Report to Mayor and City Council
Tuesday, June 01, 2021
Special Orders of the Day
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PUBLIC HEARING ON APPEAL OF CARSON PLANNING COMMISSION DECISION ADOPTING PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 21-2708, CONDITIONALLY APPROVING RELOCATION IMPACT REPORT NO. 04-19 FOR MITIGATION OF RELOCATION IMPACTS OF CLOSURE OF RANCHO DOMINGUEZ MOBILE ESTATES (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
This matter is an appeal by Mayor Pro Tem Jim Dear from a decision of the Planning Commission dated April 27, 2021, conditionally approving RIR No. 04-19 (the "RIR") related to the determination of relocation impact mitigation measures required to be taken by Carter-Spencer Enterprises, LLC ("Park Owner") in connection with closure of the Rancho Dominguez Mobile Estates mobilehome park, an 81-space mobilehome park located at 425-435 E. Gardena Blvd ("Park").
The operative appeal was filed by Mayor Pro Tem Jim Dear on April 28, 2021, and accepted as complete on May 5, 2021. One other appeal was also filed, by Ana Zuniga of Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles on behalf of Park resident Leopoldo Guzman (the "Guzman Appeal"), but Mayor Pro Tem Dear's appeal was accepted as complete before the Guzman appeal was filed on May 12, 2021. Although the Guzman appeal was incomplete/deficient due to non-payment of the required application fee, the filer of the appeal has the opportunity to be heard in connection with this appeal hearing. The contentions set forth in the Guzman appeal are addressed in Section 8.B of the background section (section IV) of this report.
The Park Owner has stated it anticipates redeveloping the Park property into "denser workforce housing and possible mixed use appropriate to the industrial location." Attached to the RIR as Exhibit "I," the Park Owner has provided a site/yield study demonstrating potential redevelopment of the property from its current 81 mobilehome spaces into 174 one, two and three-bedroom apartments. However, the Park Owner has not...
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