Adelanto planning commissioners approve 9.68-acre business park with self-storage and RV parking

The Adelanto Planning Commission on March 5 approved staff’s recommendation to adopt a mitigated negative declaration under CEQA and to permit a business park that includes self-storage and recreational-vehicle storage on a 9.68-acre site south of Seneca Road and east of Fair Main.

Planner Christian Espinosa told the commission that staff’s recommendation—adopt the initial study and the mitigated negative declaration and approve Resolution P25-3 along with Location and Development Plan 24-03, Conditional Use Permit 24-05 and tentative parcel map 20841—was based on findings and subject to the conditions of approval. "Staff recommends that planning commission adopt the initial study and an indicated negative declaration and adopt Resolution P25-3 and approve Location Development Plan 24-03, Conditional Use Permit 24-05, and Tentative Parcel Map 20841," Espinosa said.

The project as presented would place seven buildings and two covered RV-parking areas on the site. The applicant, Mitchell Bradford of Diversified Pacific, described Building A as a leasing center with a lounge, kitchen, conference rooms and office suites; he said the leasing office is about 3,500 square feet and that several east‑end units are designed as 20-by-30 retail or office spaces with storage attached. Bradford said the development is intended to provide flexible, short-term leases to support small local businesses.

Bradford also explained the project is planned in three phases (Phase 1 on the west side, Phase 2 the southeast corner, Phase 3 the northwest corner). He said each phase will provide water detention areas and that there are ultimately three detention basins—one in the northeast corner of the overall site. "Each phase has to have obviously a water detention area," Bradford said, adding that later phases would be built as market demand requires and that subsequent phases will start after the prior phase is about 80–90% occupied.

Commissioners asked about security and fencing because of the planned RV storage; Bradford said the site will be fully enclosed and secured with ornamental (rod-iron) fencing when operations begin. He also said required improvements to Seneca Road and the adjacent Paramain frontage would be provided as part of the project, and that corner landscaping will be kept low for sight distance.

Chair Wagner moved to adopt staff’s recommendation and approve the entitlements; Commissioner Terry Delgado seconded the motion. Multiple commissioners responded "Aye." The audio transcript records several verbal 'Aye' responses but does not capture a complete roll-call tally audibly.

The approval adopts the CEQA finding (mitigated negative declaration) and allows the location and development plan, conditional use permit and tentative parcel map to proceed subject to the conditions recorded in the staff report. The planning file lists the ordinance and local resolution framework that permit mini-warehouses and RV storage in applicable commercial and mixed‑use zones; Espinosa noted those zoning provisions when introducing the item.

Next steps: the entitlements will be processed per the conditions of approval and the applicant may proceed with final engineering and building-permit submittals. The Planning Commission’s next regular meeting is scheduled for March 19.

Quote highlights from the record: "Staff recommends that planning commission adopt the initial study and an indicated negative declaration and adopt Resolution P25-3 and approve Location Development Plan 24-03, Conditional Use Permit 24-05, and Tentative Parcel Map 20841," Christian Espinosa, planner. "The leasing office in itself is 3,500 feet or so," Mitchell Bradford, applicant representative.

Ending: The commission approved Resolution P25-3 and the associated entitlements for the 9.68-acre project and approved tentative parcel map 20841; a second agenda item on a scrap-collection business was continued to March 19.