The Fresno Planning Commission unanimously voted to recommend that the Fresno City Council deny a proposed South Central Specific Plan.
Many people from the business community in south Fresno spoke against the plan at Wednesday’s Planning Commission meeting, fearing the plan would be detrimental new development and existing businesses.
Why it matters: The South Central Specific Plan governs development across the area generally located south of California Ave., north of American Ave. and between Fig Ave. and Peace Ave.
- The current plan as proposed would reduce heavy industrial acreage by 17%. It would create a Business Park, Regional Business Park and Light Industrial land use buffer between Heavy Industrial and sensitive uses. It would also assign residential land use designations to all existing parcels with residences, among other things.
Go deeper: The plan, as proposed, would create the South Central Specific Plan Overlay Zone DIstrict, which would implement a number of development standards.
- Such standards include prohibiting certain uses within 1,000 feet of a sensitive area, applying building setback standards and applying additional regulations to warehouse, storage and distribution use classifications.
What we’re watching: The plan will head before the Fresno City Council on Dec. 5.
- The city council will choose to approve or deny the plan, or it will direct city staff to amend it.
