ON THE AGENDA Here are some items...

ON THE AGENDA

Here are some items to be considered by the Newport Beach Planning

Commission tonight.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

The commission will consider whether the owners of a six-unit

apartment building that now includes four units of affordable housing

at 206 E. Balboa Blvd. can demolish the building to replace it with

three single-family homes that would not qualify as affordable

housing.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Staff members have conducted several studies to determine the best

way to approach the issue. They crunched numbers and estimated that

replacing four units of affordable housing would mean the owner would

lose about $865,000. So staff members have recommended that the city

approve the request and require the developer to chip in $54,000 to

the city’s affordable housing in-lieu fund to make up for the lost

affordable housing.

COAST HIGHWAY CHEVRON

The commission will also revisit a request it heard in October to

demolish the Bayside Chevron station at 301E. Coast Highway and

replace it with a new station. The matter was brought back to the

commission after the developer requested some changes to the original

plans.

WHAT TO EXPECT

No surprises. The commission has already thoroughly considered

most elements of the project. So its remaining task will be to weigh

the nuts-and-bolts matters of the developer’s final design changes.