Title
ZENK RESIDENCE (PA2025-0057)
Site Location: 2830 Bayview Drive
Recommendation
Summary:
A request for a coastal development permit to demolish an existing single-unit dwelling and construct a new 5,413-square-foot, three-story, single-unit dwelling with a 707-square-foot, attached, three-car garage and a 2,446-square-foot subterranean basement. The project also includes landscape, hardscape, drainage improvements, and site walls. A variance from Title 20 (Planning and Zoning) and Title 21 (Local Coastal Program Implementation Plan) of the Newport Beach Municipal Code is required to allow the residence to be constructed with the following deviations:
a) Encroachment of 5 feet into the required 20-foot front setback along Heliotrope Avenue for the basement and first floor;
b) Encroachment of 6 feet into the required 10-foot rear setback for the basement, first, and second floor;
c) Encroachment of 15 feet into the required 35-foot front third-floor stepback;
d) Encroachment of 19 feet into the required 25-foot rear third-floor stepback; and
e) Exceed the gross floor area limit by 1,675 square feet.
Recommended Actions:
1. Conduct a public hearing;
2. Find this project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15303 under Class 3 (New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures) of the CEQA Guidelines, because it has no potential to have a significant effect on the environment; and
3. Adopt Resolution No. 2025-015 approving the Coastal Development Permit and Variance filed as PA2024-0057.