1. Project: Surfliner Inn, Project 23-2254-DP/CUP/CDP/ARB
Address: 399 & 499 Linden Avenue
Applicants: R. W. Hollis, Jr., Manager, 499 Linden Managers, LLC
Planner: Brian Banks
Request of R. W. Hollis, Jr., Manager, 499 Linden Managers, LLC, to consider Project 23-2254-DP/CUP/CDP/ARB for preliminary review of a proposal to construct a new 36-room hotel with a manager's unit, restaurant, and visitor center at 499 Linden Avenue (City Parking Lot #3), and construction of a new surface public parking lot on the vacant City-owned lot between the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) corridor and Amtrak Carpinteria Train Station to the north and The Spot restaurant and unpaved parking area to the south ("Parking Lot #4"). The proposed hotel would be located nearest the Linden Avenue/Fifth Street intersection with the remainder of the parcel consisting of 46 parking spaces. The new 93 space public parking lot (Parking Lot #4) would include public restrooms and coastal trail improvements, and would be accessed from Linden Avenue with emergency access provided from Elm Avenue. The project also includes new landscaping and stormwater improvements.