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Planning commission approves Hydrant Pet Hotel capacity and hours increase with tightened oversight language
Summary
The Costa Mesa Planning Commission voted 7-0 to amend the conditional use permit for Hydrant Pet Hotel at 776 W. 17th St., allowing later closing hours and higher animal capacity while keeping operational safeguards for neighborhood impacts.
The Costa Mesa Planning Commission on Feb. 10 approved amendments to the conditional use permit for Hydrant Pet Hotel, a dog daycare, boarding and grooming business at 776 West 17th Street, increasing allowed capacity and hours while keeping conditions aimed at limiting neighborhood impacts.
Staff and the applicant said the changes respond to an existing, multi-year operation that has operated without formal complaints and to a business need for consistent operating rules.
Nut graf: The commission voted 7-0 to grant the amendment (PCUP-24-0009), finding the project exempt from CEQA under the existing-facilities rule and adopting revised condition language to allow the business to expand pickup/drop-off hours and maximum animals served while preserving staff authority to require operational changes if neighborhood problems appear.
Assistant planner Jeffrey Raimondo told commissioners the amendment request would alter three conditions of approval: increasing hours (closing time…
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