Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

CALL TO ORDER

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

ROLL CALL

PUBLIC COMMENTS

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REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCES

MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 17, 2026

Recommended Action: Approve and file. Draft minutes of September 17, 2026

DOVE POINT RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUMS (PA2026-0050)

Site Location: 901 and 1001 Dove Street Summary: The Applicant requests authorization to develop a 75-unit residential condominium community on two existing contiguous legal lots. The project will require the demolition of two existing multi-tenant office buildings and merging of the two lots to create a single 3.23-acre building site. The proposed condominiums consist of two- and three-bedroom units, ranging from approximately 1,860 to 3,354 square feet, distributed among eight, detached, four-story buildings with a maximum height of 55 feet above the established grade. The community will provide resident-serving amenities including an outdoor barbecue area with seating and an additional seating area, each with an activity lawn. A publicly accessible pedestrian strada will also be provided, improved with six-foot-wide pathways and shaded seating buffered from the street with landscaping along the Dove Street and Quail Street frontages. Vehicular access to the site will be provided through an existing curb opening on Dove Street and a new curb opening on Quail Street. The following entitlements are required to implement the project: - Major Site Development Review (SDR): Required for any project proposing five or more residential units with a tract map. The SDR also allows for deviations from objective design standards. - Vesting Tentative Tract Map (VTTM): Required to merge the two properties into a single building site and to allow the airspace subdivision of the individual residential units for condominium purposes. Recommended Actions: 1. Conduct a public hearing; 2. Find that this project is not subject to further environmental review pursuant to Section 21083.3 of the California Public Resources Code (PRC) and Section 15183 of the CEQA Guidelines because the project is consistent with the previously certified Program Environmental Impact Report (SCH No. 2023060699); and 3. Adopt Resolution No. PC2026-028 approving the Major Site Development Review and Vesting Tentative Tract Map, filed as PA2026-0050.

CORPORATE PLAZA PLANNED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN AMENDMENT (PA2026-0043)

Site Location: 17 Corporate Plaza Summary: A request to amend the Corporate Plaza Planned Community (PC-17) Development Plan to increase the maximum allowable floor area that can be used for medical or dental office use within Building Site No. 17 by 11,534 gross square feet (from 11,200 gross square feet to 22,734 gross square feet) and to remove the second-floor restriction on medical and dental office uses. The amendment will commensurately increase the overall floor area within PC-17 that can be used for medical and dental offices from 84,928 gross square feet to 96,462 gross square feet. Recommended Actions: 1. Conduct a public hearing; 2. Find this action is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 21065 of the California Public Resources Code and State CEQA Guidelines Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment). The proposed action is also exempt pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) because it has no potential to have a significant effect on the environment; and 3. Adopt Resolution No. PC2026-029, recommending the City Council approve the Planned Community Development Plan Amendment to allow additional medical and dental office uses (PA2026-0043).

UTILITY AND MECHANICAL ROOM GROSS FLOOR AREA EXCLUSION AMENDMENT (PA2026-0159)

Site Location: Citywide Summary: Consistent with the City Council's initiation on August 25, 2026, the proposed amendments to Title 20 (Planning and Zoning) and Title 21 (Local Coastal Program Implementation Plan) of the Newport Beach Municipal Code (NBMC) would authorize the Community Development Director to exclude utility and mechanical equipment rooms from the gross floor area of a nonresidential structure. The exclusion would be limited to a maximum of 10% of the total gross floor area. Recommended Actions: 1. Conduct a public hearing 2. Find this action is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 21065 of the California Public Resources Code and State CEQA Guidelines Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment), 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a projects as defined in Section 15378 of the CEQA Guidelines). The proposed action is also exempt pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3) because it has no potential to have a significant effect on the environment; and 3. Adopt Resolution No. PC2026-030 (Attachment No. PC1) recommending the City Council approve the Zoning Code Amendment and authorize staff to submit the Local Coastal Program Amendment to the California Coastal Commission (PA2026-0159).

MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION

REPORT BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR OR REQUEST FOR MATTERS WHICH A PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBER WOULD LIKE PLACED ON A FUTURE AGENDA

REQUESTS FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES

ADJOURNMENT