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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAGENDA REPORT 1993 0106 CC REG ITEM 08P._. - -___._ 1,.2I• ' I �lC� {, X11 T. �'' ;n,� TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Background: Ala, /A0 cy-7 > MOORPARK STEM 8• Pt. 799 Moorpark Avenue Moorpark, California 93021 AGENDA REPORT The Honorable City Council (805) 529 -6864 d 199-7 ACTiO;J: N Jim R. Aguilera, Director of Community Development Uv December 23, 1992 (CC meeting of 1/6/93) CONSIDER A REPORT ON APPROVAL AUTHORITY FOR A MAJOR MODIFICATION TO DEVELOPMENT PLAN PERMIT NO. DP -318 At the City Council meeting of December 16, 1992 Mr. Newton presented the Council with a proposal from the Kavlico Corporation to expand their existing facility. Mr. Newton is proposing that the Council consider allowing the Planning Commission to be the final approving body for the Kavlico expansion project. The Council expressed their concerns that the Planning Commission members may change and apparently the Council felt uncomfortable having such a large project reviewed by what could be an inexperienced planning commission. The Council then directed staff to return this item to the Council's next regular meeting for further discussion. Discussion: Staff has further researched the issue and has found the following: o Staff will process the Kavlico application as a major modification to Development Plan Permit No. 318; o Resolution No. 88 -523 states that a major modification be approved or denied by the approving authority of the parent development permit (in this case the City Council). CI Resolution No. 88 -523 further states that the Planning Commissions' role in such a case is as a recommending body. JRA:crl sAoourxxN avlico.2 PAUL W. LAWRASON JR. BERNARDO M. PEREZ SCOTT MONTGOMERY ROY E. TALLEY JR. JOHN E. WOZNIAK Mayor Mayor Pro Tem Councilmember Councilmember Councilmember The Honorable City Council December 30, 1992 Page -2- o This resolution is not based on State law or a City ordinance and therefore may be modified as the Council directs. o Section 15074(a) of the California Environmental Quality Act states that if there is an advisory body they shall consider the proposed negative declaration prior to making their recommendation. However, Section 15074(b) states that it is the decision- making body which has approval authority of the negative declaration. Given the above facts it's been the City's practice to have major modifications considerd by the final approving body (Ventura Pacific Capital Group - CPD- 89 -2). In this case staff would consider the City Council to be the final approving body and in the interest of time and keeping with past practices would not ask the Planning Commission for a review and recommendation. Recommendation: Receive and file this report. JRA:cd m:bound kavlioo.2 7/0 • 061 ) John W. Newton & Associates, Inc. F77 r 1 1992 Pco`essiona.0 Consultants Asadurian Professional Building CITY OF MOORPARK 165 High St., Suite 204 OFFICE OF WY MANAGER Post Office Box 471 Moorpark, California 93021 Telephone (805) 529-3651 December 11 , 1992 The Honorable Paul Lawrason , Jr . Mayor , and Honorable Members of The City Council 799 Moorpark Avenue Moorpark , California 93021 Re : Kavlico Corporation DP-318 (Industrial) Development Permit EXPEDITED MODIFICATION Dear Mayor Lawrason and Members of The Council: • The attached letter from Mr . Fred Kavli succinctly states the case and purpose behind the current City effort to expedite the Company ' industrial expansion application , recognizing that occupancy is required by September , 1993 , if we are to retain this important hj. h technology firm in Moorpark . Time is critical , as stated , and as has been coined in a ,%ariety of disciplines , "timing is everything . " Moorpark is extremely fcrtun::u to be able to share Kavlico ' s good fortune , the award of new contracts in its domestic manufacturing operation (automobile emission control sensors ) , by receiving 250-300 new job opportunities . In light of the loss of the 600 employee Litton Aero Products company, relocating to Woodland Hills . the expansion of Kavlicc is timely indeed . To further expedite the process we request that the City Council , by policy direction , authorize the Planning Commission to be the final approval authority for the Kavlico expansion [I] DP-318 , MOD-1 , by providing for a "ONE-TIME , SINGLE CASE EXCEPTION TO RESOLUTION NO . 88-523 (attached) , SECTION 6 . g . " Justification for this action is as follows : 1 . The application to add an additional 94 , 000 S . F . business- park building to the Kavlico complex has been deemed to be a Modification of existing [I] DP-318 . 