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Susanville council introduces zoning ordinance to allow Love’s Travel Stop after planning commission recommendation
Summary
The city’s planning commission recommended rezoning a 79.6-acre parcel for a Love’s Travel Stop and the city council introduced Ordinance 26-1051 to amend the zoning map; council members voted unanimously to waive first reading. Opponents at public comment warned local gas stations could be harmed.
The Susanville City Council voted to introduce and waive the first reading of Ordinance 26-1051 on a zoning map amendment that would rezone a 79.6-acre parcel (APN 107-280-017) to General Commercial/Shopping Center, a change requested to allow a Love’s Travel Stop and related commercial uses. The Planning Commission had recommended the rezoning earlier in the evening and certified required CEQA findings at an April hearing.
Planning consultant Heather Gerwitz summarized the prior environmental review and zoning steps, saying the action before the commission and council is “to consider adoption of a resolution recommending to the city council to introduce and then adopt the zoning ordinance amendment for the map to change the site from its current light industrial to general commercial shopping center.” She emphasized that the prezone would only take effect after annexation of the site into the city’s jurisdiction.
At the public-comment period, Dave Johnson of Edstall and Sons Petroleum urged the council to consider local market impacts, saying he represents a long-standing local fuel supplier and warning a large travel-stop could “potentially put most of them out of business,” with resulting lost jobs and tax revenue. He told the council the city is already “overserved” for fuel and cited a nearby example where a new truck stop later went to auction.
City staff and the Planning Commission described the proposed rezoning as the regulatory step that will follow annexation. The Planning Commission approved Resolution 26-1203 recommending the zoning change and the council then moved to introduce Ordinance 26-1051; both votes were recorded as carried unanimously.
Next steps for the proposal include any required second reading/adoption of the ordinance by the council and completion of the annexation process that must occur before the rezoning becomes effective. The planning and environmental materials cited during discussion remain part of the administrative record.
