Commission recommends variance to lot‑frontage rule for four Fairway Canyon lots after resident objections

Beaumont Planning Commission on Feb. 12 recommended approval of a variance permit to reduce minimum lot frontage on four lots within the Fairway Canyon/ Meritage tract, after a public hearing that included emailed and live resident comments sharply critical of the project.

Planning staff presented the application for a major variance from the lot‑frontage minimum tied to condition 3.6 of tentative tract map 31462, which requires at least 35 feet of frontage for lots fronting on knuckles or cul‑de‑sacs. Jillian Fountain, planning staff, said the variance would leave the four lots with frontage between about 29.97 linear feet and 33.32 linear feet (staff listed the affected lots within tract 31462, including lots in dash 29 and dash 27). Fountain said the tract map and a certified environmental impact report for the Oak Valley specific plan have been on file since the early 2000s and that staff…