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Council upholds appeal of Carmonita Road warehouse project, sends decision back to staff
Summary
After hours of public testimony and expert back-and-forth over air quality, traffic and CEQA thresholds, the Norwalk City Council voted to uphold CREED LA's appeal of a proposed 139,000-square-foot warehouse at 14830 Carmonita Road and directed staff to prepare findings and a resolution. The matter will return to council for final action.
The Norwalk City Council voted to uphold an appeal of a proposed industrial warehouse at 14830 Carmonita Road, directing staff to prepare a resolution with findings and return the matter to the council for final action. The vote followed a multilayered public hearing in which opponents, developers and technical consultants disputed whether the project required a full environmental impact report (EIR) under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Appellants represented by Aden Marshall of CREED LA argued the project's recirculated mitigated negative declaration (MND) was insufficient. Marshall told the council the study “lacked a VMT study. It lacked measurements of nighttime noise. It lacked a fire flow study,”…
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