2015-177 Cimarron Ridge GPA 2014-016 ORDINANCE NO. 2015-177
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MENIFEE, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING GENERAL PLAN
AMENDMENT NO. 2014-016, TO AMEND THE LAND USE
DESIGNATION OF A 240.3-ACRE AREA FROM 2.1-5
DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE (2.1-5R)TO SPECIFIC PLAN (SP)
AND A TECHNICAL CORRECTION TO THE GENERAL PLAN
CIRCULATION ELEMENT TO RECTIFY MAPPING ERRORS
WHICH RESULTED IN INACCURATE DEPICTIONS OF THE
ALIGNMENT OF GOETZ ROAD
WHEREAS, on February 6, 2014, the applicant, Cimarron Ridge, LLC, filed a
formal application with the City of Menifee for General Plan Amendment No. 2014-016
(the "Project") to change the General Plan land use designation of the property identified
as APNs 330-220-004, 330-220-005, 330-220-007, 330-220-008, 330-220-010, 330-220-
-011, 330-220-012, 330-220-013, 330-230-003, 330-230-010, 330-230-013, 330-230-015,
330-230-029, 330-230-032, 330-230-034, 330-230-035, 330-230-036, 330-230-037, 330-
230-038, 330-230-039, 330-230-040, 330-230-041, 335-070-036, 335-070-037, 335-070-
038, 335-070-039, 335-070-040, 335-070-041, 335-070-046, 335-070-047, 335-070-048,
335-430-017 from 2.1-5 Dwelling Units Per Acre (2.1-5R) to Specific Plan and a technical
correction to the General Plan Circulation Element to rectify mapping errors which resulted
in inaccurate depictions of the alignment of Goetz Road; and
WHEREAS, on August 12, 2015, the Planning Commission held a duly noticed
public hearing on the Project, considered all public testimony as well as all materials in the
staff report and accompanying documents for General Plan Amendment No. 2014-016,
which hearing was publicly noticed on July 31, 2015 by a publication in a newspaper of
general circulation (i.e., The Press Enterprise), an agenda posting, and notice to property
owners within 300 feet of the Project boundaries, and to persons requesting public notice;
and
WHEREAS, at the August 12, 2015 Planning Commission public hearing, based
upon the materials in the staff report and accompanying documents, the City of Menifee
Planning Commission recommended that the City Council approve General Plan
Amendment No. 2014-016; and,
WHEREAS, on October 21, 2015, the City Council of the City of Menifee held a
public hearing on the Project, considered all public testimony as well as all materials in the
staff report and accompanying documents, including the Environmental Impact Report, for
General Plan Amendment No. 2014-016, which hearing was publicly noticed by a
publication in the Press Enterprise, a newspaper of general circulation, an agenda posting,
and notice to property owners within 300 feet of the Project boundaries, and to persons
requesting public notice; and
WHEREAS, on October 21, 2015, the City Council introduced the ordinance for
first reading and scheduled the second reading and adoption of the ordinance for
November 4, 2015; and,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MENIFEE DOES
HEARBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1. The above recitals are true and correct and incorporated herein.
Section 2. The City Council, in light of the whole record before it including but
not limited to the staff report dated October 21, 2015, and the CEQA Guidelines,
Certified the Environmental Impact Report and Adopted a Statement of Overriding
Considerations for the Project pursuant to Resolution No. 15-465.
Section 3. In accordance with the provisions of the City of Menifee General
Plan and Zoning Ordinance, the City Council hereby makes the following findings for
General Plan Amendment No. 2014-016:
The proposed general plan amendment is in conformance with the adopted
General Plan for the City.
The General Plan land use designation for the subject parcel is 2.1-5 Dwelling
Units/Acre Residential (2.1-5R). This designation is intended for single-family
detached residences at a density between 2 to 5 dwelling units per acre.
Properties to the north are designated Public Utility Corridor (PUC) and
Economic Development Corridor (EDC). Properties to the east are
designated 2.1 to 5 Dwelling Units per Acre Residential (2.1-5R) and 5.1 to 8
Dwelling Units per Acre Residential (5.1-8R). Properties to the south are
designated as 2.1 to 5 Dwelling Units per Acre Residential (2.1-5R).
Properties to the west are within the City of Perris.
The project proposes to amend the land use designation on the project site
from 2.1-5R to Specific Plan (SP) to reflect the proposed Cimarron Ridge
Specific Plan (Specific Plan 2013-247) and its land use designations pursuant
to Resolution PC 15-223. The Specific Plan proposes a total of 756 single-
family dwelling units on 24.03 gross acres for an overall density of 3.1 dwelling
units per acre. This level of density is consistent with the current land use
designation of 2.1-5R.
