TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Mark Danaj, City Manager
FROM:
Anne McIntosh, Interim Community Development Director
SUBJECT:Title
Request from Manhattan Village Shopping Center for Nighttime Construction Hours (Interim Community Development Director McIntosh).
DISCUSS AND PROVIDE DIRECTION
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council consider the request by the Manhattan Village Mall to approve nighttime construction hours for the Center Court refresh construction, in addition to authorizing the Director of Community Development to approve additional requests for nighttime work for a period of six months. At the end of six months, the City Council could extend the Director's authority for an additional six months.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
No fiscal implications of this action.
BACKGROUND:
In October 2016, City Council adopted Ordinance No. 16-0020 amending the Municipal Code to allow modified construction hours. Section 9.44.030F allows the City Council to modify hours of construction activity. The Director may also modify construction hours, but only for commercial interior construction. This request includes exterior and interior construction activity.
DISCUSSION:
The property developer for the Manhattan Village Mall Refresh and Expansion, JLL PDS Los Angeles, is requesting nighttime work to be performed Monday through Saturday, between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:30 a.m., for the demolition required and subsequent installation of the high bay roof structure over the center court, and other work related to that portion of the Interior remodel. The request letter is accompanied by a Noise Assessment Report which includes noise mitigation measures that would be imposed on the nighttime construction activity.
Performing this large-scale renovation work during mall operating hours would be prohibitive as it would expose cust...
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