Vallejo commissions approve plan to convert landmarked former post office into event center with noise, hours and monitoring conditions

VALLEJO — The Planning Commission and the city’s Architectural Heritage & Landmark Commission voted on Jan. 15 to allow the Delgadillo family to convert the landmarked former federal post office at 823 Marin Street into an event center, subject to conditions intended to limit neighborhood impacts.

Staff presented the project as a rehabilitation of the 1933 building that has been vacant since about 2011. Associate Planner Laura Solomon told the joint hearing the proposal would create a roughly 7,168‑square‑foot assembly room with an expected capacity of about 175 people, reestablish three historic entryways with ADA‑compliant doors, replace deteriorated federal signage with restored post‑office signage, and add parking‑lot and landscaping improvements. The project seeks a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA 23‑0005) from the AHLC and a use permit/development and landscape review (UP 18‑00002; PLN25‑0103) from the Planning Commission.

The application asks to reduce the code‑required off‑street parking from 90 spaces to 21. A consultant study reviewed by the city found that when combined with nearby city lots and proposed valet/shuttle…