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Planning Commission approves Ravine Waterpark amendment to add recreation pool and cabanas
Summary
The Paso Robles Planning Commission unanimously approved an amendment to the Ravine Waterpark conditional use permit to add a recreation pool, spa and perimeter cabanas at 2301 Airport Road, conditioned on arborist protection for oak trees and required drainage/site controls.
The Planning Commission on Feb. 10 voted 7–0 to approve a development plan amendment (AMD 25‑02) allowing a new recreation pool, spa and permanent cabanas at the Ravine Waterpark, 2301 Airport Road.
Assistant Planner Piper Smith told commissioners the amendment lies within the portion of the site previously analyzed by a mitigated negative declaration and staff found no new environmental impacts requiring additional CEQA review. The project includes a 50,000‑gallon recreational pool (about 1,800 square feet), a 4,000‑gallon spa (about 150 square feet) and 13 perimeter cabanas, five of which are sited within the critical root zone of two oak trees and are conditioned on a certified arborist report.
“I will note this amendment does occur within that nine‑acre portion of the original mitigated negative declaration and it does not increase any environmental impacts,” Piper Smith said during her presentation.
Applicant Ian McCarville of Kirk Consulting said the improvements are intended to reinvigorate attendance and occur inside previously disturbed areas. “The project will disturb about 0.2 acres and remove approximately 4,410 square feet of existing lawn,” McCarville said, describing the pool and spa dimensions and the cabana layout.
Staff and the applicant told commissioners the site has an existing storm drain used by the park; the amendment does not propose tying into a culvert but the project will use a percolation/bubbler approach to manage flows and any future tie‑in would require regional water board permitting. City engineering review will evaluate drainage, floodplain and FEMA requirements prior to grading permits.
Conditions of approval require a certified arborist report and adequate tree protection measures for work near oak roots, additional parking lot landscape plantings visible from Airport Road, and compliance with existing CUP and PD conditions and mitigation measures from the original approval. Commissioners asked questions about traffic, historic temporary parking and the footbridge across the waterway; staff said the previous temporary use permit for offsite parking and the footbridge was authorized in 2007 for one year and that temporary authorization has lapsed.
Commissioner Christensen moved to adopt the draft resolution approving the amendment and Commissioner Roden seconded. The motion passed on a unanimous roll call vote, 7–0.
The project will proceed under the standard conditions of approval adopted by the commission; construction of cabanas in oak critical root zones is expressly conditioned on receipt of a certified arborist report and required protective measures.
