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Recommendation to adopt revised findings to deny a request for the modification of an approved Conditional Use Permit to allow the relocation of a check cashing business to a newly created commercial storefront at 1240 Gladys Avenue. (Case No. 0202-35 (Modification))
(District 4)
DISCUSSION
The Planning Commission approved the original Conditional Use Permit for the operation of a 70-square foot check cashing/money transfer booth within the La Bodega Market #5 on May 2, 2002. Dolex Dollar Express is now requesting the modification and relocation of the aforementioned Conditional Use Permit to establish a separate check cashing and money transfer business in a newly created 554-square foot storefront commercial space within the same building (Attachment I) that iscurrently occupied by the market. The site is located in the CCP Zone District and General Plan Land Use Designation of LUD#8A (Traditional Retail Strip Commercial).
The project site was developed in 1930 as a 3,192-square foot retail commercial building with no on-site parking spaces and is located in the Community Pedestrian-Oriented (CCP) zoning district. Within the existing commercial building is a Karate instruction studio and a retail glass and mirror sales business.
On July 21,2005, the Planning Commission unanimously approved the request for a modification of the approved Conditional Use Permit to establish a check cashing/money transfer booth within the market located at 1240 Gladys Avenue subject to conditions (Attachment 2). Subsequently, the West Eastside Community Association appealed the Planning Commission’s decision, arguing that the subject property has a history of chronic code enforcement violations and a lack of off-street parking spaces for the existing businesses that currently occupy the property (Attachment 3).
In taking their action, the Planning Commission found that the proposed use provides a neighborhood service: Additionally, conditions recommended by the Police...
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