City Council Agenda
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Memo to: |
Manteca City Council |
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Barbara Harb, Interim Director of Development Services |
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Prepared by: |
Jesus R. Orozco, Deputy Director of Development Services, Planning |
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December 17, 2024 |
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Subject: |
Manteca Citywide Rezone (MCA 24-0055) |
Recommendation:
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Conduct a public hearing; make a Finding of Consistency pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15168; and waive the first reading by substitution of the title and introduce an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Manteca, State of California, repealing the existing Zoning Map and adopting a new Zoning Map under Section 17.20.040 of Chapter 17.20 of Title 17 of the Manteca Municipal Code.
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Background:
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Pursuant to Government Code section 65300, cities and counties are required to prepare and adopt general plans to guide them in the long-range development of their communities. General plans must include eight mandatory, internally consistent elements including land use, circulation, conservation, open space, safety, noise, environmental justice, and housing, and must address air quality and climate adaptation.
In 2023, the City adopted a comprehensive update to the City’s General Plan (2043 General Plan) to serve as a blueprint for growth over the next 20 years. The City Council adopted a City-initiated update to the 2043 General Plan Land Use and Circulation Elements on March 5, 2024. The 2043 General Plan replaced the City’s 2023 General Plan, which was adopted on October 6, 2003.
Following the General Plan Update the City also undertook an update to its’ Housing Element. State law requires that each Housing Element accommodate and facilitate the development of housing to meet a city or county’s fair share housing needs. The City Council adopted the 6th Cycle Housing Element (Housing Element) on October 1, 2024. The Manteca Citywide Rezone and the associated update to the City’s Zoning Map implement the 2043 General Plan and Housing Element.
The proposed Manteca Citywide Rezone project amends the City’s Zoning Map, replacing the existing Zoning Map with an updated map that is consistent with the 2043 General Plan and the Housing Element. To provide context for the Zoning Map update, Attachment 5 provides the 2043 General Plan Land Use Map (Figure LU-2), Attachment 6 provides the descriptions of the 2043 General Plan land use designations (Land Use Element Table LU-1), and Attachment 7 provides the descriptions of the existing zoning districts (Zoning Ordinance Table 17.20.020-1). The 2043 General Plan establishes new zoning districts, Business Professional and Agricultural Industrial, that will be addressed in the Zoning Ordinance text revisions. Notes on the Zoning Map provide for the existing zoning to continue to be applied to sites that are zoned with the new Business Professional district until the adoption of the updated Zoning Ordinance text. The Agricultural Industrial District is not applied to sites within the City limits.
The 2043 General Plan includes an updated Land Use Map (GP Land Use Map), which identifies the desired and planned land uses throughout the City and Planning Area. This GP Land Use Map resulted in inconsistencies between the existing Zoning Map and the GP Land Use Map. The updated Zoning Map will resolve those inconsistencies.
The update to the Zoning Map will also rezone some sites to implement Housing Element Program 3. Additional revisions to the Zoning Ordinance text will be made to further implement Program 3, as well as additional Housing Element programs. To ensure consistency with the specific requirements of Program 3 related to paragraphs (h) and (i) of Government Code Section 65583.2, notes are added to the Zoning Map to ensure that the requirements of Government Code Section 65583.2 are applied to applicable Housing Element sites. It is anticipated that the notes will be integrated into the Zoning Ordinance text revisions and will be removed from the Zoning Map upon adoption of the updated Zoning Ordinance text.
PROJECT LOCATION:
Citywide.
PROJECT ANALYSIS:
For a full analysis of the project, please see Attachment 4, Planning Commission Staff Report.
PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING:
At the December 4, 2024, Special Planning Commission Meeting, the Commission passed a resolution recommending that the City Council make the necessary CEQA findings and adopt an Ordinance repealing the current Zoning Map and adopting a new Zoning Map. At said meeting, the Kaiser Permanente land use team provided testimony as it related to the recommended rezoning of their project area. There was no additional public comment provided at that meeting.
