City Council

(18) 23-0361 CD 10 CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) GUIDELINES SECTION 15096, PREVIOUSLY CERTIFIED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR), MITIGATION MEASURES, MITIGATION MONITORING PROGRAM, STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS, and RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL FINDINGS, CASE NO. ENV­-2021-9507­-EIR, STATE CLEARINGHOUSE (SCH) NO. 2021110079; PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT and ORDINANCES FIRST CONSIDERATION relative to amending the West Adams – Baldwin Hills – Leimert Community Plan Implementation Overlay (CPIO) District to modify development regulations in Parcel Group A of the Venice/National Transit Oriented Development Subarea; and the plan area boundaries of the Exposition Corridor Transit Neighborhood Plan (TNP); for the project located at 8876, 8884, 8886, 8888 West Venice Boulevard and 8829 West National Boulevard. Recommendations for Council action, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE MAYOR: FIND and DETERMINE, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15096(e) and (f), after consideration of the whole of the administrative record, that the project was adequately assessed in the previously certified EIR, Case No. ENV-2021-9507-EIR (SCH No. 2021110079), for the project referenced in the Los Angeles City Planning Commission report dated March 24, 2023, attached to the Council file, certified by the City of Culver City on December 5, 2022; ADOPT, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15096(g), the Mitigation Measures and Mitigation Monitoring Program, dated October 2022; ADOPT, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15091, the related and prepared environmental findings required by the CEQA Guidelines; and, ADOPT, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Sections 15096(h) and 15093, the Statement of Overriding Considerations required by the CEQA Guidelines. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying TNP ORDINANCE, dated August 14, 2023, amending the Exposition Corridor Transit Neighborhood Plan (Ordinance No. 186,402) to update the plan area boundary map to remove the project site in order to allow for the development of a creative office complex on 4.46 acres located within the City of Los Angeles and the City of Culver City. PRESENT and ADOPT the accompanying revised CPIO ORDINANCE, dated August 23, 2023, amending the West Adams­ – Baldwin Hills – ­​Leimert CPIO District (Ordinance No. 184794 as subsequently amended by Ordinance No. 186401) to modify development regulations in Parcel Group A of the Venice/National Transit Oriented Development Subarea. RECEIVE and FILE the City Attorney Report No. 23-0297 and NOT PRESENT and ORDER FILED the accompanying draft Ordinance, dated August 14, 2023, relative to the West Adams­ – Baldwin Hills­​ – Leimert CPIO District, inasmuch as it has been revised by the August 23, 2023 revised City Attorney Report No. 23-0310 and revised draft Ordinance. Applicant: Melissa Schild, Culver Crossings Properties LLC  Representative: Matt Dzurec, Armbruster Goldsmith & Delvac LLP  Case No. CPC­-2021-­9506-­CPIO-­SP-­SPR-­WDI Environmental No. ENV-­2021-­9507-­EIR; SCH No. 2021110079