The project also proposes a technical correction to rectify mapping errors
which resulted in inaccurate depictions of the alignment of Goetz Road.
Specifically, Exhibit C-3 Roadway Network of the General Plan recognizes
two alignments for Goetz Road at the intersection with Valley Boulevard: 1)
the existing, built alignment of Goetz Road that would merge with Valley
Boulevard, and, 2) the re-alignment of Goetz Road that would include a
controlled intersection with Valley Boulevard. The technical correction would
modify Exhibit C-3 to show only the controlled intersection. The traffic study
for the general plan analyzed the controlled intersection; however, this was
not reflected on the exhibit.
Pursuant to Ordinance 348 Section 2.4.17, the proposed General Plan
Amendment to change the land use designation of the project site from 2.1-5
Dwelling Units Per Acre (2.1-5R) to Specific Plan (SP) does not involve a
change in or conflict with the General Plan Vision or, any General planning
principle of the General Plan; would contribute to the purposes of the General
Plan; special circumstances or conditions have emerged that were
unanticipated in preparing the General Plan, in particular to allow
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development of lots with a minimum lot size below 7,200 square feet under
the City's current Zoning Code is best accomplished through the preparation
and adoption of a Specific Plan.
Pursuant to Ordinance 348 Section 2.4.F, the proposed General Plan
Amendment to correct the alignment of Goetz road within the Circulation
Element would not change any policy direction nor intent of the General Plan
and is an error that needs to be corrected.
In addition, the General Plan Amendment is consistent with the following
General Plan goals and policies in particular:
Goal LU-1 Land uses and building types that result in a community where
residents at all stages of life, employers, workers, and visitors
have a diversity of options of where they can live, work, shop,
and recreate within Menifee.
LU-1.1 Concentrate growth in strategic locations to help preserve
rural areas, create place and identity, provide infrastructure
efficiently, and foster the use of transit options.
LU-1.2 Provide a spectrum of housing types and price ranges that
match the jobs in the City and make it possible for people to
live and work in Menifee and maintain a high quality of life.
LU-1.5 Support development and land use patterns, where
appropriate, that reduce reliance on the automobile and
capitalize on multimodal transportation opportunities.
LU-1.6 Coordinate land use, infrastructure, and transportation
planning and analysis with regional, county, and other local
agencies to further regional and sub-regional goals for jobs-
housing balance.
LU-1.7 Ensure neighborhood amenities and public facilities (natural
open space areas, parks, libraries, schools, trails, etc.) are
distributed equitably throughout the City.
LU-1.8 Ensure new development is carefully designed to avoid or
incorporate natural features, including washes, creeks, and
hillsides.
LU-1.9 Allow for flexible development standards provided that the
potential benefits and merit of projects can be balanced with
potential impacts.
LU-1.10 Buffer sensitive land uses, such as residences, schools, care
facilities, and recreation areas from major air pollutant
emission sources, including freeways, manufacturing,
hazardous materials storage, and similar uses.
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HE-1.1: Specific Plans. Support residential growth and infill in specific
plan areas and along corridors where comprehensive
neighborhood planning is completed and adequate
infrastructure is planned.
HE-1.2: Housing Design. Require excellence in housing design with
materials and colors, building treatments, landscaping, open
space, parking, and environmentally sensitive design
practices.
HE-1.3: Housing Diversity. Provide development standards and
incentives to facilitate a range of housing, such as single
family, apartments, senior housing, and other housing types
in rural, suburban, and urban settings.
HE-2.4 Parks and Recreation. Enhance neighborhood livability and
sustainability by providing parks and open spaces, planting
trees, greening parkways, and maintaining a continuous
pattern of paths that encourage an active, healthy lifestyle.
HE-2.5 Public Facilities and Infrastructure. Provide quality community
facilities, infrastructure,traffic management, public safety, and
other services to promote and improve the livability, safety,
and vitality of residential neighborhoods.
Goal C-1: A roadway network that meets the circulation needs of all
residents, employees, and visitors to the City of Menifee.
C-1.1 Require roadways to:
• Comply with federal, state and local design and safety
standards.
• Meet the needs of multiple transportation modes and users.
• Be compatible with the streetscape and surrounding land
uses.
• Be maintained in accordance with best practices.
