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Ontario council upholds staff recommendations on contested hotel plan after CEQA appeal; financing and DDA approvals follow
Summary
The council voted to implement staff recommendations on an appeal of a proposed 226-room hotel development after hearing CEQA-related objections from appellants; council also approved an EIR addendum, an amended and restated DDA and related financing authorizations, with one recusal recorded on bond and project findings.
Ontario City Council voted on Jan. 20 to adopt staff recommendations responding to an appeal of the Planning Commission's approval of a proposed five-story, 226-room hotel (file PDEV25007) and then approved related environmental and financing actions that advance the project.
Planning staff described the site as a 3.4-acre parcel on Champions Avenue within the Ontario Sports/Convention Center-support commercial zoning district and said the development plan would include a five-story hotel with 226 rooms and about 25,000 square feet of commercial space. Staff summarized four grounds of appeal submitted by Unite Here Local 11 and recommended denying two claims (related to consideration of a reinstated development agreement and the technical adequacy of the EIR addendum) while granting two others (procedural questions about whether a conditional-use permit was required and whether the city had taken premature steps…
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