The purposes of the individual special purpose zones, including specific plans, and the manner in which they are applied are as follows.
A.
I-HC Institutional-Health Care Zone. The primary intent of the institutional-health care zone is to accommodate hospitals, medical clinics, medical research facilities, rehabilitation centers, and residential facilities that provide a high degree of medical care and supervision. This zone also allows employee housing as an accessory use. The zone also accommodates educational institutions and religious assembly uses including the Loma Linda University campus inclusive of lecture halls, administration, classroom, laboratory, and service buildings. Also allowed is student housing (dorms, detached or attached dwelling units) and employee housing (detached or attached dwelling units). This zone implements the general plan institutional and health care land use designations.
B.
OS Open Space Zone. The intent of the open space zone is to define properties reserved for the preservation of wilderness areas for passive recreational use and other undeveloped recreation lands as well as for improved parks and outdoor recreational areas such as ballfields and soccer fields. Development of structures is prohibited in preserve areas, except for those structures that may be ancillary to a passive recreational use (e.g., restrooms and small service buildings). This zone implements the general plan recreation and parks land use designations.
C.
PC Planned Community Zone. The intent of the planned community zone is to accommodate flexibility in development, encourage creative and imaginative design, and provide for development of parcels of land as coordinated projects involving a mixture of residential densities and housing types, community facilities both public and private and commercial areas. This zone is further intended to accommodate the optimum integration of urban and natural amenities within developments. The planned community zone allows for creation of unique use regulations and development standards for a development project, provided the regulations and standards clearly implement general plan policy and subsequent project proposals under the planned community zone reflect the character envisioned by the city at the time of planned community zone approval. This zone implements various general plan land use designations and can be used to implement the special planning area designation.
D.
PF Public Facilities Zone. The intent of the public facilities zone is to accommodate civic, government, quasipublic uses (e.g., utility easements), and public parks and recreational facilities. Civic uses include a range of uses and facilities that support government service operations (e.g., City Hall, fire stations, parks, and senior and community centers). This zone implements the general plan city facilities, institutional and parks land use designations.
E.
Specific Plans. Authority for the specific plan is established by California Government Code, Title 8, Division 1, Chapter 3, Article 8, Sections 65450 through 65457, which grants authority to cities to adopt specific plans for the purposes of implementing the goals and policies of their general plans. A specific plan must be consistent with the adopted general plan of the jurisdiction within which it is located. In turn, all subsequent subdivision, development, public works projects and zoning regulations for the defined area must be consistent with the adopted specific plan. A draft specific plan presented for review by the city shall include detailed information in the form of text and diagrams, organized in an outline and format approved by the community development director and in compliance with state law (California Government Code Section 65451). After the adoption of a specific plan, subsequent projects to implement the specific plan may be approved or adopted within an area covered by a specific plan only if first found consistent with the specific plan. The city council may impose a specific plan fee surcharge on development permits within the specific plan area, in compliance with state law (California Government Code Section 65456).
Adopted specific plans, along with a summary description of each, are identified in Table SP.
Table SP Specific Plans | |
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Specific Plan | General Description of Special Plan |
The Groves at Loma Linda Specific Plan (Ordinance No. O 2018-04; Case File No. SPA/ZMA 17-193 adopted June 26, 2018) | A 299.81 acre area, within the corporate limit of the city of Loma Linda, coincident with an area identified in the Loma Linda General Plan as special planning area D. The Groves at Loma Linda Specific Plan (aka The Groves) establishes land uses, development standards, design guidelines and implementation program for this area consistent with implementing policies in General Plan Section 2.2.7.4, including Table 2-B, and voter-approved Measure V. The allowed land uses, development standards and complete specific plan components for The Groves are on file with the community development department and the city clerk. |
The allowed uses and development standards for specific plans are developed as part of the project approval process. The allowed uses and development standards for the above established specific plans are on file with the community development department and the city clerk. |
(Ord. 739 § 4, 2017; Ord. 748 § 4, 2018; Ord. 764 § 2, 2021)