RANCHO PALOS VERDES PLANNING COMMISSION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2002
FRED HESSE COMMUNITY PARK, 29301 HAWTHORNE BOULEVARD

REGULAR MEETING
7:00 P.M.

NEXT P.C. RESOLUTION NO. 2002-29

CALL TO ORDER: 7:00PM

FLAG SALUTE: LED BY DEPUTY DIRECTOR PFOST

ROLL CALL: COMMISSIONER LYON WAS ABSENT (EXCUSED) AND VICE CHAIR LONG ARRIVED AT 7:15PM

APPROVAL OF AGENDA: APPROVED AS AMENDED TO HEAR ITEMS 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, AND 7.

COMMUNICATIONS:

Staff: DEPUTY DIRECTOR PFOST REPORTED ON THE FOLLOWING: OCEAN TRAILS PROJECT; THE STANDARD PACIFIC PROPOSAL FOR THE CRESTRIDGE PROJECT; INFORMED THE COMMISSION ON THE LONG POINT PROJECT; AND UPDATED THE COMMISSION ON THE CURRENT GOLDEN COVE MODIFICATIONS.

Commission: COMMISSIONER TOMBLIN REPORTED THAT HE INFORMED MS. MARILYN FUENTES THAT SHE NEEDED TO CONTACT STAFF FOR FUTURE PROJECTS.

COMMISSIONER MUELLER NOTED HIS CONCERN WITH THE ANTENNA ISSUE THAT WAS BROUGHT FORTH AT A SCHOOL BOARD MEETING HE ATTENDED.

COMMENTS FROM THE AUDIENCE (regarding non-agenda items):

NONE.

CONTINUED BUSINESS:

NONE

PUBLIC HEARINGS:

3. HEIGHT VARIATION (CASE NO. ZON2002-00193): 2156 Mendon Drive / Sevilla (RL)

Request: A request for a 635 square-foot second story addition to an existing one-story
single-family residence, at a proposed maximum height of 22'-6" as measured from the
highest existing grade covered by structure to the highest ridgeline of the structure and
23'-0" as measured from the lowest foundation covered by the structure to ridge.

ACTION: CONTINUED THE PUBLIC HEARING TO THE OCTOBER 22, 2002 PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, (6-0).

4. HEIGHT VARIATION (CASE NO. ZON2002-00210): 31304 Floweridge / Muller (RL)

Request: A request for a 99 square-foot second story addition to an existing two-story residence, at a proposed maximum height of 18-feet as measured from the highest point covered by the structure to the top of the ridge and 23-feet as measured from the lowest adjacent grade covered by the structure to ridge. The addition is proposed at the front of the residence.

ACTION: ADOPTED P.C. RESOLUTION NO. 2002-28 THEREBY APPROVING HEIGHT VARIATION PERMIT CASE NO. ZON2002-00210, AS AMENDED. (4-2) WITH COMMISSIONER MUELLER AND CHAIRMAN CARTWRIGHT DISSENTING.

5. CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NO. 185 REVISION "C"(CASE NO. ZON2002-00346): 5755 Palos Verdes Drive South / Wayfarers (DB)

Request: A request to modify the permitted hours of operation for the Wayfarers Chapel and for the adjoining Visitors Center; and to conduct midnight services in the Chapel on December 24th; and to allow seminars, workshops, and other similar small meetings in the Visitors Center.

ACTION: THE PLANNING COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY CONTINUED THE PUBLIC
HEARING TO THE OCTOBER 8, 2002 PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, (6-0).

NEW BUSINESS:

6. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS ON MINUTES: (GP)

Request: At the September 10, 2002 Planning Commission Meeting the Planning Commission requested that an item be placed on the September 24, 2002 Agenda regarding clarification of the procedure for Commissioners to comment on meeting Minutes during an absence.

ACTION: THE PLANNING COMMISSION DISCUSSED THE PROCEDURE FOR
COMMENTING ON MINUTES WHEN COMMISSIONERS ARE ABSENT.

CONSENT CALENDAR:

1. MINUTES OF AUGUST 27, 2002

APPROVED AS AMENDED, (3-0-1) WITH COMMISSIONER LONG ABSTAINING SINCE HE WAS ABSENT FROM THAT MEETING.

2. MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2002

APPROVED AS PRESENTED, (3-0-2) WITH COMMISSIONER MUELLER AND VICE CHAIR LONG ABSTAINING SINCE THEY WERE ABSENT FROM THAT MEETING.

ITEMS TO BE PLACED ON FUTURE AGENDAS:

Commission: COMMISSIONER MUELLER REQUESTED THAT THE PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA FOR THE GRAPHIC PRESENTATION OF ANTENNA PROJECTS BE PLACED ON A FUTURE AGENDA.

7. PRE-AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF OCTOBER 8, 2002.

ADJOURNMENT: 11:22 P.M.

The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday,
October 8, 2002, 7:00 P.M. at Hesse Park.