Planning commission reinstates auto‑repair use at 6729 Fair Oaks Blvd.; approves Diego Woods plan, postpones Hartland Drive item

The Sacramento County Planning Commission on July 14 approved a certificate of nonconforming use to reinstate an automotive repair business at 6729 Fair Oaks Boulevard in the Carmichael community, approved a separate development plan review for a site on Diego Woods Drive in the Vineyard community, and postponed a use‑permit application for 5127 Hartland Drive after a commissioner disclosed a conflict that left the commission without a quorum.

The certificate for 6729 Fair Oaks Boulevard restores a decades‑old automotive repair use at a site that staff said was established in 1977 and later became a nonconforming use when the Fair Oaks Boulevard Main Street District Special Planning Area (SPA) was adopted in 2011. Emma James, an associate planner with Planning and Environmental Review and the lead planner on the project, told commissioners that the property’s business license history showed activity in 2004, 2016 and 2020 and that a lapse of more than 12 months had caused the nonconforming status to be lost. James said a 2023…