Director approves 14-unit Meta Street apartments with design and utility conditions

The director of San Buenaventura's community development hearing on April 13 approved a major design review and lot line adjustment for a 14-unit apartment building at 1279 Meta Street, imposing several design and infrastructure conditions intended to address neighborhood concerns.

Associate planner Brian Garvey summarized the project as a 2'.5'story, roughly 10,000-square-foot side-court housing building formed from a lot merger of two parcels at 1279 Meta Street and 157 South Crimea Street. The revised proposal, submitted in January 2025 and later reduced to 14 units, includes one inclusionary studio and one inclusionary two-bedroom unit, six on-site parking spaces plus one accessible stall and an additional off-site space for an existing front unit, for eight spaces total. Staff said the project qualifies for a 20% density bonus after setting aside approximately 15% of base-density units as affordable and requests a waiver under the state density bonus law for third-floor area limits.

Neighbors raised objections…