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Planning commission approves special-use permit for lifestyle treatment center near California Hot Springs
Summary
The Tulare County Planning Commission conditionally approved a special‑use permit to allow a phased “lifestyle treatment center” and church retreat near California Hot Springs, with commissioners and the Sequoia Riverlands Trust pressing for protections for an adjacent conservation easement and limits on a proposed RV component.
The Tulare County Planning Commission voted 7‑yes, 0‑no (1 absent) on Feb. 12 to conditionally approve Special Use Permit PSP24‑084, allowing a phased “lifestyle treatment center” and a Korean Seventh‑day Adventist church retreat at 43686 Tyler Creek Drive near California Hot Springs.
The project, described in a staff presentation by Russell Cashewa of the Tulare County Resource Management Agency’s project processing division, would initially convert two existing residences and a storage building to program uses, serve a staff of six and house up to 12 patients, and offer plant‑based meals, cooking classes, meditation and educational programming. Cashewa said programs could last from one week to up to a year and that further phases could add a medical clinic, church and an on‑site RV area for staff and patients only.
The commission’s approval included a categorical exemption under the California Environmental…
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