Community Benefits

General Plan Consistency

  • Consistent with the existing General Plan designation and zoning for the site. The General Plan is currently being updated and the Industrial Zone is being maintained.

  • Aligns with City priorities - The City’s Economic Development Element estimates that the City will have a deficit in industrial land during this planning period and that Industrial land should be preserved.

Comprehensive Analysis

  • Thorough analysis in compliance with CEQA

  • Design features improve stormwater treatment, site access, and include replanting of biological buffer areas with native coastal species

  • In response to community feedback, an economic study was commissioned for the project. The study determined that 500 new jobs would added and that the City would receive more than $70,000 in annual revenue from the project. Click here to download the study.

Context-Sensitive Design

  • Maintains the 100-foot buffer from the edge of the San Luis Rey River riparian habitat

  • Completes the missing sidewalk segment on Benet Road

  • Complies with Airport Overlay Zone

  • Includes landscape buffers to shield from public roadways and residential uses

  • Includes Operations Management Plan with Good Neighbor Policy

Soil Remediation

  • The redevelopment of this site benefits the immediate area by identifying and removing significant levels of hazardous materials left there by the former owner of this site, and in so doing reduces risks to the neighborhood and enhances value.

  • The cleanup is being accomplished within the exacting framework of the California Land Reuse and Revitalization Act (CLRRA) program in close cooperation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC). 

    The old building was demolished in January 2023. Air monitoring was in place for the entire demolition and will continue to be in place throughout any soil disturbance activity. RPG added more air monitoring stations than was required by the oversight agency. 

    The data is not yet available on the CLRRA website, but a link will be added here as soon as it is.