Chino Planning Commission approves 7-Eleven gas station and Quick Quack car wash at Central and Schaefer avenues
Commissioners voted 7-0 on Aug. 19 to approve a convenience store with beer and wine sales, a fuel canopy and an express car wash on a 1.99-acre site. They also recommended a lower-density designation for 13.5 acres in The Preserve.
The Chino Planning Commission voted 7-0 on Aug. 19 to approve a 7-Eleven gas station and a Quick Quack express car wash at the southeast corner of Central and Schaefer avenues, according to the action record the city posted on Legistar.
The motion, made by Commissioner Brandon Blanchard and seconded by Commissioner Annmarie Lemento, adopted Resolution No. PC2026-023. It approved a site approval and two special conditional use permits, one for the car wash and one for beer and wine sales.
The applicant is Evergreen Devco. The staff report describes a 4,761-square-foot convenience store, a 3,724-square-foot pump canopy with 10 dispensers and a detached 3,284-square-foot car wash on two parcels totaling 1.99 acres in the Commercial Service zone.
A vacant building on the property, which the report says once held a bar and a liquor store, is to be demolished.
Alcohol license and operations
The store would operate 24 hours a day with about 15 employees, the report says. The applicant is seeking a Type 20 state license, which covers beer and wine sold for drinking elsewhere.
The report says three off-sale licenses are allowed in the census tract and two exist. It adds that Chino requires findings of public convenience and necessity for such licenses, and that those findings are written into the resolution.
The Police Department reviewed the request and "has no concerns," the staff report says.
The car wash would run from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and expects to employ 18 people. The report lists queuing space for 19 vehicles, 14 vacuum stations and capacity for up to 155 cars an hour.
Engineering conditions require Central Avenue to be widened for a 14-foot northbound right-turn lane. Both driveways would be limited to right turns in and out. The site plan shows 37 parking spaces where 20 are required.
Staff found the project exempt from state environmental review as infill development. The report says no comments came in after a notice was mailed to owners within 300 feet and published Aug. 8.
Preserve land-use change goes to council
In a separate 7-0 vote, the commission recommended that the City Council approve a specific plan amendment and a general plan amendment for 13.5 acres at the northwest and northeast corners of Pine Avenue and Main Street in The Preserve.
The applicant is RCCD Inc. for Falloncrest Farms. The change would move the land from a designation with a range of 24 to 40 homes per acre to one with a range of 12 to 20.
The staff report says the number of homes in that phase would stay consistent with the master plan because more land would be set aside for housing. Commercial space would drop by 46,762 square feet.
The report says the Morongo Band of Mission Indians requested consultation and cultural resource protection measures, which were added to the specific plan language for the site.
The council has final say on both amendments. No council hearing date appears in the records reviewed.