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Panel approves Pacific Edge Hotel remodel with automated parking and conditions for Sleepy Hollow Lane
Summary
After extended public comment and detailed questioning about traffic, construction hauling, and ocean views, the Planning Commission approved design and coastal entitlements for the Pacific Edge Hotel remodel, including a new automated parking garage (approx. 220 spaces) and conditions requiring pedestrian-path treatments and on‑site valet/drop-off areas to limit Sleepy Hollow Lane impacts.
The Laguna Beach Planning Commission on Nov. 5 approved a comprehensive remodel and partial expansion of the Pacific Edge Hotel, including a new automated parking garage and multiple design and operational conditions intended to reduce impacts on Sleepy Hollow Lane and nearby residents.
Wendy Jeong, principal planner, summarized the applicant’s revised project: nine buildings would be refurbished and three would receive additions; the program reduces rooms from a prior entitlement by 20 to 136 rooms; it adds a multi-level automated parking garage of roughly 58,476 square feet and proposes 220 parking spaces (plus previously entitled sidewalk-café credits). The applicant requested amendments to the 2021 entitlements (CUP, design review, coastal development permit) and a variance to allow six elevators that exceed applicable height limits for code and fire-access reasons.
Architects and the developer framed the project as a cohesive, site-specific remodel designed to preserve public access and pedestrian connections. The applicant team presented a…
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