At said Special meeting of the Planning Commission the Planning Commission passed a resolution, 5-0, recommending the City Council make the appropriate CEQA findings and adopt an ordinance adopting the Zoning Map included as Attachment 2. The Planning Commission did not recommend any changes to the Ordinance.
Following the December 4, 2024, Special Planning Commission Meeting, Kaiser Permanente requested to meet with staff regarding the proposed zoning designations for their project site. Following the conversation with Kaiser Permanente and after reviewing the General Plan Land Use Map for the Kaiser Permanente project site, the entirety of the Kaiser Permanente project site, nine (9) Kaiser Permanente owned parcels have been updated from the Business Professional (BP) to the Public-Quasi Public (PQP) zoning designation consistent with the rest of the Kaiser Permanente project site.
Such an adjustment is supported by Policy LU-8.4 in the 2043 General Plan, “Policy Area 2 is located along West Yosemite Avenue and Airport Way as shown in Figure LU-5. The primary land uses within Policy Area 2 are envisioned to be uses that support the expansion and retention of the Kaiser Permanente facility, creation of a high-transit use corridor and linkages to a future nearby transit center, and provide connectivity to the Family Entertainment Zone and other destinations. Development within this area may include transit-oriented development, business and medical offices, commercial, recreation, and high and medium density residential, with appropriate transitions and buffers where residences would be located adjacent industrial, wastewater processing, and other intensive uses. Vertical, mixed-use development is encouraged, with a 20% density bonus provided for all mixed-use developments that go above the 25% minimum of the developed area as commercial or office uses.”
Additionally, the project area commonly referred to the Yosemite Square approved as part of amended Master Plan located south Yosemite Ave. and west of Austin Rd. has been updated to the Master Plan (MP) zoning designation. was updated to a Public-Quasi Public (PQP) Zoning designation.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
When an EIR has been certified for a project, Public Resources Code Section 21166 and CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162 and 15164 set forth the criteria for determining whether a subsequent EIR, subsequent negative declaration, addendum, or no further documentation be prepared in support of further agency action on the project. The City reviewed the changes to the 2043 General Plan (Original Project) as analyzed in the General Plan EIR to determine if the Manteca Citywide Rezone (Modified Project) would require a subsequent EIR, subsequent negative declaration, addendum, or no further documentation, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15168(c). As described in the Finding of Consistency provided as Attachment 3, the Manteca Citywide Rezone would result in no new significant environmental effects and no substantial increase in the severity of previously identified environmental effects, and no new information of substantial importance that would require major changes to the Original Project EIR pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a) has been identified. As demonstrated in the Finding of Consistency, the Manteca Citywide Rezone would result in no new significant environmental effects and no substantial increase in the severity of previously identified environmental effects, and no new information of substantial importance that would require major changes to the Original Project EIR pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a) has been identified. The scope of the Manteca Citywide Rezone is consistent with the allowable land use, overall planned density and building intensity, geographic area analyzed for environmental impacts, and covered infrastructure, as described in the General Plan EIR. Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15168(c)(5), as the Manteca Citywide Rezone is within the scope of the General Plan EIR, no further environmental documents are required. The General Plan EIR can be found via the following link at <https://manteca.generalplan.org/>.
Fiscal Impact:
There is no fiscal impact directly associated with this action.
Documents Attached:
Attachment 1 - Ordinance
Attachment 2 - Exhibit A-1 Zoning Map
Attachment 3 - Exhibit A-2 Finding of Consistency
Attachment 4 - Planning Commission Staff Report
Attachment 5 - 2043 General Plan Land Use Map
Attachment 6 - 2043 General Plan Land Use Designations
Attachment 7 - Current Zoning Districts Description
Attachment 8 - Zoning Map Changes
Attachment 9 - Kaiser Permanente Comment Letter from Dec. 4, 2024, Special Planning Commission Meeting