Venice Local Coastal Program - Los Angeles Department of City

139 Pages·2001·4.75 MB·English

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Local Coastal Program
Land Use Plan
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VENICE COASTAL ZONE MAPS
LAND USE PLAN
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Land Use Plan Policies
I. Locating and Planning New Development/
Coastal Visual Resources and Special Communities
II. Shoreline Access
III. Recreation and Visitor-Serving Facilities
IV. Water and Marine Resources and Environmentally
Sensitive Habitat Areas
V. Public Works
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VENICE
ACTIVITY LOG
ADOPTION DATE PLAN CPC FILE NO. COUNCIL FILE NO.
Oct. 29, 1999 Venice Local Coastal Program / Land Use Plan 1998-0119 LCP 1998-0518
ADOPTION DATE AMENDMENT CPC FILE NO. COUNCIL FILE
Nov. 14, 2000 Coastal Commission approves Plan w/ Modifications 1998-0119 LCP 1998-0518
Mar. 28, 2001 Council adopts Coastal Commission’s Modifications 1998-0119 LCP 1998-0518
June 14, 2001 Coastal Commission certifies LCP/LUP 1998-0119 LCP 1998-0518
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Local Coastal Program
LAND USE PLAN
Chapter I
INTRODUCTION
THE COASTAL ACT
This plan has been prepared to comply with the California Coastal Act of
1976. The Coastal Act directs each local government lying wholly or partly
within the Coastal Zone to prepare a Local Coastal Program (LCP) for those
areas located in the State's designated Coastal Zone. The Venice Coastal
Zone is the area generally bounded by Marine Street on the north, the City-
County boundary, Washington Boulevard and Via Marina on the south,
Lincoln Boulevard and Via Dolce on the east, and the Pacific Ocean on the
west (see Exhibit 1, Vicinity Map and Exhibit 2, Venice Coastal Zone Map).
ORGANIZATION OF THE VENICE LOCAL COASTAL PROGRAM
The Local Coastal Program (LCP) consists of a local government's land use
plans, zoning ordinances, zoning district maps, and other implementing
actions which implement the provisions and policies of the California Coastal
Act at the local level. The LCP contains a Land Use Plan (LUP) and a Local
Implementation Plan (LIP).
The LUP consists of LCP Chapters 1 and 2, the maps entitled "Venice
Coastal Land Use Plan Maps", and Exhibits 1 through 23 with the emphasis
placed upon establishing plan goals and defining policy. It indicates the
"kinds, location, and intensity of land uses, the applicable resource
protection and development policies and, where necessary, a listing of
implementing actions."
The LIP will consist of LCP Chapter 3 and will contain the regulatory
controls and incentives for the systematic implementation of the LUP. The
LIP will be comprised of a specific plan and related implementing ordinances
and zoning map. The LIP will implement the certified LUP with specific
zoning designations and development standards for all uses within the
Venice Coastal Zone.
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SUMMARY OF COASTAL ISSUES
Chapter 3 of the California Coastal Act outlines the following 14 policy
groups which must be addressed, if applicable, in the LCP.
1. Shoreline Access
2. Recreation and Visitor-Serving Facilities
3. Housing
4. Water and Marine Resources
5. Diking, Dredging, Filling and Shoreline Structures
6. Commercial Fishing and Recreational Boating
7. Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Areas
8. Agriculture
9. Hazards
10. Forestry and Soils Resources
11. Locating and Planning New Development
12. Coastal Visual Resources and Special Communities
13. Public Works
14. Industrial and Energy Development
The City and California Coastal Commission seek the widest possible public
input to identify local coastal issues. To this end, the Department of City
Planning has had an ongoing program of citizen involvement. Starting in
1978 seven public meetings were held in both coastal and inland
communities. The 14 policy groups were distributed at the meetings to
inform the public of the general scope of the coastal issues. In addition,
federal, state and local agencies were contacted for their input. City staff
and Coastal Commission staff held several subsequent meetings to
determine which of the 14 California Coastal Act policies applied in Venice,
to identify the extent to which existing plans met Coastal Act requirements,
and to delineate any potential conflicts between existing plans, development
proposals and the policies of the Coastal Act. The resulting local issues
were translated into a Work Program, which was approved in 1979 by the
City and the California Coastal Commission. The Work Program issues are
outlined in Exhibit 3. Coastal policy groups which were considered
inapplicable to the Venice Coastal Zone are Commercial Fishing,
Agriculture, Forestry and Soils, and Energy Development.
Since 1979, the Coastal Act has been amended to remove the policies that
related to the protection of affordable housing in the coastal zone. The
responsibility for carrying-out the provisions of Government Code
Section 65915 (Affordable Housing) now rests with local government.
