Planning commission approves CHIBA charter high school at 1400 Industrial Street with mitigation, fencing and lighting conditions

The City of Redding Planning Commission on a unanimous voice vote approved a plan development application (PD 2025-230) for the California Heritage Youth Build Academy, a proposed 36,000-square-foot charter high school at 1400 Industrial Street that would include classrooms, offices, a dining area and a gym.

Staff presented the project as a grant-funded charter high school with a maximum enrollment of 290 students and an anticipated maximum of about 130 students on campus at any given time. The site plan includes a parking area, a soccer field and basketball courts and will require a box culvert crossing over Little Churn Creek for Industrial Street access. Staff recommended adoption of a Mitigated Negative Declaration under the California Environmental Quality Act and a mitigation monitoring program; the commission accepted that recommendation and approved the application with added conditions.

The school site is zoned RM-9 PD (residential, multifamily, planned development overlay) and has a General Plan designation for 6–10 units per acre. Staff said the zoning allows schools in RM districts and that the plan-development overlay provides…