C-1.4 Promote development of local street patterns that unify
neighborhoods and work with neighboring jurisdictions to
provide compatible roadway linkages at the City limits.
Goal C-2: A bikeway and community pedestrian network that facilitates
and encourages non-motorized travel throughout the City of
Menifee.
C-2.1 Require on- and off-street pathways to:
• Comply with federal, state and local design and safety
standards.
• Meet the needs of multiple types of users (families,
commuters, recreational beginners, exercise experts) and
meet ADA standards and guidelines.
• Be compatible with the streetscape and surrounding land
uses.
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• Be maintained in accordance with best practices.
C-2.2 Provide off-street multipurpose trails and on-street bike lanes
as our primary paths of citywide travel, and explore the shared
use of low speed roadways for connectivity wherever it is safe
to do so.
C-2.3 Require walkways that promote safe and convenient travel
between residential areas, businesses, schools, parks,
recreation areas, transit facilities, and other key destination
points.
C-2.4 Explore opportunities to expand the pedestrian and bicycle
networks; this includes consideration of utility easements,
drainage corridors, road rights-of-way and other potential
options.
Goal OSC-1:A comprehensive system of high quality parks and recreation
programs that meets the diverse needs of the community.
OSC-1.1 Provide parks and recreational programs to meet the varied
needs of community residents, including children, youth,
adults, seniors, and persons with disabilities, and make these
facilities and services easily accessible and affordable to all
users.
OSC-1.2: Require a minimum of five acres of public open space to be
provided for every 1,000 City residents.
OSC-1.3: Locate and distribute parks and recreational facilities
throughout the community so that most residents are within
walking distance (one-half mile) of a public open space.
OSC-1.4: Enhance the natural environment and viewsheds through
park design and site selection while preserving sensitive
biological, cultural and historic resources.
OSC-2.1: Develop recreational trails for hiking, biking, and equestrian
use throughout the City, making them, to the extent feasible,
accessible to people of different neighborhoods, ages, and
abilities.
OSC-4.1: Apply energy efficiency and conservation practices in land
use, transportation demand management, and subdivision
and building design.
OSC-5.4: Establish clear and responsible policies and best practices to
identify, evaluate, and protect previously unknown
archaeological, historic, and cultural resources, following
applicable CEQA and NEPA procedures and in consultation
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with the appropriate Native American tribes who have
ancestral lands within the City.
OSC-5.6: Develop clear policies regarding the preservation and
avoidance of cultural resources located within the City, in
consultation with the appropriate Native American tribes who
have ancestral lands within the City.
OSC-7.2: Encourage water conservation as a means of preserving
water resources.
OSC-7.5: Utilize a wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal
system that adequately serves the existing and long-term
needs of the community.
Goal OSC-8: Protected biological resources, especially sensitive and
special status wildlife species and their natural habitats.
OSC-8.1: Work to implement the Western Riverside County Multiple
Species Habitat Conservation Plan in coordination with the
Regional Conservation Authority.
OSC-8.8: Implement and follow MSHCP goals and policies when
making discretionary actions pursuant to Section 13 of the
Implementing Agreement.
Goal OSC-9:Reduced impacts to air quality at the local level by minimizing
pollution and particulate matter.
OSC-9.1: Meet state and federal clean air standards by minimizing
particulate matter emissions from construction activities.
OSC-9.3: Comply with regional, state, and federal standards and
programs for control of all airborne pollutants and noxious
odors, regardless of source.
OSC-9.5: Comply with the mandatory requirements of Title 24 Part 11
of the California Building Standards Code (CALGreen) and
Title 24 Part 6 Building and Energy Efficiency Standards.
Goal OSC-10: An environmentally aware community that is responsive to
changing climate conditions and actively seeks to reduce local
greenhouse gas emissions.
OSC-10.4: Consider impacts to climate change as a factor in evaluation
of policies, strategies, and projects.
Goal CD-1: A unified and attractive community identity that complements
the character of the City's distinctive communities.
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CD-1.3 Strengthen the identity of individual
neighborhoods/communities with entry monuments, flags,
street signs, and/or special tree streets, landscaping, and
lighting.
Goal CD-3: Projects, developments, and public spaces that visually
enhance the character of the community and are
appropriately buffered from dissimilar land uses so that
differences in type and intensity do not conflict.
CD-3.3 Minimize visual impacts of public and private facilities and
support structures through sensitive site design and
construction. This includes, but is not limited to: appropriate
placement of facilities; undergrounding, where possible; and
aesthetic design (e.g., cell tower stealthing).
