Downtown Plans on View
and Available for Comment
Downtown Specific Plan
Draft Environmental Impact Report No. 08-001 for The
Downtown Specific Plan Update was prepared and available for public review and comment for
forty-five (45) days commencing Monday, July 20, 2009
and ending Wednesday, September 2, 2009. A copy of Draft EIR No. 08-001 is on file with the Department of
Planning, City of Huntington Beach City Hall, 2000 Main
Street, Huntington Beach, California. Draft EIR No.
08-001 is also available for review in the City Clerk’s
office, City Hall, 2nd Floor, 2000 Main Street; the Main
Street Branch Library, 525 Main Street, Huntington
Beach, CA 92648, the Rodgers Senior Center, 1706 Orange
Avenue, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 and on the Internet
at surfcity-hb.org/CityDepartments/planning/major/DTSP.
A public comment meeting was held during the review
period to take comments related to the adequacy of the
environmental issues analyzed within the Draft EIR. The
comment meeting on Thursday, August 13,
2009, began at 6:00 PM in Room B8, City Hall – Lower
Level 2000 Main Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92648. Any
person wishing to comment on the request was allowed to do so in
writing during the forty-five (45) day comment period by
providing written comments to Jennifer Villasenor,
Associate Planner, City of Huntington Beach Planning
Department, 2000 Main Street, Huntington Beach, CA
92648.
Draft Environmental Impact Report No. 08-001 for the
Downtown Specific Plan Update analyzes the potential
environmental impacts associated with a City-initiated
proposal to update Specific Plan No. 5 – Downtown
Specific Plan (DTSP). The project proposes to
reconfigure the existing 11 Specific Plan districts into
7 districts, modify development and parking standards,
incorporate design guidelines and provide
recommendations for street improvements, public
amenities, circulation enhancements, infrastructure and
public facility improvements and parking strategies.
The project also proposes revised parking requirements
and modified parking ratios, the elimination of the
Downtown Parking Master Plan concept, a Cultural Arts
Overlay in the northern portion of the DTSP area on the
site of the existing Main Street Branch library, a
Neighborhood Overlay on 1st and 2nd Street between
Walnut Avenue and Orange Avenue, and the elimination of
the Resource Production Overlay in District 8 of the
existing DTSP, although provisions for continued oil
recovery remain in the proposed DTSP Update. |
