Victorville planners recommend rezoning 20 acres, approve conditional use permit for Delama Motorsports

The Victorville Planning Commission voted to recommend that the City Council amend the Civic Center Community Sustainability Specific Plan to redesignate about 20 acres from Office Campus to Civic Commercial and to conditionally permit new vehicle sales at 14444 Adstar Drive, where Delama (Delamo/Delama) Motorsports plans an 89,000-square-foot powersports sales and service facility.

Staff told the commission the Civic Center specific plan — adopted in 2016 and covering roughly 473 acres — was intended to promote infill and office-campus uses but that the Office Campus area east of Interstate 15 has not attracted uses aligned with that vision. Planning staff proposed redesignation for the approximately 20-acre area and limited the applicant’s request to the subject building and site at 14444 Adstar Drive. Staff expanded the amendment to the larger office campus area because existing and anticipated development patterns in that sector are “more indicative of the civic commercial land use designation.”

The staff report said the specific plan amendment was found to be within the scope of a previously adopted mitigated negative declaration and that the conditional use permit for vehicle sales is categorically exempt under the CEQA Guidelines for existing facilities (categorical exemption for in-fill/existing developed sites). Staff recommended adoption of resolution P-25-011 to recommend City Council approval of the specific-plan amendment and resolution P-25-012 to recommend approval of the conditional use permit, subject to the attached conditions of approval.

No members of the public offered testimony during the public hearing. Commissioner Marsh moved to adopt the item consistent with staff recommendations; Commissioner Marshall seconded. A roll-call vote recorded yes votes from Commissioner Marsh, Commissioner Marshall and Chair Kurth; Vice Chair Mason and Commissioner Thomas were absent. The motion passed and the commission’s approval functions as a recommendation to the City Council.

Why it matters: The redesignation would change allowable uses in a roughly 20-acre portion of the Civic Center plan area from office campus to civic commercial, potentially enabling auto-oriented and retail uses where office development had been planned.

The matter will next go to the Victorville City Council for final action. The planning commission record includes the staff analysis, recommended conditions of approval, and the two resolutions forwarded to council.