period begins on June 25, 2020 and ends
on July 25, 2020. Written comments must be received in the offices of
the City of Orange Division Public Works Department,
Design/Construction Division at 300 East Chapman Avenue, Orange,
CA 92866, or via email at edlopez@cityoforange.org, by 5:30 P.M. on
July 25, 2020.
Copies of the Mitigated Negative Declaration are available for public
review at the following locations:
Orange City Hall, Offices of the City Clerk and Community
Development Department, 300 East Chapman Avenue, Orange,
CA 92866
https://www.cityoforange.org/292/Project-NoticesRelated-
Environmental-Doc
FURTHER
INFORMATION:
To obtain further information about the project, please contact Eduardo
Lopez at the City of Orange Public Works Department,
Design/Construction Division at (714) 744-5527 or via e-mail at
edlopez@cityoforange.org.
If you challenge any decision to approve this request in court, you may be limited to raising only those
issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in a written
correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or prior to, the public hearing.