Design Review Board recommends Planning Commission review for urgent care conversion at 1240 Airport Park Boulevard

Ukiah City Design Review Board members voted Oct. 23 to recommend the Planning Commission approve an application from Mendocino Community Health Clinics to convert an existing building at 1240 Airport Park Boulevard into an urgent care clinic and administrative offices and to merge two adjacent parcels to provide parking and landscaping.

Jesse, planning staff, described the proposal as “an adaptive reuse and reutilization of an existing structure, 1240 Airport Park Boulevard,” and said the application requests a site-development permit, a use permit for urgent care operations and a lot merger (file no. 250011). He told the board the applicant has submitted a Delta‑1 revision set that responds to agency comments, added an ambulance access at the rear per Valley Fire Authority recommendations, and proposes two small photovoltaic carport installations in the parking area.

The board’s action followed extensive questioning about parking, stormwater, and operations. Staff said the city’s parking formula for…