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EXHIBIT 3
SUMMARY OF VENICE COASTAL ISSUES
Locating and Planning Residential Land Use and Development
New Development
• Preservation of existing housing stock, and discouragement of
conversion of residential uses to commercial use where appropriate.
• Provision of very low, low, and moderate income housing for a cross-
section of the population, including persons with special needs.
• Illegal conversion of residential uses to commercial uses and illegal
provision of residential uses.
• Enforcement and regulation of encroachments into public rights-of-way.
Commercial Land Use and Development
• Encouragement of coastal development, recreation, neighborhood- and
visitor-serving facilities.
• Regulation of development which is out of scale with existing
community character.
• Regulation of open-air vendors along Ocean Front Walk.
• Over-development of the Coastal Zone resulting in traffic congestion.
• Over-intensification of commercial uses.
Industrial and Railroad Rights-of-Way Land Use and Development
• Preservation of the existing industrial land use base and employment
opportunities.
• Regulation of the location and types of non-coastal-dependent
industrial uses.
• Appropriate use of railroad rights-of-way.
Development within Natural and Recreational Resource Areas/
Protection of Views
• Protection of existing natural and recreational resources, including the
Venice Canals, Ballona Lagoon, Grand Canal south of Washington
Boulevard, and Venice Beach.
• Protection of coastal views and vistas.
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Preservation of Venice as a Special Coastal Community
• Preservation of community character, scale and architectural diversity.
• Development of appropriate height, density, buffer and setback
standards.
• Development of a landscape plan.
Preservation of Cultural Resources
• Preservation and restoration, where feasible and necessary, of
historical landmarks.
• Designation of historical sites as historic-cultural monuments.
• Preservation of significant archeological sites.
Shoreline Access Parking
• Conflict between residential and beach visitor parking.
• Inadequate signage of available parking for beach visitors on weekends
resulting in added traffic congestion.
• Inadequate parking provided by non-conforming uses.
• Inadequate off-street parking near or on the beach frontage for visitors
and residents.
• Intrusion of non-resident vehicles on residential streets to locate
available parking spaces.
• Preventing polluted stormwater runoff from parking lots from entering
the Venice Canals and Ballona Lagoon.
Alternate Transit and Traffic Management
• Lack of adequate alternate public transportation systems, including
shuttle systems; park and ride facilities; (bikeways;) and public bus
services.
• Lack of an adequate traffic management program to facilitate coastal
access to and within the Venice Coastal Zone.
Pedestrian and Bicycle Access
• Inadequate access to walkways due to lack of adequate parking
facilities.
• Walk streets are often illegally used as private driveways and parking.
• Open areas in activity nodes and special districts are often completely
surfaced with asphalt and concrete without provisions for pedestrian
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relief from the sun's heat and reflected glare. Resting places or other
people-oriented accommodations are seldom provided.
• The eastern sidewalk of Pacific Avenue from Via Marina to Jib Street
and the western sidewalk of Pacific Avenue from Driftwood Avenue to
Mildred Street is unimproved and cannot be used for public pedestrian
uses due to encroachments on public right-of-way and requirements
for buffers for habitat protection.
• Lack of pedestrian walkways along the banks of the Venice Canals
where the deteriorated sidewalks have been withdrawn from public
use,* and along the banks of the Ballona Lagoon.
• Lack of bicycle routes to complement existing and future
transportation modes.
• Inadequate maintenance of walkways and bikeways.
• Lack of convenient and secure bicycle (parking/storage) facilities
provided at public buildings, retail uses, parks and multiple family
housing developments.
• Inadequate handicap access (e.g. vertical ramps) to the beach.
Recreation and Visitor- C Inadequate public support facilities, such as bike racks and storage
Serving Facilities lockers, public restrooms, outdoor eating areas, trash cans, recycling
bins, etc.
C Inadequate visitor facilities on or near the Peninsula south of
Washington Boulevard.
C Utilization of vacant, publicly owned lots on the Peninsula for
recreational purposes.
C Identification, preservation and enhancement of existing recreational
and visitor serving facilities, both private and public (including water
faucets and restrooms).
C Inadequate recreational opportunities and pedestrian amenities, such
as walkways, bikeways, walk street improvements, open space and
viewing areas.
C Inadequate maintenance of public recreational facilities.
Water and Marine C Enhancement and maintenance of habitat value, including foraging
Resources, habitat for the Least Tern, an endangered species.
Environmentally
Sensitive Habitat Areas C Invasion of non-native plant species along the banks of the Venice
Canals, Ballona Lagoon and in the intertidal habitat zone.
C Regulation of surface runoff into the canals and the provision of
adequate drainage.*
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