3 new housing tracts are up for Costa Mesa planners’ OK
The Costa Mesa Planning Commission will consider three residential development projects totaling almost 50 units Monday.
The largest of them calls for building 33 two-story, detached homes on about 3.7 acres at 2626 Harbor Blvd., on the northeast corner of Harbor and Merrimac Way.
The project would also include two private parks, city planning documents say. The homes, including the garage, would range from 2,390 square feet to 2,815 square feet, and contain three or four bedrooms.
Architecturally, the homes are designed to be “modern Spanish,” “plantation” or “modern farmhouse,” according to city staff.
The Harbor Boulevard property once housed a Lincoln-Mercury automobile dealership. The Suburban Collection’s Buick-GMC-Cadillac dealership also occupied the site while its permanent location across Merrimac was rebuilt, according to planning documents.
The City Council first approved a version of the project in 2011, but the entitlement was twice extended in the years since.
Also on Monday’s agenda is a proposed 10-unit project on 522 and 526 Bernard St., west of Harbor.
Planners are seeking permission to build the cluster of two- and three-story units on a little more than a half-acre. Facing the wrecking ball on the site are seven bungalow-style apartments originally built in 1948.
The homes would be about 1,600 square feet with a contemporary design, similar to other new three-story Westside homes.
The council approved another version of the Bernard Street project in 2013, but changes since then — including making the homes smaller — have brought the project back to the commission.
Commissioners will also review a proposal for six two-story, ranch-style homes on almost a half-acre lot at 592 Hamilton St., west of Maple Avenue.
That project would also entail demolition of four one-story residential units built in the early 1960s.
Three of the homes would have two bedrooms and 1,523 square feet; the remaining three would have three bedrooms and 1,700 square feet.
The Planning Commission meeting begins Monday at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 77 Fair Drive.
