File #: 25-0195    Version: 1
Type: PC/DRC Consent Calendar Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 3/24/2025 In control: Planning Commission
On agenda: 4/21/2025 Final action:
Title: Time extension for Street Lights Mixed-Use Apartment Development located at 840 The City Drive South.
Attachments: 1. Staff Report, 2. Attachment 1 Extension Request Letter, dated March 4, 2025, 3. Attachment 2 City Council Resolution No. 11453, 4. Attachment 3 May 9, 2023 City Council Staff Report, 5. Attachment 4 May 9, 2023 City Council Meeting Minutes
TO: Chair and Members of the Planning Commission

THRU: Anna Pehoushek, Assistant Community Development Director

FROM: Monique Schwartz, Senior Planner


1. SUBJECT
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Time extension for Street Lights Mixed-Use Apartment Development located at 840 The City Drive South.
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2. SUMMARY
A request to extend the entitlements for a proposal to demolish an existing multi-tenant retail building in order to construct a new 225-unit mixed-use apartment development.
3. RECOMMENDED ACTION
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Approve a two-year extension for Conditional Use Permit No. 3138-21, Major Site Plan Review No. 1040-21, Design Review No. 5030-21, Administrative Adjustment No. 0051-21, and Mitigated Negative Declaration No. 1875-21.

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4. AUTHORIZING GUIDELINES
Orange Municipal Code (OMC) Section17.08.060 authorizes the Planning Commission, upon written request prior to expiration, to grant up to a two-year extension of time of any approved permit application, upon presentation of extenuating circumstances, subject to the contingency that no conditions are added, deleted, or modified. Such time extension shall not require public notice.
5. DISCUSSION AND BACKGROUND
On May 9, 2023, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 11453 (Attachment 2) denying Appeal No. 0562-23 and upholding the decision of the Planning Commission approving Conditional Use Permit No. 3138-21, Major Site Plan Review No. 1040-21, Design Review No. 5030-21, Administrative Adjustment No. 0051-21 (for a reduction of 48 parking spaces and 670 square feet of open space), and Mitigated Negative Declaration No. 1875-21, to demolish an existing multi-tenant retail building in order to construct a new 225-unit mixed-use apartment development with ground floor retail/restaurant area, subterranean parking, surface parking, residential amenities, open parking structure for the adjacent office complex uses, and related site improvements. The staff report and minutes from the hearing are included as Atta...

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