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Planning commission continues review of proposed 4‑story, 52‑room hotel amid concerns about scale, materials and fiscal assumptions
Summary
The commission continued Commission Review & Approval 955 for a proposed 4‑story, 52‑room hotel at Plum Lane and Idaho Street after neighbors and several commissioners raised concerns about building massing, on-site materials (asphalt under the building), parking adequacy and whether the city’s fiscal model accounts for extended‑stay revenue patterns.
The Redlands Planning Commission on April 9 continued review of Commission Review and Approval 955, a proposal for a four‑story, 52‑room extended‑stay hotel on a 0.77‑acre vacant lot at the northeast corner of Plum Lane and Idaho Street.
Staff said the 29,820‑square‑foot project would provide 57 parking spaces, meet the city’s Code parking ratio for hotels, and qualified for a CEQA infill exemption. Staff also presented a socioeconomic cost‑benefit study that found a positive ratio of 9.76.
During questioning, several commissioners pressed staff and the applicant on fiscal assumptions underlying the cost‑benefit analysis — specifically whether transient‑occupancy‑tax (TOT) projections accounted for extended‑stay…
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