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Planning Commission approves express car wash and conditional use permit at 1717 South Grand Avenue
Summary
The Glendora Planning Commission voted 4-0 to approve a development plan review and conditional use permit for a new express car wash at 1717 South Grand Avenue, with conditions including landscaping, traffic improvements and compliance with water-efficiency rules.
The Glendora Planning Commission on Jan. 7 approved a development plan review and conditional use permit to allow an express car wash at 1717 South Grand Avenue, passing the resolution 4-0 (Commissioner Davis absent).
Staff told the commission the site is in the Arrow Highway specific plan commercial zone and was previously developed with a 2,352-square-foot restaurant that was demolished. The proposed project includes a 6,913-square-foot building with a car wash tunnel, vacuum stations, canopy parking and approximately 8,588 square feet of landscaping; staff said the plan accommodates about 14 cars stacking within the site and that a local transportation analysis found no significant level-of-service impacts from the site’s trips.
The project designer, Sipan Nazarian, described design choices intended to reduce noise and overspray on the building façade. “The owner was very adamant about building a bigger car wash,” Nazarian said, adding the design uses divider walls lined with acoustic block paneling and locates blowers in an attic space to muffle noise. Nazarian said the facility will use electric equipment, a reclaimed-water system with clarifier tanks and roughly 95–100 square feet of solar panels on roofs. He described the water system as a multi-chamber clarifier with about 22,000 gallons of storage and a recirculation system that reuses roughly 85–90% of tunnel water.
Staff noted the final water-efficient landscape plans will be required to comply with state and city water-efficient landscape ordinances and that roadway improvements and an on-site entry off Laxford Street are part of the proposal to facilitate turn movements. Public notices were mailed to property owners within 300 feet and the item drew no public opposition at the hearing.
The commission’s approval was made by motion subject to staff revisions and conditions; an oral roll call recorded yes votes from Commissioners Kos and Norwood, Vice Chair Cremins and Chair Brian Faber. The resolution includes a categorical exemption under CEQA as identified in the staff report; the staff report did not specify a CEQA section number in the hearing record.
The resolution requires final landscape, water-efficiency and ADA/permit compliance reviews during building permit processing and lists roadway/entrance improvements and the water reclaim system among conditions to be inspected as part of plan check.
