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Arroyo Grande City Council to vote on 92-unit residential development

April 13, 2026

By KAREN VELIE

The Arroyo Grande City Council will vote on an appeal of a proposed 92-unit residential development on Tuesday.

The project, Creekside Junction, includes two four-story residential buildings with 20 studios, 58 one bedroom and 14 two-bedroom units. The 1.81-acre property is located at 1271 and 1281 James Way near Curl Fitness.

Of the 92 units, 15% will be affordable housing.

The Arroyo Grande Planning Commission voted 3-0 in January to to approve the project.

Pismo Medical Properties, Arroyo Grande Partners and Ray B Bunnell appealed the project on Jan. 30 with amendments in March. Their primary argument is that the parking is inadequate.

In January, the Arroyo Grande Planning Commission approved the applicant’s request to lower the number of required parking spaces from 99 to 98 and to reduce the minimum of 10% of lot area for parking to 8.23%.

“Broadly speaking, state law is increasingly limiting in the instances where cities can impose parking requirements on housing projects,” according to Tuesday’s city Council staff report. “For instance, state law generally prohibits cities from imposing any parking requirements on projects located within a half mile of certain major transit stops.”

City staff is recommending the city council reject the appeal and approve the project.

 


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These town governments seem to be falling right in line with SLO. The ugly, boxy Soviet-style dense housing, no parking, stupid all-electric infrastructure blocking the surrounding viewscapes are the blight of SLO town. Sad, tragic to see.


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Absolute Nimbism here. Every city is dealing with this. Pearl Clutchers cry always. Always teary eyed spoiled Pearl Clutchers.


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I don’t think there is a planning department in the county that understands the law. Qualifying transit bus stops must have a frequency of 15 minutes or less during morning and afternoon commute hours or be a rail stop. They just use the “we can’t do anything because of the state” to push projects.


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Obispan I logged in to state what you stated. AB 2097 does not apply to this property. Arroyo Grande can and should enforce parking minimums to avoid impacting adjoining businesses. Developers are smarter than planners and convince planners that any old bus stop means they don’t have to provide parking. The article doesn’t say who is being quoted but whoever is being quoted from the City is clearly misinterpreting the law. AG City council should ask staff to explain the law. If this is what staff is telling them the council is being misinformed.


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We have a very irresponsible city council. Not one of the City Council members or Mayor has any common sense…

Where is the water gonna come from? We’ve had good rainfall this year yet Lopez Lake is only 87% full. Are they gonna depend on State water? What about infrastructure or the school system? This happened in the nineties and we had over 3,000 students at the high school. What about the roads and traffic is nobody thinking these days??? Just because you can doesn’t mean you should let’s get rid of all five of these City Council members and our very incompetent Mayor and build a more responsible…accountable city.


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Another disaster in the making. Cities need to push back on these Newscum mandates. Developers are having a field day with this “affordable” nonsense.


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3-0 vote?, isn’t there 5 people on the commission, even with one seat currently vacant why isn’t it a requirement that the remaining 4 vote on anything? Why is it allowed to have a vacant position? The city has to approve this they have funneled so much of the city budget into compensations and pensions they only way for them to get money for basic services, roads and infrastructure is to kiss up to the developers and approve anything thing they want. Only 15% to so called affordable, and yet they will claim this development is required by state law and addressing the “serious” problem of affordable housing, give me a break.


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Ok, if you stackem and packem, where will they park their cars?


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