2. Road widening and grading is essentially complete rendering site improvements to be primarily the extension of utilities , and expanded parking and landscaping as- appropriate to accomodate the additional building . REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE MINERAL REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT Cornmerciol • industrial • Land RESOURCE Engineering• Land Division • Permits Residential Relocation DEVELOPMENT Planning • Zoning Mayor and Members of The City Council December 11 , 1992 Page 2 3 . Preliminary design proposes to ensure architectural compatibility with the existing Kavlico facility , and the adjacent industrial/business-park area . 4 . The site is located in a previously approved industrial/ business-park area , and is specifically zoned M-1 , Industrial Park . 5 . There are no known environmental impacts related to the expansion that have not already been mitigated , or cannot now be mitigated , and the preliminary staff indication related to pre-submittal inquiries is that the Initial Study is anticipated to result in a CEQA determination of "ND" , Negative Declaration . 6 . Consultation with staff has resulted in their support of this request , subject to City Council approval . 7 . The Planning Commission has demonstrated its ability to handle projects of this magnitude in the past , and expedited projects recently , most notably , McDonald ' s . 8 . A minimum of one ( 1) month could be saved in the application process by not requiring the project to reach final conclusion at the City Council level assuming , even if expedited , a Council hearing following the last P . C . hearing by at least two (2) weeks , and two (2) weeks to final adoption of the Resolution by the Council . 9 . And finally , the Council gives up nothing on the basis that it can appeal any Planning Commission decision which does not meet with City Council ultimate concurrence . 10 . The Moorpark Economic Development Committee is considering and studying potential future recommendations to the City Council regarding changing approval authorities to the lowest possible level as a means of streamlining the process for all projects , consistent with recently adopted General Plan policy . This is an excellent opportunity to test the advisability and feasibility of authorizing P . C . and Staff final decisions in , for example , pre-approved ( zoned) , partially built- out commercial and industrial areas . Again , timing is extremely critical in this important case . An additional month of processing time savings could be the very key to the success of the proposed occupancy/operations schedule so critical to the Mayor and Members of The City Council December 11 , 1992 Page 3 retention of this business , assuming ultimate approval of the project . To that end , Kavlico has committed to an above average , quality , application submittal proposing a project which will meet or exceed minimum City standards . Your consideration of this matter as an urgency item will be very much appreciated by Kavlico and the professional project team assembled by Mr . Kavli to complete the Company ' s critical objective of occupancy/ in-operation by September , 1993 . Thank you . cerely , /John W . Newton Project Consultant Attachments cc : Councilmembers : Scott Montgomery , Bernardo Perez , John Wozniak , Patrick Hunter Steven Kueny , City Manager Michael Wesner , Chairman , Planning Commission Commissioners : Tina May , Bart Miller , John Torres , Steve Brodsky Jim Aguilera , Director Community Development Department Paul Porter , Senior Planner Project Case Planner Dirk Lovett , Ass ' t City Engineer Dennis Roy , Architect Bill Snow , Civil Engineer Terry Murphy , Traffic engineer Fred Kavli , Kavlico Corporation 41WACIIII=Ca CORPORATION (B FRED KAVLI Chairman December 11, 1992 The Honorable Mayor Paul Lawrason,Jr. City of Moorpark 799 Moorpark Avenue Moorpark,CA 93021 Dear Mayor Lawrason: I have an immediate requirement for building an expansion facility on my property immediately to the south of Kavlico's present location. The award of new contracts to Kavlico has created an urgent need for additional manufacturing space. Along with these additional facilities will come an estimated 250- 300 new job opportunities for members of our community. I am requesting the support of the City Council, the Planning Commission,City Staff, and yourself in expediting our project which has an extremely aggressive schedule. This project is important in retaining jobs for the community and for