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. RESOLUTION NUMBER 03-1
A RESOLUTION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF
SEAL BEACH RECOMMENDING TO THE
PLANNING COMMISSION AND CITY
COUNCIL THE ADEQUACY OF THE
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT,
INCLUDING MITIGATION MEASURES,
RELATING TO CULTURAL RESOURCE
ISSUES (SECTION 5.7) FOR THE BOEING
SPECIFIC PLAN PROJECT FINAL EIR
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF
SEAL BEACH DOES HEREBY FIND AND RESOLVE:
Section 1. Boeing Realty Corporation has submitted a development
application for the Boeing Space and Communications headquarters property with the
. development proposals set forth below:
a. The proposed mixed-use project consists of commercial/retail, hotel,
restaurant and business park uses as submitted by the applicant, Boeing Realty Corporation.
The site is approximately 107 acres in size. The Specific Plan proposes to maintain and/or
redevelop the existing floor area of 1,150,000 square feet, and to add an additional
1,060,500 square feet with the following allocation of uses:
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41 Existing Boeing Space and 1,150,000
Communications facilities. Allows for square feet
up to 345,000 square feet of additional
building area.
All or portions of the existing buildings
to remain and/or reused. New business
park uses would require relocation
and/or demolition of existing buildings
and facilities.
PROPOSED PROJECT LAND USES
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16
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New business park uses. Portions of the
drainage ditches to be used for wetland
restoration and water quality treatment
purposes.
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Business park, 120-room hotel, and
commercial (retail, restaurant and
similar commercial uses).
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TOTAL
107
acres
345,000
square feet
628,000
square feet
55,000 (bus.park)
square feet
32,500 (hotel)
square feet
2,210,500
square feet
b. The project includes requests for a General Plan Amendment, Zone
Change and Vesting Tentative Tract Map to change the Boeing property designation from
Light Industrial in the General Plan and zoned Light Manufacturing (M-I), to a General
Plan designation of Business Park and zoning designation of Specific Plan Regulation
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Archaeological AdvisOIY Committee Resolution 03-1
Recommendation to City COltncil re:
Adequacy of Boeing Specific Plan Project Final EIR
April 23, 2003
(SPR). In addition, the project will require an amendment to the Circulation Element of the
General Plan to add the proposed Apollo Drive alignment.
Section 2. City Council Resolution 4186, adopted October 26, 1992,
creates an "Archaeological Advisory Committee" and charges that committee with the duty
to "Review, provide comments on, and propose recommended conditions of approval
regarding development applications which require a report by a city-appointed archaeologist
regarding a specific development proposals under review by the Planning Commission and
City Council".
Section 3. Pursuant to 14 Calif. Code of Regs. ~ 15025(a) and ~ 11.C
and III of the City's Local CEQA Guidelines, staff prepared an Initial Study and a Draft
Enviromnental Impact Report (DElR) which was circulated for public review and comment
from December 27, 2002 to February 10, 2003, in compliance with the provisions of the
California Environmental Quality Act and the City's Local CEQA Guidelines. The Final
ElR has now been completed and is before the Archaeological Advisory Committee for a
recommendation as to the adequacy of the document and the proposed mitigation measures
relating to "Cultural Resources".
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Section 4. The required DEIR and FEIR were prepared by RBF
Consulting, and have been submitted to the City.
Section 5. The Archaeological Advisory Committee met on April 23,
2003, considered the staff report, the information in the Final ElR, the "Responses to
Comments", and the proposed Mitigation Measures prepared by RBF Consulting.
Section 6. Based upon its independent review of the above mentioned
reports, the Archaeological Advisory Committee hereby recommends that the Planning
Commission and City Council consider Section 5.7 (Cultural Resources) adequate in tenns
of compliance with CEQA and recommends the Cultural Resource Mitigation Measures,
incorporating the modification set forth in Section 7 below, are sufficient to reduce levels of
identified environmental impacts to a less than significant level.
Section 7. The Archaeological Advisory Committee recommends that
Mitigation Measure 5.7-3b, Notification Procedures for New Discoveries, first bullet point,
last sentence, be revised to read, "If it is determined by a qualified individual that the find
does not constitute a burial, the mechanical excavation shall continue." (Additional
language indicated by underlined text)
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the Archaeological Advisory
Committee of the City of Seal Beach at a meeting thereof held on the 23rd day
of April , 2003 by the following vote:
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AYES: Committee Members
Coles, Dixon, Hay, and Vesely
NOES: Committee Members
Fitzpatrick
ABSENT: Committee Members
ABSTAIN: Committee Members
C airperson,
chaeological A ISOry Committee
e Whi enberg, Secretary
Archaeological Advisory Commit
Boeing FEIR Adequacy Archaeo Comm Reso
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