HomeMy WebLinkAbout18274 - RESOLUTIONS - 1/19/1994 RESOLUTION NO, 18274
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING A GENERAL
PLAN AMENDMENT FOR THE CANYON PARK RESORT &
SPA SPECIFIC PLAN ;r3 (CASE 5. 0576-SP-1A) FOR A
746 ACRE AREA LOCATED SOUTH OF MURRAY CANYON
DRIVE, NORTH OF ACANTO WAY AND EAST AND WEST
OF SOUTH PALM CANYON DRIVE, W-R-1-A, W-R-1-B, '
R-1-A, R-1--B, R-2, 01-20, W, U-R ZONES, P078
AND PD228, PORTIONS OF SECTIONS 34, 35 AND 36.
WHEREAS Canyon Development has submitted an application for an
amendment to the City Council approved Canyon Park Resort Hotel &
Spa Specific Plan #1 (July 1991.) ; and
WHEREAS the City of Palm Springs has initiated a General Plan
Amendment in favor of the Specific Plan Amendment and has initiated
and prepared the Specific Plan Amendment for all properties not
owned or leased by Canyon Development; and
WHEREAS the amendment to the Specific Plan (SP-1A.) entails the same
land uses as were approved in SP--1 including, but riot limited to,
a :resort hotel and spa, retail and restaurant complex, single-• and
multi-family residential dwelling units, a golf course and tennis
courts, roadways and flood control facilities; and
WHEREAS the proposed amendment relocates the approved land uses
within the Specific Plan area, more specifically the resort hotel
and related facilities are proposed to be located in the lower
portion of the alluvial fan west of South Palm Canyon Drive and
low-density residential units will then be located east of South
Palm Canyon Drive, and reinstates Bogert Trail as a collector
street and eliminates Acanto Way as a collector street; and '
WHEREAS a General Plan Amendment has been prepared to reflect the
locational and circulation changes proposed as part of the Canyon
Park Resort Hotel & Spa Specific Plan Amendment proposal, and such
changes will not cause any other substantive environmental change
to the General Plan; and
WHEREAS the City Council„ on March 3, 1993 , certified the
Environmental Impact Report (EIR) regarding the General Plan Update
which identified significant effects that may occur as a result of
development consistent with the General Plan Update and adopted
appropriate findings; and
WHEREAS in July of 1991 the City Council certified The Canyon
Redevelopment Plan and Canyon Park Resort and Spa Specific Plan
Final Environmental Impact Report, adopted a Statement of Fact and
Findings and a Statement of Overriding Considerations; and
WHEREAS an environmental assessment was prepared for -the proposed
Canyon Park Resort Hotel and Spa project, including the General
Plan Amendment, resulting in the preparation of a Negative
Declaration, and the approval of the subject project and its
mitigated Negative Declaration :is consistent with the existing and
proposed land uses fully discussed in the EIR fog:• the General Plan
Update, and as such will not create any impacts beyond those '
analyzed in the EIR for the General Plan Update; and
WHEREAS the City finds that since the time of the, certification of
the EIR for the General Plan Update there have been no changes in
the general plan program or the circumstances of such program
involving new significant environmental impacts which would require
important revisions in the ]EIR; and
WHEREAS no new information has become available since the
certification of the EIR which :indicates new environmental effects, I `
greater severity of previously identified effects, the feasibility \L\l of mitigation measures previously considered infeasible, or new
mitigation measures which would substantially lessen one or more
significant environmental effects; and
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WHEREAS the Planning Commission held a public hearing on December
22 , 1993, and voted in favor of the General Plan Amendment (5-0; 1
abstention; 1 absence) .
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that, based upon the foregoing, the
City Council hereby approves the General_ Plan Amendment to the Land
' Use & Circulation Map of the General Plan, as shown on Exhibit A
(as on file in the Office of the City Clerk) , and an amendment to
the text of the General Plan, as shown on Exhibit B (as on file in
the Office of the City Clerk) ;
ADOPTED this 19th day of January , 1994.
AYES: Members Hodges, Lyons, Reller-Spurgin, Schlendorf
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: Mayor Maryanov
ATTEST: CITY SP G , LIFORNIA
BY
,Caty Clerk / C' y Manage_
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