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Planning staff reviews 2024 projects, zoning code overhaul takes effect
Summary
City planning staff summarized 2024 activity including a 57‑home Sequoias subdivision, the Great Scott approval, several new indoor recreation and retail uses, two Enterprise Way industrial projects entering EIR review and a zoning code amendment that took effect the meeting day.
LAKE FOREST — City planning staff on March 6 presented a year‑in‑review summarizing major land‑use approvals, building activity and a zoning code rewrite that went into effect that day.
Jennifer Mansour, community development staff, told the Planning Commission the department approved one major residential project in 2024 — the Sequoias neighborhood in the Meadows community, a 57‑home single‑family subdivision — and that grading has finished and the first phase of building permits issued in February 2025.
Mansour said the commission provided a recommendation to the City Council on the Great Scott project, a mixed entitlement package allowing a contractor storage yard and associated open space; the Council…
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