Planning commission approves rebuild of fire‑damaged warehouse with reduced setbacks

The Concord City Planning Commission on Tuesday voted 5–0 to adopt resolution 25‑09PC, approving a use permit and design and site review application to demolish and replace a fire‑damaged 7,455‑square‑foot warehouse and office building and make related frontage improvements at parcels spanning 2454 Vista Del Monte and 1130 Caven Way.

The project replaces an existing mid‑century warehouse with a new building of the same size and location. The application includes right‑of‑way dedication and new curb, gutter, sidewalk and street‑tree planting along Vista Del Monte and Caven Way; it sought a use permit to allow reduced building setbacks of 4 feet from Vista Del Monte (15 feet required) and 1.5 feet from Caven Way (10 feet required).

Principal planner Frank Abajo told commissioners the site combines two parcels totaling 0.49 acres and is zoned Service Commercial. “I’m Frank Abajo, principal planner with the Community Development Department and the project planner for the Foskett Building Rebuild,” he said, describing a plan to demolish the 7,455‑square‑foot fire‑damaged building and replace it at the same location while providing new frontage and on‑site landscaping and a bioretention area. Staff concluded the project meets findings for a use permit because the new building would preserve the existing relationship to the street…