Planning commission approves Smith Street market and warehouse with cart-lock and canopy conditions

The Santa Maria Planning Commission approved a conditional use permit to convert an existing warehouse at 621 South Smith Street into a mixed-use market and warehouse, voting to add conditions requiring a shopping-cart containment mechanism and to extend the proposed entry canopy onto the existing roof.

Greg Fine, associate planner for the city, told the commission the project would remodel a roughly 6,200-square-foot building and add about 3,400 square feet for warehouse storage so the combined market and warehouse would total about 9,600 square feet. Staff said the applicant proposes 35 parking spaces where 27 are required, new landscaping (approximately 23% coverage), alley widening to allow two-way circulation, a new loading area on the north side and…