TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: David Chantarangsu, Development Services Director
PREPARED BY: Carl Stiehl, City Planner
SUBJECT: Reinstating Urgency Ordinance Adopting Multi-Family Objective
Design Standards
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RECOMMENDATION
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1) Waive full reading and adopt, by a four-fifths vote, Urgency Ordinance No. U-596-23
entitled: An Urgency Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Murrieta, California,
Reinstating Urgency Ordinance No. U-590-23, Amending Title 16 of the Murrieta
Municipal Code to Revise the City's Development Code, to Implement Multi-Family
Residential and Mixed-Use Residential Objective Design Standards;
2) Find that said actions are exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA) as this item meets the required actions of CEQA Guidelines Section 15183,
Projects Consistent with a Community Plan or Zoning, because the Urgency
Ordinance directs staff to adopt and implement design standards which will not
cause a significant environmental impact and implements a uniformly applied
development policy or standard that is consistent with the General Plan draft
Housing Element policy to further regulate multi-family residential development; and
3) Direct City staff to prepare, execute, and file with the Riverside County Clerk a notice
of exemption within five (5) working days of the adoption of this Ordinance.
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PRIOR ACTION/VOTE
On June 16, 2020, the City Council authorized an application for and receipt of Local Early Action Planning (LEAP) Support Grant Funds from the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to fund, in part, the preparation of design standards to facilitate multi-family residential development in the City of Murrieta. HCD awarded the full $500,000 grant in January 2021 (Vote: 5-0)1.
On April 19, 2022, the City Council app...
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