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Votes at a glance: Planning Commission actions on retail, fitness and continuance
Summary
The Planning Commission approved a quick-service drive-through (Dutch Bros), a Planet Fitness gym, and continued one item to May 13; this roundup lists the motions, votes and key conditions from the May hearing.
The San Bernardino Planning Commission took several routine actions at its meeting. Below are the items, motions and outcomes recorded in the hearing.
Dutch Bros drive-through (CUP 23-14) - Action: Adopt staff recommendation and approve Conditional Use Permit 23-14 for a quick-service drive-through restaurant (Dutch Bros). - Key details: 950-square-foot building, two drive-through lanes that merge after the ordering board, two driveways and one exit, hours of operation proposed 5 a.m.–11 p.m. daily, three to four employees per shift (one dedicated for traffic control). Staff recommended and found the project categorically exempt under CEQA Section 15332. - Vote: Unanimous approval. Conditions include on-site street improvements and dedications as required by Public Works (condition number 42 in Resolution 2025-017) and median/turning improvements to manage illegal left turns.
Planet Fitness (Development Permit P24-05) - Action: Approve Development Permit P24-05 to develop a new Planet Fitness health club on a vacant pad within an existing commercial center at West 40th Street and North Sierra Way. - Key details: 17,962-square-foot fitness club; project modifies a pad that had previous tenants destroyed by fire and aims to add 21 parking spaces to the center, new landscaping and buffering to adjacent residential parcels. Staff recommended a categorical exemption under CEQA and approval (Resolution 2025-019). - Vote: Unanimous approval. Staff will correct the project address in the resolution packet (clarified as West 40th Street).
Continuance (Item 5) - Action: Planning staff requested a continuance for Item 5 to the next regular meeting (May 13) after discovering additional technical analysis was not included in the packet. The applicant concurred. - Vote: Motion to continue passed unanimously.
Procedural notes: Staff corrected minor errors in resolutions where draft language incorrectly referenced the Development and Environmental Review Committee rather than the Planning Commission for CEQA determinations; those typos were fixed in the estate of the staff presentations.
