For the Economic Development Committee [October 23, 2024]
TO: Honorable Economic Development Committee Members
APPROVAL: Colby Cataldi, Director of Community Development
FROM: Daniel Casey, Principal Planner
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Update on the West Coast Boulevard and Locust Avenue Warehouse Project (Master Case No. 2023-0024)
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DISCUSSION:
Rialto Springs, LLC, the applicant, proposes to develop a 225,173 square foot industrial warehouse building on 11.19 net acres of land located at the southeast corner of Locust Avenue and West Coast Boulevard. On August 7, 2024, the Planning Commission voted 3-1 (1 abstention and 2 vacancies) to approve the project. On August 21, 2024, Ana Gonzalez, Executive Director at the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, filed an Appeal Form requesting that the City Council consider the project and overturn the Planning Commission's decision. A location map is included as Attachment No. 1, and the project site plan is included as Attachment No. 2.
Planning staff presented the Appeal to the City Council on September 24, 2024. After discussion, the City Council voted 5-0 to continue the Appeal item to the November 12, 2024 City Council meeting. In continuing the item, the City Council directed staff to further explore incorporating a terminus into the design of West Coast Boulevard and to schedule the item for the October Economic Development Committee (EDC) meeting.
Staff from Planning, Engineering Services, and the Fire Department met with the applicant on October 8, 2024 and October 14, 2024 and discussed various options that would terminate West Coast Boulevard at the east end of the project frontage. Staff and the applicant agreed upon a design that will include the installation of a cul-de-sac bulb on the east end of the West Coast Boulevard project frontage, a gate across West Coast Boulevard to physically restrict vehicle access to emergency vehicles only, and a "hammerhead" turnaround at the existing terminus...
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