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Planning commission approves second warehouse for Seaside Packaging after traffic and landscaping review
Summary
The Planning Commission approved an amendment to Seaside Packaging’s conditional-use permit to allow a new 31,000-square-foot warehouse (A2024-0001) at 1300 West La Brea Avenue with an addendum to a 2022 mitigated negative declaration. The applicant said the new building will accommodate increased demand and eliminate temporary outdoor staging.
The Santa Maria Planning Commission voted to approve a permit amendment (A2024-0001) and an addendum to the project’s 2022 mitigated negative declaration, allowing a 31,000-square-foot second warehouse building for Seaside Packaging at 1300 West La Brea Avenue.
Cody Graybell, the city’s senior planner, said the 6.2-acre site already contains an existing 40,000-square-foot building (Building 1) approved in 2021 and currently operating. The amendment would permit Building 2 to be constructed on the western half of the site. Graybell said the proposal includes 30 parking spaces (30 required), bioretention basins, 26% landscape coverage (the code requires 15%), and a loading dock at the rear of the new building roughly 300 feet from the sidewalk.
Operations and traffic: Graybell said the…
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