Merced Planning Commission approves 17‑lot subdivision at 2500 East Childs Avenue

The Merced Planning Commission on Nov. 5 approved a 17‑lot tentative subdivision map for about 3.38 acres at 2500 East Childs Avenue, voting unanimously to adopt staff’s recommendation subject to 49 conditions.

Assistant Planner Matt Livingston told the commission the proposal (Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map No. 25‑0013) would create a new cul‑de‑sac off East Childs, yield 17 single‑family lots ranging roughly between 5,565 and 14,579 square feet (nine lots about 6,200 square feet), and comply with the site’s R‑15 low‑density residential general plan designation. Livingston said the project’s conditions require undergrounding utilities, limiting construction to daylight hours, installing traffic control markings as directed by the city engineer, and designing the cul‑de‑sac to fire‑department turnaround standards.

The applicant’s representative, Cesar Perez of Guadalupe Engineering,…