Commission approves two‑story medical office and parking structure with 3% parking deficiency

The Planning & Transportation Commission voted to approve planned development permit PDP2024‑0006 and a related minor exception to allow construction of a two‑story, 18,032‑square‑foot medical office building and a two‑story, 21,106‑square‑foot parking structure at 27820 Center Drive in the Business Park Industrial zone.

Associate planner Sarah McMillan told the commission the project proposes four tenant suites (approximately 4,000 sq ft each), medical uses including an ambulatory endoscopy center and imaging services, and hours that would generally be 7 a.m.–6 p.m. weekdays with limited Saturday hours. Staff identified a parking design providing 116 spaces where code requires 120, a deficiency of four spaces or about 3 percent; McMillan said the resolution includes a condition requiring the applicant to address operational remedies if parking impacts occur. “The proposed 18,032 square foot medical office building therefore would require a 120 spaces. The project site has been designed with a 116 parking space, a deficiency of 4 spaces or 3%,” McMillan said.

Commissioners probed how CC&Rs and the homeowners association (HOA) interact with proposed slope changes and whether the association could effectively veto improvements; staff and the applicant said the association had provided a preliminary letter and a final approval would be required at permit issuance. Commissioner Berton also asked that a voluntary donation reference be corrected to the Mission Viejo Community Foundation (instead of a nonexistent foundation name) in the resolution language; staff agreed to update the document. The motion to approve carried unanimously with the conditions and the Class 32 CEQA infill exemption.