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Planning Commission recommends denial of Hubbard Apartments project citing airport safety and compatibility concerns
Summary
The Chico Planning Commission on Feb. 20 voted 6-0 to recommend that the City Council deny the Hubbard Apartments application — a set of land-use changes to allow 39 multifamily units on a 2-acre parcel at Ceres and Lassen — after staff, airport officials and an ALUC representative warned the project would remove airport overflight and airport environs overlays and conflict with the Butte County Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan.
The Chico Planning Commission on Feb. 20 voted unanimously to recommend that the City Council deny the Hubbard Apartments proposal — consisting of a city-initiated code amendment (24-02), a general plan amendment (22-01), a rezone (22-01) and architectural review (22-03) — after staff, airport officials and a former Airport Land Use Commission chair raised safety and noise concerns related to the site’s location under the flight path of Chico Regional Airport.
The applicant sought land-use changes to allow a 39-unit multifamily development on a roughly 2-acre parcel at the southwest corner of Ceres and Lassen avenues. Project planner Tina Wilson told the commission the applicant’s project description proposed eliminating the airport environs and airport overflight overlay zones for the site — a change that would apply broadly unless limited — and that Caltrans Aeronautics submitted a letter…
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