9C
Date: August 19, 2025
To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Michelle Ramirez, Community Development Director
By: Robert Garcia, Planning Manager | [email protected] Subject: Supplemental Material #1 for Agenda Item 9C
DISCUSSION
Provided below is a revision to the staff report discussion regarding the General Plan Land Use Designation for the subject property. The revision makes reference to the objectives and policies of the Community Resources Element, as opposed to the objectives and policies of the Land Use Element. Please also find attached the revised Resolution (Attachment 1) and the revised Excerpt (Attachment 2), which reflect the revised discussion and serve to replace Attachment 1 and Attachment 4 to the staff report. In addition, the Proof of Publication is attached to the supplemental report.
General Plan Land Use Designation
The project site has a General Plan land use designation of PUB, which provides for open space, land owned by public agencies and jurisdictions, and land owned by private entities for uses which serve the community, such as utilities. The PUB land use designation is implemented by the P- 1 Zone and the Public Use District (P-U) Zone. Objectives and policies to preserve, protect, and maintain open space are established in the Community Resources Element of the General Plan.
ATTACHMENTS
1. Resolution (Revised)
2. Excerpt from the Community Resources Element
3. Proof of Publication
1 RESOLUTION NO. 25-
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA, AS PROVIDED FOR IN DIVISION 9,
CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE 28 AND DIVISION 9, CHAPTER 2,
ARTICLE 29 OF THE TORRANCE MUNICIPAL CODE, FOR THE
DENIAL OF MODIFICATION (MOD23-00010) OF A PREVIOUSLY
APPROVED DIVISION OF LOT (DIV14-00006), ON PROPERTY
LOCATED WITHIN THE HILLSIDE OVERLAY IN THE OPEN
AREA – PLANTING – PARKING DISTRICT (P-1) ZONE AT 2550
PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY.
MOD23-00010: JWG CONSULTING (SAUNDERS PROPERTY COMPANY) WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Torrance conducted a duly noticed public hearing on May 21, 2025 to consider an application filed by JWG Consulting (Saunders Property Company) for the consideration of MOD23-00010 for previously approved DIV14-00006 to amend an open space easement (Note A) for purposes related to ground-mounted solar panels and associated equipment and perimeter fencing, on property located within the Hillside Overlay in the P-1 Zone at 2550 Pacific Coast Highway; and
WHEREAS, at the Planning Commission meeting of May 21, 2025, a motion for denial of MOD23-00010 passed by a vote of 5 ayes and 2 noes; and
WHEREAS, an appeal to the City Council was filed on June 4, 2025; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Torrance conducted a duly noticed public hearing on August 19, 2025 to consider an application filed by JWG Consulting (Saunders Property Company) for the consideration of MOD23-00010 for previously approved DIV14-00006 to amend an open space easement (Note A) for purposes related to ground-mounted solar panels and associated equipment and perimeter fencing, on property located within the Hillside Overlay in the P-1 Zone at 2550 Pacific Coast Highway; and
WHEREAS, due and legal publication of notice was given to owners of property in the vicinity thereof and due and legal hearings have been held, all in accordance with the provisions of Division 9, Chapter 2, Article 28 and Division 9, Chapter 2, Article 29 of the Torrance Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Torrance does hereby find and determine as follows:
a) That the project site is located on undeveloped land atop a slope and north of Alta Loma Park (public park) at the southern portion of Skyline Mobile Home Park at 2550 Pacific Coast Highway;
b) That the project site is described as “BEING A SUBDIVISION OF PORTION OF LOTS 2 AND 4 OF TRACT NO. 9765, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 170, PAGES 10 THROUGH 12, INCLUSIVE OF MAPS AND PORTION OF LOTS 140, 141, 142, 153, AND 154 OF TRACT NO. 15, AS PER RECORDED IN BOOK 12, PAGE 189 OF MAPS” in the Office of the Los Angeles County Recorder, State of California;
c) That the project, together with provisions for its design and improvement, is deemed not consistent with the General Plan land use designation of Public/Quasi-Public/Open Space (PUB), which provides for open space, land owned by public agencies and jurisdictions, and land owned by private entities for uses which serve the community, such as utilities. In 2 ATTACHMENT 1
addition, the project is deemed not consistent with the objectives and policies of the Community Resources Element to preserve, protect, and maintain open space as a desirable land use, recognizing that such uses contribute to the high quality of life in Torrance; d) That the site is not suitable for the project and may interfere with the orderly development of the City as provided for in the Official Land Use Plan because the project is deemed not consistent with the PUB land use designation and the objectives and policies of the Community Resources Element to preserve, protect, and maintain open space. In addition, although the open space easement was recorded without specified terms, such as timespan and classification of open space, based on the project description for the Chandler/Rolling Hills Country Club Project such easement is intended to remain in perpetuity to preserve the historical, natural, and scenic character of the undeveloped land in accordance with the P-1 Zone and the PUB land use designation; and
e) That the denial of the project is deemed Statutorily Exempt per the Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); Article 18, Section 15270 (Projects Which Are Disapproved).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that MOD23-00010 filed by JWG Consulting (Saunders Property Company) for the consideration of Modification of a previously approved Division of Lot (DIV14-00006) to amend an open space easement (Note A) for purposes related to ground- mounted solar panels and associated equipment and perimeter fencing, on property located within the Hillside Overlay in the P-1 Zone at 2550 Pacific Coast Highway, on file in the Community Development Department of the City of Torrance, is hereby DENIED.
INTRODUCED and ADOPTED at the regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Torrance held on the 19th day of August 2025.
_______________________________
Mayor George K. Chen
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Patrick Q. Sullivan, City Attorney ATTEST:
________________________________ _______________________________ Tatia Y. Strader, Assistant City Attorney Rebecca Poirier, MMC, City Clerk
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ATTACHMENT 2
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Daily Breeze
2615 Pacific Coast Highway #329
Hermosa Beach, California 90254
(310) 543-6635
0011749615
City of Torrance
3031 Torrance Blvd
Torrance, California 90503
PROOF OF PUBLICATION
(2015.5 C.C.P.)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
County of Los Angeles
I am a citizen of the United States and
a resident of the County aforesaid; I
am over the age of eighteen years, and
not party to or interested in the above-
entitled matter. I am the principal clerk
of the printer of Daily Breeze, a
newspaper of general circulation,
printed and published in the City of
Torrance*, County of Los Angeles, and
which newspaper has been adjudged a
newspaper of general circulation by the
Superior Court of County of Los
Angeles, State of California, under the
date of June 15, 1945, Decree No.
Pomo C-606. The notice, of which the
annexed is a printed copy (set in type
not smaller than nonpareil), has been
published in each regular and entire
issue of said newspaper and not in any
supplement thereof on the following
dates, to wit:
08/08/2025
I certify (or declare) under the penalty
of perjury that the foregoing is true and
correct.
Dated at Hermosa Beach, California
On this 8th day of August, 2025.
______________________________
Signature
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Segundo, Gardena, Harbor City, Hawthorne,
Hermosa Beach, Inglewood, Lawndale,
Lomita, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Manhattan
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Rancho Palos Verdes, Rancho Palos Verdes
Estates, Redondo Beach, San Pedro, Santa
Monica, Torrance and Wilmington
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