City Council

C Consideration and possible action to waive further reading and adopt\nOrdinance No. 1442 – An Ordinance approving 1) Zone Change Case\nNo. ZC 25-01 to: (A) establish zoning overlays (“Housing Opportunity\nOverlay Zone – HOOZ”) for certain properties to allow mixed use or\nresidential developments; and (B) expand and modify boundaries of the\nDowntown Bellflower Transit-Oriented Development Specific Plan\n(“TODSP”) area; and (2) approve Zoning Ordinance Text Amendment Case\nNo. ZOTA 25-01 to: (A) establish regulatory framework of future development\nand uses within the “HOOZ”; and (B) amend the TODSP document related to\nregulations and expansion of the boundaries to implement the Housing\nElement.__________\nCEQA: The City reviewed the environmental impacts of the proposed Resolution\nand Ordinance pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (Public\nResources Code §§ 21000, et seq. “CEQA”) and the regulations promulgated\nthereunder (14 Cal. Code of Regs. §§ 15000, et seq., the “CEQA Guidelines”). In\naccordance with CEQA and CEQA Guidelines § 15162, the City Council finds as\nfollows: A) Resolution No. 22-04 was adopted by the City Council on January 20,\n2022, approving Mitigated Negative Declaration No. MND 21-01; B) Changing the\nzoning designation for the properties identified in the Resolution and Ordinance is\nan activity contemplated by MND 21-01; C) This activity does not contemplate any\nchanges which will require major revisions to MND 21-01 nor are there any\nsubstantial changes with respect to the circumstances under which MND 21-01\nwas undertaken; and D) There is no new information of substantial importance,\nwhich was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of\nreasonable diligence at the time MND 21-01 was approved.\nRecommendation to City Council: 1) Waive further reading and adopt Ordinance\nNo. 1442; or 2) Alternatively, discuss and take other action related to this item.