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Planning Commission OKs veterinary hospital at 1012 North Tustin with alternate parking rate
Summary
The City of Orange Planning Commission unanimously approved a conditional use permit and minor site plan for a veterinary hospital and building addition at 1012 North Tustin Street, finding a CEQA categorical exemption and approving an alternate parking rate after staff reviewed a traffic engineer’s parking demand study.
The City of Orange Planning Commission on a unanimous vote approved a conditional use permit and minor site plan to convert and expand an existing commercial building at 1012 North Tustin Street into a veterinary hospital.
Associate Planner Arlen Beck told the commission the project includes an 8,340-square-foot building addition, exterior façade and interior remodels, new landscaping and a revised parking layout. Based on the Orange Municipal Code, "the combined uses on the site would require 33 parking spaces. However, the site can physically, accommodate only 24 spaces," Beck said, adding the applicant submitted a licensed traffic engineer’s parking demand study that showed a maximum operational demand of 22 spaces.
The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit to establish the veterinary hospital and an alternate parking rate for the two existing uses on the site. "Staff reviewed the parking analysis that was submitted, found it to be reasonable," Beck said, and recommended adoption of Planning Commission resolution PC-1-26 approving Conditional Use Permit No. 25-0010 and Minor Site Plan Review No. 1181 and finding the project categorically exempt from CEQA.
Dominic To, one of the proposed owners, described the clinic as an urgent-care veterinary practice that will provide surgical care and extended hours, saying the team will bring "over 60 to 70 years of experience" and operate daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
There was no public comment on the item. After brief confirmation that staff conditions include signage to direct customers to on-site parking and mitigation measures to discourage spillover parking, a commissioner moved approval and the commission voted to adopt the resolution unanimously.
The commission’s approval included the conditions of approval outlined by staff to manage operations and parking. The applicant was welcomed to the city following the vote.
