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Council approves 40-unit condominium project at 220 Victoria Street after debate on parking and open space
Summary
The City Council approved a 40-unit condominium common-interest development at 220 Victoria Street that requires multiple deviations from zoning standards, including reduced parking and smaller garages. Council members and the planning commission debated setbacks, open-space allocations and pedestrian safety before a 7-0 approval.
The Costa Mesa City Council voted 7-0 on July 15 to approve a proposed 40-unit residential common-interest development at 220 Victoria Street after extended review and public comment.
The project, proposed on a 1.77-acre site north of Victoria Place, requests a general-plan amendment to apply the city's Residential Incentive Overlay and a master-plan approval with deviations to several development standards. The council's approval adopted a mitigated negative declaration under the California Environmental Quality Act and included rezone and tentative tract map actions required for the condominium subdivision.
In presentations before the vote, staff described the site as currently zoned for general commercial uses and noted that the overlay is intended to provide incentives to redevelop underused commercial parcels into housing corridors. The developer requested deviations (the ordinance calls them "deviations") from the condominium code and overlay standards for floor-area ratio, common open space,…
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