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AGENDA
PLANNING COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING
CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
1315 VALLEY DRIVE
HERMOSA BEACH, CA 90254
June 23, 2014
6:00 P.M.
Kent Allen, Chairman
Michael Flaherty, Vice Chairman
Sam Perrotti
Ron Pizer
Peter Hoffman
Note: No Smoking Is Allowed in the City Hall Council Chambers
THE PUBLIC COMMENT IS LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER
Planning Commission agendas and staff reports are available for review
on the City’s web site at www.hermosabch.org.
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Written materials distributed to the Planning Commission within 72 hours
of the Planning Commission meeting are available for public inspection immediately
upon distribution in the Community Development Department during normal business hours
from Monday through Thursday, 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. and on the City’s website.
Final determinations of the Planning Commission may be appealed to the City Council within
10 days of the next regular City Council meeting date. If the 10th day falls on a Friday
or City holiday, the appeal deadline is extended to the next City business day.
Appeals shall be in written form and filed with the City Clerk's office, accompanied by
an appeal fee. The City Clerk will set the appeal for public hearing before
the City of Hermosa Beach City Council at the earliest date possible.
If you challenge any City of Hermosa Beach decision in court, you may be limited
to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing
described on this agenda, or in a written correspondence delivered to the
Planning Commission at, or prior to, the public hearing.
To comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, Assistive Listening Devices
will be available for check out at the meeting. If you need special assistance to participate
in this meeting, please call or submit your request in writing to the Community Development
Department at (310) 318-0242 at least 48 hours (two working days) prior to the meeting time
to inform us of your needs and to determine if/how accommodation is feasible.
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1. Pledge of Allegiance
2. Roll Call
3. Oral / Written Communications
Anyone wishing to address the Commission regarding a matter not related to a public
hearing on the agenda may do so at this time.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS NOTED BELOW ARE FROM THE PLANNING STAFF AND ARE RECOMMENDATIONS
ONLY. THE FINAL DECISION ON EACH ITEM RESTS WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION. PLEASE DO NOT
ASSUME THAT THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION WILL BE THE ACTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
Public Hearing
4. DA 12-1 / TEXT 12-2 / GP 12-1 -- Certification of Final Environmental Impact Report
(including relevant CEQA documents) and Language for Legislative Amendments (Coastal
Land Use Plan Map and Coastal Energy (Oil and Gas Development) Policies, Zoning and
Municipal Code amendments) and Development Agreement to allow the development of a
1.3-acre Project site at 555 6th Street, Hermosa Beach, currently used as the City
Maintenance Yard, as an onshore oil drilling and production site using directional drilling to
access oil and gas reserves in the tidelands and uplands within the Torrance Oil Field, with
30 production wells, 4 water injection wells, liquid and gas separating equipment, and gas
processing unit, and development of pipelines and associated facilities.
Staff Recommended Action: To adopt the resolutions recommending to the City Council
(a) certification of the Final Environmental Impact Report evaluating the development of
E&B’s Proposed Oil Drilling and Production Project including relocation of the City
Maintenance Yard and confirm language in Mitigation Monitoring Program and Findings
and Statement of Overriding Consideration to be presented to the voters, and (b) the
language for the legislative amendments and Development Agreement to be presented to
the voters in conjunction with the Proposed Oil Drilling and Production Project at 555 6th
Street.
5. Adjournment