A developer has proposed a six-story building with five floors of apartments or condominiums on a single 5,168-square-foot lot surrounded by older single-family homes and one- and two-story apartment buildings in south Oceanside.<\/p>\n
The South Tremont Street neighborhood is between South Coast Highway and the railroad tracks, a beach neighborhood where long-time residents have lamented the continuing transition to vacation rentals and taller, multi-family buildings. The trend has picked up with the help of recent state laws encouraging higher, more dense construction to address the regional housing shortage.<\/p>\n
The property is occupied by a single-story, 1,872-square-foot, three-bedroom house built in 1979 that last sold for $1.2 million in December 2021, according to the real estate website Redfin.<\/p>\n
Owner and developer, Daniel Steele of Valley Center, met with city planning officials recently for a conference to go over details of the proposal.<\/p>\n
\u201cA developer\u2019s conference \u2026 is an opportunity the city offers as an informal forum for prospective applicants to receive preliminary input \u2026 on conceptual plans that may or may not ultimately evolve into formal application submittals,\u201d said Oceanside Development Services Director Darlene Nicandro.<\/p>\n
\u201cNeither a pre-application or formal application have been submitted to the city,\u201d Nicandro said. \u201cThe plans provided by the applicant are typically high-level conceptual plans for discussion purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Plans submitted to the city show one commercial unit and seven parking spaces at ground level beneath five floors with a total of 18 one- and two-bedrooms apartments or condominiums. The plans also say the development qualifies for three accessory dwelling units \u201cpost construction,\u201d though it\u2019s unclear how that might work.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe South Tremont project is still very early in coordination with the city,\u201d Steele said Wednesday. \u201cThe current concept (is) designed under Oceanside\u2019s mixed-use zoning and consistent with state housing policy encouraging walkable, transit-oriented housing near services.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe design is evolving, and we\u2019re working closely with (the city) staff to provide up to 20 on-site parking spaces while keeping the project pedestrian-friendly and aligned with the Coast Highway corridor plan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Oceanside has been working for more than a decade on its Coast Highway corridor plan, which extends along both sides of the road, also known as the old Pacific Coast Highway, from Harbor Drive to the Carlsbad border.<\/p>\n
An environmental impact report approved by the City Council in 2019 for the corridor outlined proposed roundabouts, lane reductions from four lanes to two, additional crosswalks with flashing lights, improved sidewalks, raised medians, bike lanes and more. Construction could begin next summer, pending the allocation of funding.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re local owners and long-term investors in Oceanside,\u201d Steele said. \u201cOur focus is on thoughtful infill that strengthens the City\u2019s housing mix and coastal character.\u201d<\/p>\n
The project at the southeast corner of Tremont and West streets is one of many throughout the region that use state housing laws to build taller, denser, multi-family developments by locating near transit centers or including affordable housing for qualified low-income tenants.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first of many terrible projects that developers plan for Oceanside as the result of Sacramento\u2019s latest one-size-fits-all housing mandate eliminating local control,\u201d said Joel West, of the group Save South O.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore expensive market-rate units along the coast are not going to solve the city\u2019s gap in affordable housing,\u201d West said. \u201cUnder SB79, this project is claiming unprecedented concessions for providing four affordable units alongside 14 full-priced units.\u201d<\/p>\n
The concessions provided under state law allow the developer to exceed the limits of city code requirements for things such as parking, setbacks and landscaping.<\/p>\n
The building in the 1000 block of South Tremont would cover 87% of its 5,168-square-foot lot with a 10-foot front setback and no setbacks from the side and rear property lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A developer has proposed a six-story building with five floors of apartments or condominiums on a single 5,168-square-foot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[21347,29986,29987,29989,74,76,75,29988],"class_list":{"0":"post-45574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-density-bonus-law","9":"tag-mixed-used-development","10":"tag-oceanside-beach-community","11":"tag-oceanside-planning-division","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-headlines","14":"tag-san-diego-news","15":"tag-south-tremont-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}