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(15)\n22-0599\nCD 2\nCONTINUED FROM 4/18/23\nCategorical Exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to CEQA Guidelines, Section 15303, and related CEQA findings; report from the South Valley Area Planning Commission (SVAPC), and an Appeal filed by Saied Pouldar (Representative: Eduardo Olivo) from the determination of the SVAPC in approving a: 1) Specific Plan Exception to the Valley Village Specific Plan (Ordinance No. 168,613) to allow the following: a) an accessory car wash use in lieu of the C4 use limitations of Section 5.B. of the Valley Village Specific Plan, and b) a front yard of three percent of the total lot area in lieu of the five percent required by 6.E.1. of the Valley Village Specific Plan, pursuant to Section 11.5.7.F of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC); 2) Project Permit Compliance review with the Valley Village Specific Plan to allow the construction, use, and maintenance of a 736 square foot, self-operated car wash tunnel, pursuant to LAMC Section 11.5.7.C, 3) Conditional Use to allow a Commercial Corner Development with the following deviations from the standards of LAMC Section 12.22.A.23: a) less than 50 percent ground floor transparent windows, b) an existing free-standing pole sign, c) hours of operation for the existing convenience store from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; pursuant to LAMC Section 12.24.W.27; and 4) Zone Variance from “Q” Conditions of Ordinance No.165,108 which limit uses of the subject property to those permitted in the C1.5 Zone pursuant to LAMC Section 12.27; for the construction, use, and maintenance of a 736 square foot, self-operated car wash tunnel, to be operated from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily, as an accessory use to an existing gas station with convenience store, on an approximately 19,164 square foot commercial corner site, a total of five parking spaces will be provided, the car wash tunnel is proposed at the southwest corner of the site, adjacent to a commercial use, the project includes new landscaping around the site, raising existing concrete masonry unit walls of six feet in height (west property line) and four feet in height (north property line) by two feet each, the addition of eight new on-site trees and three new street trees, four additional parking spaces, new lighting, two new signs, a new trash enclosure area, new air/water location, the addition of two coin operation vacuum hoses with sound dampeners, and the re-facing of an existing free-standing pole sign, the project includes the demolition of a small storage building (160 square feet), the removal of nine palm trees (three mature, six small) and grading of less than 500 cubic yards; for the properties located at 4801-4815 North Laurel Canyon Boulevard; 12107-12111 West Riverside Drive, subject to the Conditions of Approval.\nApplicant: Nader Hattar, N&D Corporation\nRepresentative: Ken Kang, MK Design\nCase No. APCSV-2019-1481-SPE-SPP-CU-ZV-1A\nEnvironmental No. ENV-2019-1482-CE