October 18, 2017
FROM: MIKE SANCHEZ, AICP, Assistant Director
Development and Resource Management Dept
THROUGH: BONIQUE EMERSON, Planning Manager
Development and Resource Management Dept
BY: RICKY CAPERTON, Planner III
Development and Resource Management Dept
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Consider Plan Amendment Application No. A-17-008, Rezone Application No. R-17-011 and related Environmental Assessment No. A-17-008/R-17-011 as part of a City-initiated Plan Amendment and Rezone pursuant to Fresno Municipal Code (FMC) Section 15-5803.
1. RECOMMEND APPROVAL (to the City Council) of the adoption of the Mitigated Negative Declaration prepared for Environmental Assessment No. A-17-008/R-16-003 dated September 2017.
2. RECOMMEND APPROVAL (to the City Council) of Plan Amendment Application No. A-17-008 proposing to amend the Fresno General Plan from the Public Facilities planned land use designation to the Heavy Industrial planned land use designation.
3. RECOMMEND APPROVAL (to the City Council) of Rezone Application No. R-17-011 proposing to amend the Official Zone Map to reclassify the subject property from the PI/UGM (Public and Institutional/Urban Growth Management) zone district to IH (Heavy Industrial) zone district.
4. RECOMMEND APPROVAL (to the City Council) of the Disposition and Development Agreement between the City of Fresno and Darling Ingredients Inc., pertaining to relocation and the transfer and development of real property on the southwest corner of Jensen and Cornelia Avenues
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City-initiated Plan Amendment Application No. A-17-008 and Rezone Application No. R-17-011 pertains to approximately 40 acres of property (5449 West Jensen Avenue; APNs: 327-030-41T and 327-030-38T) near the Fresno-Clovis Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) to accommodate relocation of the existing Darling Rendering Facility, currently located on a 5.22 acre parcel on Belgravia Road between Church and East California Avenues in the southwest a...
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