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Planning commission rejects Casaub Travel Center modification to add car wash amid traffic and intent concerns
Summary
The commission voted to deny a request to modify the previously approved Casaub Travel Center to replace a drive-through restaurant with a 3,600‑square‑foot express car wash and 15 vacuum spaces. Commissioners cited traffic, water use and the project’s drift from the original RV-fueling intent.
The Lake Elsinore Planning Commission voted to deny an amendment to the Casaub Travel Center application that would have replaced a previously approved drive‑through restaurant with a 3,600‑square‑foot express car wash and 15 vacuum spaces.
Nancy Winn, principal planner with the Community Development Department, summarized staff's report: the modification requests a conditional use permit and commercial design review because a car wash is a new use in the applicable zone. “The modification is only a change in land use,” Winn said, and staff prepared an addendum to the project's adopted mitigated negative…
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