Inside CITY HALL

Jennifer Kho

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

The Planning Commission is scheduled Monday to consider a tentative

map for a cooperative housing development for low-income families.

If it is approved, the development, a collaboration between Habitat

for Humanity of Orange County and the city’s Redevelopment Agency, will

include the subdivision of two Del Mar Avenue lots into four.

The lots are owned by the Redevelopment Agency, and Habitat for

Humanity would select the owners, who would be required to fit

affordability restrictions and abide by maintenance and occupancy

agreements.

Three houses ranging from 2,859 square feet to 3,621 square feet will

be on three of the lots and the remaining lot will be used for a common

driveway, guest parking spaces and part of the front yard.

The project was approved in a development review June 22.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

Planning staff is recommending approval of the project.

The City Council in June approved a moratorium prohibiting small-lot

developments, but the moratorium does not apply to project applications

filed before May 15.

The Habitat for Humanity project was submitted May 5.

LIGHTHOUSE COASTAL COMMUNITY CHURCH

The Planning Commission will consider allowing the Lighthouse Coastal

Community Church to use part of its parking lot as a play yard on

weekdays and to establish a new early childhood development center.

The commission was scheduled to consider the request Feb. 12, but the

issue was postponed until today to give the church time to submit

additional information about the proposed early childhood development

center.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

Planning staff is recommending that the commission approve the

request.

o7 FYI:

f7 WHAT: Costa Mesa Planning Commission

WHERE: City Hall, 77 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa

WHEN: 6:30 p.m. today

PHONE: (714) 754-5245.