CD-3.8 Design retention/detention basins to be visually attractive and
well integrated with any associated project and with adjacent
land uses.
CD-3.9 Utilize Crime Prevention through Environmental Design
(CPTED) techniques and defensible space design concepts
to enhance community safety.
CD-3.10 Employ design strategies and building materials that evoke a
sense of quality and permanence.
CD-3.12 Utilize differing but complementary forms of architectural
styles and designs that incorporate representative
characteristics of a given area.
CD-3.13 Utilize architectural design features (e.g., windows, columns,
offset roof planes, etc.) to vertically and horizontally articulate
elevations in the front and rear of residential buildings.
CD-3.14 Provide variations in color, texture, materials, articulation, and
architectural treatments. Avoid long expanses of blank,
monotonous walls or fences.
Goal CD-6: Attractive landscaping, lighting, and signage that conveys a
positive image of the community.
CD-6.1 Recognize the importance of street trees in the aesthetic
appeal of residential neighborhoods and require the planting
of street trees throughout the City.
Goal S-1: A community that is minimally impacted by seismic shaking
and earthquake-induced or other geologic hazards.
S-1.1 Require all new habitable buildings and structures to be
designed and built to be seismically resistant in accordance
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with the most recent California Building Code adopted by the
City.
Goal S-2: A community that has used engineering solutions to reduce or
eliminate the potential for injury, loss of life, property damage,
and economic and social disruption caused by geologic
hazards such as slope instability, compressible, collapsible,
expansive or corrosive soils; and subsidence due to
groundwater withdrawal.
S-2.1 Require all new developments to mitigate the geologic
hazards that have the potential to impact habitable structures
and other improvements.
S-2.3 Minimize grading and modifications to the natural topography
to prevent the potential for man-induced slope failures.
Goal N-1: Noise-sensitive land uses are protected from excessive noise
and vibration exposure.
N-1.1 Assess the compatibility of proposed land uses with the noise
environment when preparing, revising, or reviewing
development project applications.
N-1.2 Require new projects to comply with the noise standards of
local, regional, and state building code regulations, including
but not limited to the City's Municipal Code, Title 24 of the
California Code of Regulations, the California Green Building
Code, and subdivision and development codes.
N-1.3 Require noise abatement measures to enforce compliance
with any applicable regulatory mechanisms, including building
codes and subdivision and zoning regulations, and ensure
that the recommended mitigation measures are implemented.
N-1.8 Locate new development in areas where noise levels are
appropriate for the proposed uses. Consider federal, state,
and City noise standards and guidelines as a part of new
development review.
N-1.14 Minimize vibration impacts on people and businesses near
light and heavy rail lines or other sources of ground-borne
vibration through the use of setbacks and/or structural design
features that reduce vibration to levels at or below the
guidelines of the Federal Transit Administration. Require new
development within 100 feet of rail lines to demonstrate, prior
to project approval, that vibration experienced by residents
and vibration-sensitive uses would not exceed these
guidelines.
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N-1.15 Employ noise mitigation practices and materials, as
necessary, when designing future streets and highways, and
when improvements occur along existing road segments.
Mitigation measures should emphasize the establishment of
natural buffers or setbacks between the arterial roadways and
adjoining noise-sensitive areas.
Section 4. The City Council hereby approves General Plan Amendment No.
2014-016 amending the official General Plan Land Use map of the City of Menifee by
changing the land use designation as shown in attached Exhibit "1" to this Ordinance.
Section 5. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or
portion of this Ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the
decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would
have adopted this Ordinance, and each section, subsection subdivision, sentence, clause,
phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections,
subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions thereof be declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 6. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and operation
thirty (30) days after its adoption.
Section 7. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this
Ordinance, and shall cause the same to be published within fifteen (15) days after passage
in accordance with law, and shall cause this Ordinance and its certification, together with
proof of publication, to be entered in the Book of Ordinances of the City of Menifee.
PASSED APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 4' day of November, 2015, by the following
vote:
AYES: August, Denver, Liesemeyer, Mann
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN:None
Scott A. Mann, Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Jeffry lching, City Att rn y
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CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, KATHY BENNETT, City Clerk of the City of Menifee, do hereby attest to and certify the
attached Ordinance No. 2015-177 to be the original ordinance adopted by the City Council
of the City of Menifee on November 4, 2015 and that said ordinance was published in
accordance with the law.
Date:
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Kathy Bennett, City Clerk
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