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Planning staff outlines code revisions, reports on mall redevelopment application and code-enforcement actions
Summary
Staff told the Westminster Planning Commission the zoning code rewrite will set numeric thresholds to distinguish administrative from discretionary approvals, reported several cell-phone CUPs now expired, summarized a mall redevelopment application indicating roughly 2,250 housing units (application incomplete), and said code enforcement has initiated compliance steps against unauthorized trucking and a truck-driving school.
Planning department staff used the Feb. 4, 2026 commission meeting to summarize forthcoming code clarifications, permit status for wireless conditional use permits (CUPs), a major mall redevelopment application and active code-enforcement work.
On administrative versus discretionary approvals, staff said past practice leaned on whether a CEQA determination was required but that the planned code rewrite will establish clearer numeric thresholds tied to building size so that larger commercial or industrial projects automatically go to the commission while smaller projects can be handled at staff level. "So…
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