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Planning commission denies modification to Casaub Travel Center to add express car wash

6174333 · October 21, 2025
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Summary

The Lake Elsinore Planning Commission rejected staff's recommendation and denied a conditional use permit to replace an approved drive‑through restaurant with a 3,600‑square‑foot express car wash at the Casaub Travel Center, citing traffic, water reuse and intent for RV fueling as concerns.

The Lake Elsinore Planning Commission voted to deny a modification to the previously approved Casaub Travel Center that would have replaced a drive‑through restaurant with a proposed 3,600‑square‑foot express car wash and 15 vacuum spaces.

Nancy Winn, principal planner with the Community Development Department, told commissioners the project site is approximately 2.8 acres at the corner of Collier Avenue and Riverside Drive (also known locally as Highway 74) and that the modification would be a land‑use change for one phase of the approved travel center. Winn said the project required a conditional use permit (CUP) for a new car wash and a commercial design review and that staff prepared an addendum to the prior mitigated negative declaration concluding…

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