Planning Commission approves car wash on Baseline Street with landscaping and noise conditions

The City of San Bernardino Planning Commission voted to approve Conditional Use Permit 20-427 for a proposed 3,400-square-foot express tunnel car wash on a 0.9-acre parcel at the southwest corner of West Baseline Street and H Street, provided the applicant revises the site plan to include enhanced screening and noise mitigation measures and completes additional neighborhood outreach.

Staff recommended denial, citing incompatibility with single-family homes that front Orange Street because both proposed points of ingress and egress are on Orange Street, a short cul-de-sac that three nearby homes depend on for driveway access. Planner Angeline Mendoza told commissioners that although the applicant submitted a noise study showing on-site stationary noise sources meeting the general-plan threshold (60–62 dBA versus a 65 dBA ceiling), the combined effect of trip-generated noise funneled through Orange Street made staff conclude…