City Planning Commission

3. CONSENT CALENDAR (3a)\nConsent Calendar items are considered to be not controversial and will be treated as one agenda item.\nThe Consent Calendar will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items\nunless the item is removed from the Consent Calendar, in which event the item will be considered as time\nallows on the regular agenda.\n3a. CPC-2022-7639-DB-CU-HCA Council District: 5 – Yaroslavsky\nCEQA: ENV-2022-7640-EAF; Last Day to Act: 08-24-23\nENV-2013-622-EIR; SCH. No. 2013031038\nPlan Area: Palms – Mar Vista – Del Rey\nPUBLIC HEARING – Completed June 15, 2023\nPROJECT SITE: 9431, 9439, 9443 West Venice Boulevard; 3780 South Cardiff Avenue\nPROPOSED PROJECT:\nConstruction of a seven-story, 79-foot tall mixed-use residential apartment building with 47 dwelling units\n(including five Very Low Income units). The Project will be approximately 51,052 square feet in floor area\nincluding 2,627 square feet of restaurant space with a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 4.4:1. The Project will\nprovide 38 parking spaces in a partial at-grade and subterranean parking level. The site is currently\nimproved with a one-story commercial building which will be demolished. No protected trees will be\nremoved from the subject site; two non-protected street trees will remain along the public right-of-way and\ntwo non-protected street trees will be removed. The Project will also require a haul route for the export of\napproximately 6,081 cubic yards of soil.\nREQUESTED ACTIONS:\n1. Pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Sections 15168 and 15162, the\nadequacy of the Project being within the scope of the Exposition Corridor Transit Neighborhood Plan\n(TNP) Program EIR No. ENV-2013-622-EIR, SCH. No 2013031038 (Program EIR);\n2. Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 21155.4, a Statutory Exemption from CEQA and the events\nspecified in Section 21166 have not occurred;\n3. Pursuant to Section 12.22 A.25(g)(3) of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC), a Density\nBonus/Affordable Housing Incentive Program Compliance Review to permit the construction of a\nHousing Development Project totaling 47 units, reserving five units for Very Low Income Household\noccupancy for a period of 55 years, with the following requested Off-Menu Incentives and pursuant to\nLAMC Section 12.22 A.25(g)(3), the following Waivers of Development Standards:\na. An Off-Menu Incentive for a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 4.4:1 in lieu of 2:1 otherwise permitted by\nthe Expo Corridor TNP Section 2.3.1 and Table F;\nb. An Off-Menu Incentive for Non-Residential Use of five percent in lieu of the 20 percent otherwise\nrequired by the Expo Corridor TNP Section 2.2.3 and Table E; and\nc. An Off-Menu Incentive for ground floor screening of zero feet in lieu of 25 feet for a portion of the\nfrontage for parking and loading areas along Cardiff Avenue otherwise required by the Expo\nCorridor TNP Section 4.2.5.C.1.;\nd. A Waiver of Development Standard for a height increase to 79 feet in lieu of the 68 feet otherwise\nallowed by the Expo Corridor TNP Section 2.4.1 and Table G;\ne. A Waiver of Development Standard for a zero-foot westerly side yard setback in lieu of the five\nfeet otherwise required by the Expo Corridor TNP Section 4.2.1.A.2;\nf. A Waiver of Development Standard for a zero-foot easterly side yard setback in lieu of the five\nfeet otherwise required by the Expo Corridor TNP Section 4.2.1.A.2;\ng. A Waiver of Development Standard for the elimination of loading space requirements of LAMC\nSection 12.21 C.6;\nh. A Waiver of Development Standard for a reduction in required open space to 4,468 square feet\nof open space in lieu of 5,550 square feet otherwise required by LAMC Section 12.21 G; and\ni. A Waiver of Development Standard for Non-Residential open space of zero square feet in lieu of\n106 square feet of Non-Residential open space otherwise required by the Expo Corridor TNP\nSection 2.5.1.B.; and