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Planning staff reports new commercial approvals, battery project submittal and housing-element deadline
Summary
Planning staff told the California City Planning Commission that several commercial projects were recently approved or under review, the housing element draft closed its seven-day notice period and staff received a battery project submittal from an SCE subsidiary.
California City planning staff on Sept. 2 summarized the department's August activity, including several commercial approvals, infrastructure submittals and the release of the draft housing element for public notice.
"We have a couple of active planning projects. Notably, some commercial approvals happened this month. Domino's Pizza and a dog remain center called the Barking Lot," Planning Director Devari told the commission during the staff report, adding that both projects plan to occupy existing buildings on California City Boulevard and were completing building and fire inspections.
Staff also reported the Cal City Pharmacy is under review. For public infrastructure, the city received an application from an SCE subsidiary for a battery project "from a subsidiary of SCE called LinksOn," Devari said, and staff are reviewing that application for completeness. Planning staff also listed an SCE expansion and the IWPGA pipeline, a roughly 50-mile alignment project, noting that environmental documentation for the pipeline is missing from the record.
The planning department said it is close to finalizing a lease for an emergency communications tower and that the housing element third draft had completed a seven-day public-notice period; the next step is submission to the California Department of Housing and Community Development for a 60-day review. "We did release the housing element last week for a 7 day public notice period which concluded today," Devari said.
In response to commissioner questions about CoreCivic, staff said the applicant had resubmitted SPR minor application materials and staff would review the new documents against the earlier conditional approvals and applicable law. Devari clarified that the planning department had not received environmental documents for any SPR minor completeness review on that submittal.
The staff report included a one-line revenue figure for August: "This month, we had a revenue of $15.65 dollars," a figure recorded in the meeting presentation; staff did not elaborate further on the line item during the meeting.
Ending: Commissioners asked staff clarifying questions but did not take formal action on the reported projects at the Sept. 2 meeting. Staff said they would continue review of the newly submitted materials and return agendized items for any required discretionary decisions.
