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Project review: Two new commercial buildings proposed at 1432 West Olive; staff flags environmental review, circulation and landscaping requirements
Summary
Porterville staff reviewed a proposal to add two commercial buildings totaling 8,900 square feet at 1432 West Olive. Departments raised concerns about a likely environmental review, pedestrian connectivity, fire access and frontage improvements; staff will issue formal comments in a PRC letter in about two weeks.
Porterville Project Review Committee members on April 16 reviewed an application to build two new commercial buildings at 1432 West Olive, a project that would add 8,900 square feet of commercial space and change the lot into a commercial center. Staff said the proposal will likely require a formal environmental review and flagged multiple site design requirements including pedestrian connectivity, four-sided architecture, stormwater and landscaping, and fire-access improvements.
Staff emphasized that the project calls for one building of about 4,400 square feet and a second of about 4,500 square feet, on property zoned General and Service Commercial and with a General Plan land-use designation of General and Service Commercial. Oscar Cepeda, the committee chairperson and associate planner, said the site currently constitutes a single lot and that adding multiple commercial uses would make it a commercial center under the Porterville development code.
Why it matters: staff said the…
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