Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Special Orders of the Day
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A CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER: (1) INTRODUCTION OF ORDINANCE NO. 20-2014 OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON TO APPROVE ENTITLEMENT AGREEMENT NO. 24-18; AND (2) ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 20- 134 OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON AFFIRMING PLANNING COMMISSION'S APPROVAL OF CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NO. 1074-18, AND APPROVING GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 108-18, KL FENIX CONTAINER PARKING SPECIFIC PLAN NO. 18-18, MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION AND MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 53,550 SQUARE FOOT WAREHOUSE AND OFFICE BUILDING, AND A TEMPORARY CONTAINER PARKING FACILITY WITH 475 TRUCK AND CONTAINER PARKING SPACES ON A 14.33 ACRE SITE LOCATED AT 20601 MAIN STREET (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
On August 18, 2020, City Council considered this item in a public hearing (Refer Exhibit 8). At the hearing, several letters of opposition were presented (Refer Exhibit 19). The applicant also presented its concerns and disagreement with certain aspects of the Planning Commission approval (Exhibit 9). After discussion and deliberation on the project, Council voted 3-2 to continue the item for 90 days after directing staff to explore sources of funding for remediation of the organic landfill site.
Staff has worked with the City's public affairs and grant-writing consultants Townsend Public Affairs and California Consulting to search available brownfields funding opportunities appropriate for landfill development. In addition, Staff researched the subject on the State of California grant portal; however, no additional sources of funding were identified through this research. A total of eight state or federal funding opportunities have been identified for brownfield remediation. From the eight funding opportunities, three low-interest rate loan opportunities appeared viable for KL Fenix. The detailed summary of these three...
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