Planning Commission backs King’s Schools expansion, recommends Council approve zoning change, CUP revision and variance

The Cathedral City Planning Commission on Sept. 3 recommended that City Council approve a zoning amendment, a revision to a conditional use permit and an administrative variance for King’s Schools of the Desert’s campus expansion at 67675 Bolero Road.

City staff said the project would add roughly 36,000 square feet of new construction over two phases for a total campus buildout of about 52,048 square feet but would not increase student enrollment. “The proposed expansion is to provide more space per student, and will not increase the student capacity,” said Dom Camps, associate planner for Cathedral City.

The project site is a 5.26-acre parcel currently occupied by King’s Schools, a private pre‑K through 8 school that has operated at the site since 1994. Staff said the site was rezoned to Resort Residential in 2002, making the school a longstanding nonconforming use; the zoning amendment would add schools as a permitted use in the RR district subject to a conditional use permit.

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