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Staff recommends modernization of Ventura Fish Market; director seeks updated traffic study and truck controls

City of San Buenaventura Director's Hearing · April 14, 2026
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Summary

Staff recommended approval of a Fish Market modernization at 1449 Spinnaker Drive but the director required an updated traffic study reflecting the current site plan and operational controls (signage, ingress/egress separation, no-idling rules, staged truck scheduling) before building permits are issued.

San Buenaventura planning staff presented a recommended approval on April 13 for a major design review and coastal development permit to modernize the Ventura Fish Market at 1449 Spinnaker Drive, but the hearing focused on traffic and truck-circulation safeguards required before a building permit.

Senior planner Taylor Hernwal told the hearing that the revised project reduces earlier massing concerns and proposes a single-story market building with expanded loading capacity (two new loading docks totaling 18 bays), repaving and restriping of the existing lot, new trash enclosures, expanded market counter and public restrooms, partial reconstruction of an adjacent restaurant (Andrea's), and site landscaping. The site lies in the Southwest…

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