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Santee council approves 285‑unit Parkview project with traffic and habitat conditions
Summary
The council unanimously approved a 285‑unit condominium project on a 22.17‑acre site west of Cottonwood Avenue, adopting an addendum to the housing element program EIR and conditioning a dual left‑turn lane and a 100‑foot riparian buffer among other mitigations.
The Santee City Council voted unanimously to approve a 285‑unit multi‑family residential development, known as Parkview or the Cottonwood and Park project, and adopted an addendum to the city’s previously certified program environmental impact report.
City planning staff presented the proposal as a 22.17‑acre condominium project with three product types, units sized between about 1,342 and 2,074 square feet, two‑ to four‑bedroom layouts and two‑car garages. Rachel Linda, an associate planner with the Planning and Building Department, said, “The project as proposed complies with the density requirements.”
The project will be built on land rezoned in 2022 through the city’s housing element rezone program. The council approved a set of conditions intended to address traffic, floodplain and biological concerns raised in staff reports and by residents. Minjie May, the city’s principal traffic engineer, told the council that the project itself would generate an estimated 126 additional PM‑peak left turns at the Magnolia/Mast intersection and…
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