the county. I am pleased with the present support demonstrated by staff and their willingness to work with us in meeting this schedule. With everyone's continued efforts,we will be successful in completing this project during the third quarter of 1993 and expanding Kavlico's employment opportunities in Moorpark. Very truly yours, cc: Jim Aguilera,Director of Community Development Steve Brodski, City Planning Commissioner Patrick Hunter,City Council Member Steven Kueny,City Manager Tina May,City Planning Commissioner Bart Miller,City Planning Commissioner Scott Montgomery,City Council Member Bernardo Perez,City Council Member John Torres,City Planning Commissioner Mike Wesner,City Planning Commissioner John Wozniak,City Council Member 14501 Las Angeles Avenue • Moorpark, California 93021 USA • (805) 523-2000 • Telex 65-1<'H ' FAX (805) 523-7125 After threatening to leave the area, Moorpark's largest employer has won con- cessions from the city in a bid to nearly City Offers double the size of its manufacturing plant and add 300 new employees. In negotiationsCorp. fcis over the e two weeks, Concessions Kavlico Corp, officials said they would be forced to relocate if the city did not quickly process its application to expand so it could hire the workers needed to fulfill a new in IEEffO rt tO manufacturing contract. The company, which now has roughly 800 employees, makes electronic sensors for the automotive and aerospace Indus- KeepKavlico tries and is one of the largest 20 employers in Ventura County. Moorpark's effort to retain Kavlico is just Moorpark:■ Officials S one example of a trend on the part of local willI officials to accommodate existing industries approval for plant expansion. and lure others by making it easier for The major employer saysit them to do business. "There are very few places in Southern would have relocated otherwise. California and certainly Ventura County where governments find they have money to give businesses and say,'Here's a carrot, By JAMES MAIELLA JR. so stay,'" said county Supervisor Maggie SPEC1A1,TO TtiE TIMES Kildee. "But in Ventura County, cities are meeting with businesses and working out their problems and, indeed, they are stay- ing." Jim Aguilera, Moorpark's director of community development, has met with KAVLICO: Concessions Offered Kavlico representatives three times to discuss how the city could speed processing Continued from B1 plant and will move all operations of an application to expand the firm's Friday. But Tackman did discuss out of the city this month. current 100,000-square-foot plant by an the firm's plans at a meeting of the Moorpark Mayor Paul Lawrason additional 94,000 square feet. "They just landed a contract that re- county's Council on Economic Vi- mid the city did not want to lose tality on Wednesday. another major employer in Kavlico. quires more facilities and more workers," "He was giving this to us as an "We will do everything we can Aguilera said Friday. "They have to ex- example of someone who had op- to make sure [the application] pand. Whether they do it in Moorpark or portunities to move to sites in other moves along quickly," Lawrason somewhere else depends on who can meet states and who had done some said Friday. "Considering the eco- their deadlines,and we can." research and found the city of nomic situation right now,we need Aguilera said Kavlico needed the new Moorpark accommodating and de- all of the businesses that are in the building up and running by September, cided to stay," said Marshall Milli- city at the present time to remain. 1993, to service the contract and would gan, president of the Bank of A. The retention of businesses is a have left if the city could not meet that Levy and a co-chairman of the very important focus for us right deadline. advisory council with Kildee. now." Kavlico is scheduled to apply for the "My impression is that the ac- Lawrason said the city would not major modification to its plant on Dec. 21 commodating attitude is what overlook flaws in the application in and the matter will go before the city made a lot of difference," Milligan an attempt to make Kavlico happy. Planning Commission in January, Aguilera said. "I would not rush it through and said, the fastest turnaround time for any Litton Aero Products, a Los wind up missing something or not such application in recent memory. Angeles-based defense contractor doing it right," Lawrason said. "I Bruce Tackman,Kavlico's chief financial that had been Moorpark's largest would not tolerate us not doing a officer,declined comment on the expansion employer, announced in March good job on it. There is