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Escondido zoning administrator approves drive‑through coffee shop at 1202 East Valley Parkway
Summary
The Escondido zoning administrator approved PL240275, a conditional use permit and administrative adjustment for a 2,800-square-foot commercial building with a 1,600-square-foot coffee shop drive‑through at 1202 East Valley Parkway, subject to conditions including resolution of private easement rights. Staff found the project CEQA-exempt and said traffic and queuing analyses met local guidelines.
Escondido’s zoning administrator on May 4 approved a conditional use permit and an administrative adjustment to allow a 1,600-square-foot coffee shop with a drive‑through and a 1,200-square-foot retail suite at 1202 East Valley Parkway, subject to conditions that include resolving private easement encroachments before any ground disturbance.
Senior Planner Robert Berry summarized the application, PL240275, saying the proposal would build a 2,800-square-foot commercial building on a roughly 0.4-acre corner parcel at Ash Street and East Valley Parkway. "The proposed project is categorically exempt from further CEQA review," Berry said, citing CEQA Guidelines §15303 for small-scale commercial construction, and recommended approval with draft conditions.
The site, Berry said, was occupied by a bank in the 1980s, later by various retailers, and was destroyed…
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