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Committee advances plan to convert motel into 70-room recuperative care facility at 111 West Redlands Boulevard
Summary
The Development and Environmental Review Committee voted to forward a conditional use permit to the Planning Commission for a proposed conversion of a portion of a motel into a 70-room recuperative care facility at 111 West Redlands Boulevard; staff said the project is categorically exempt under section 15.301.
The Development and Environmental Review Committee on Jan. 22 voted to forward a conditional use permit to the Planning Commission for a proposal to convert part of a motel at 111 West Redlands Boulevard into a recuperative care facility.
Planning staff described the project as converting portions of three of the motel’s four buildings to create a combined 70 rooms on a property of about 1.97 acres located in the Commercial Regional 3 (CR-3) zone. Staff said the three buildings under review include Building B (about 6,400 square feet), Building C (about 6,500 square feet) and a separate portion of Building B comprising roughly 5,400 square feet. The staff report recommended the committee move the item forward to the Planning Commission for consideration; the committee approved the recommendation with a motion and second and recorded no dissenting votes.
Why it matters: the conversion would repurpose an existing motel property into congregate recovery/recuperative housing, increasing capacity for short-term care beds in a commercially zoned area. Staff told the committee the project is being evaluated as categorically exempt under section 15.301 "for existing facilities" per the transcript's description of state guidelines.
Details presented by staff noted the combined room count of 70, the approximate lot size (1.97 acres), and the square-footage estimates for the affected buildings. The applicant, identified in the record as Mr. Mujica, said he had no comments at the meeting. Committee members did not ask for additional conditions and approved forwarding the item to the Planning Commission; the record lists the Planning Commission hearing date as "unspecified" in staff’s recommendation.
The committee’s action was procedural: forwarding the permit application to the Planning Commission. Staff indicated they will follow up with the applicant by email for next steps and submittals. No formal vote tally with member names was recorded in the committee transcript; the chair announced the motion and a second and said the item was approved with "no nays."
