Planning commission approves Peterbilt sales-and-service permit and billboard time extension

The El Paso de Robles City Planning Commission on Sept. 9 approved a new conditional use permit to allow vehicle sales at a proposed Peterbilt sales and service center and granted a time extension for an existing Outfront Media billboard permit. Commissioners voted 4-0 on both items.

City Associate Planner Katie Bannister presented the project and said the application proposes no physical changes from the plan approved in 2023. “It's the same site plan, the same elevations, the same operations that were proposed,” Bannister said. The project would occupy the northern two-thirds of the property at the southeast corner of the city near Highway 101, just south of the Target shopping area.

Why it matters: vehicle sales were an allowed use in the site's C-2 zoning district when the project was originally approved in 2023; after the city's 2024 zoning update vehicle sales are conditionally permitted in C-2. Because the zoning…