a limit here Please see RAVLICO,111 that it was closing its Moorpark in terms of fast-tracking it." RESOLUTION NO. 88-523 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, DIRECTING THAT CERTAIN PERMIT APPROVAL PROCESSES BE PREFORMED BY CERTAIN CITY OFFICIALS; AND THE REPEALING OF RESOLUTION NO. 86-276. Whereas Resolution No. 86-276 prescribes the city offices that approves various permits; and Whereas, the City Council as well as the staff have recommended changes to said approval authority; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Resolution No. 86-276, entitled: A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA PRESCRIBE THAT CERTAIN PERMIT APPROVAL PROCESS BE PREFORMED BY CERTAIN CITY OFFICIALS AND THE REPEALING OF ALL RESOLUTIONS IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. adopted February 18, 1986 is hereby rescinded. Section 2. Where the Planning Commission is authorized to C approve or disapprove an entitlement herein, such decision is appealable to the City Council. Where the Director of Community Development is authorized to approve or disapprove an entitlement and subsequently to the City Council. Section 3. A request for a Modification to an entitlement herein shall be deemed a "Minor Modification" , as determined by the Director of Community Development, when such a modification does not alter the intent of the determining body. All other modifications are deemed "Major Modifications". Section 4. Major Modifications shall be approved or disapproved by the official of body granting the original approval or an appeal thereof, and shall be processed in the same manner as the original approval. Section 5. Where the City Council is the body with approving or disapproving authority, the action shall first be processed through the Planning Commission for its recommendation. Section 6. Approval or disapproval shall be performed by the following City offices of Officials: a. General Plan Adoption - City Council \ b. General Plan Amendment - City Council A • c. Ordinance Adoption/Amendment - City Council d. Zone Change - City Council e. Residential Planned Development Permits - Planning Commission for proposals of four units or less; City Council for proposals of for more than four units. f. Commercial Planned Development Permits - Planning Commission for proposals of less than 20,000 square feet of gross floor area; City Council for proposals of 20,000 square feet or more of gross floor area. g. Industrial Planned Development Permits - Planning Commission for proposals containing less than 20,000 square feet of gross floor area for all buildings involved; City Council for proposals of 20,000 square feet or more of gross floor area for all buildings involved. All new construction, regardless of gross floor area size that is within three hundred feet (300' ) of a residential zone or use shall require City Council approval. h. Administrative Clearance - Director of Community Development. i. Director Conditional Use Permit - Planning Commission. j . Planning Commission Condition Use Permit - Planning Commission. k. Tentative and Final Tract Map - City Council. 1. Parcel Map and Parcel Map Waiver - Planning Commission. m. Lot Line Adjustment and Lot Consolidation - Director of Community Development. A. n. Minor Modification - Director of Community Development. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 29th day of November , of 1988. PC-41 hn Patrick Lane , Mayor ATTEST: Cq Ito . . / . / '_ ` ' Maureen W. Wall, City Clerk rite - •'1!� z ro MOORPARK JOHN GALLOWAY STEVEN KUENY Mayor City Manager ELOISE BROWN o '`, CHERYL J. KANE IC Mayor Pro Tern City Attorney .;LINT HARPER.Ph.D. � PATRICK RICHARDS,A.I.C.P. Councilmember �� '� Director of JOHN PATRICK LANE ?,a Community Development Councilmember %% a R. DENNIS DELZEIT MAUREEN W.WALL City Engineer City Clerk o JOHN V.GILLESPIE THOMAS P.GENOVESE Chief of Police City Treasurer STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF VENTURA ) SS. CITY OF MOORPARK ) I, Maureen W. Wall , City Clerk of the City of Moorpark, California, do hereby certify under penalty of perjury' that the foregoing Resolution No. 88-523 was adopted by the City Council of the City of Moorpark at a meeting held on the 29th day of November , 1988, and that the same was adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Brown, Harper, Perez and Mayor Lane. NOES: None. ABSENT: Councilmember Galloway. ABSTAIN: None. WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 7th day of December , 1988. Maureen W. Wall ' City Clerk ( seal ) • 799 Moorpark Avenue Moorpark, California 93021 (805) 529-6864