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CITY OF RIVERSIDE COUNCILMEMBERS CITY COUNCIL ]3 MD K C T P E O E A L HE A O F N I O A T R E E F MR Minutes of: Regular Meeting of the City Council ¥ E N F ? S B O S O Date of Meeting: January 27, 1998 ^ p, o N U D N Time of Meeting: 2 p.m. ~ Place of Meeting: Council Chamber, City Hall ~ WARDS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Roll Call: Present X X X X X X X CLOSED SESSIONS The Mayor and Councilmembers recessed to the Council Chamber Board Room for closed sessions pursuant to (1) Government Code ~54956.9 to confer with and/or receive advice from legal counsel concerning one case of existing litigation in which disclosure would jeopardize existing settlement negotiations; and (2) Gov-ernment Code ~54957.6 to review the City Council's position and instruct designated representatives regarding salaries, salary schedules or compensation paid in the form of fringe benefits of employees of the Police Unit, Police Management Unit, Fire Unit, Fire Management Unit, General Unit, Utilities Field Unit and Ref-use Unit Employee Organizations. The Mayor and Councilmembers, except Councilmember Thompson, returned to the Council Chamber. ~ PARKING, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOP-MENT AUTHORITIES The City Council recessed for the purpose of sitting as the Parking Authority, the Industrial Development Authority and the Economic Development Authority. There being no business to be conducted, the meetings were adjourned; and the body reconvened as the City Council. PUBLIC HEARINGS AT 3 P.M. ZONING CASES SP-OO4-967/RZ-002-978 - APPEAL - ORANGECREST SPE- CIFIC PLAN - CONTINUED 3 P.M.--Further hearing was called on the appeal of Raymond Becker, Senior Vice President-Development, of Communities Southwest Development & Construction Co., the authorized agent for Orangecrest Hills, L.P., as it pertains to residential densities approved by the Planning Commission in portions of the Specific Plan area and appeal of the Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) as it pertains to compliance of the requested Specific Plan amendment with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the mitigation of school impacts, from the decision of the Planning Commission in approving, with modifications, the request of Orangecrest Hills, L.P., a Washington limited partnership, by Communities Southwest Development & Construction Co., a Washington Corporation, its General Partner, to amend the Orangecrest Specific Plan, the City of Riverside General Plan and the Municipal Code (Title 19) as they pertain to approximately 502 vacant, noncontiguous acres within the Orangecrest Specific Plan area, which encompasses a total of approximately 1,500 acres easterly of Wood Rood, adjacent to Van Buren Boulevard and March Air Reserve Base. The request includes redesignating this acreage from industrial, residential, commercial and office designations to a range of single-family residential designations and park and office designations and relocation of the library site. Rezoning these properties is proposed as appropriate to reflect the amended specific plan designations. 83-197