What Brea is about to decide
The commission meets Tuesday at 6:00 PM, Council Chambers, 1 Civic Center Circle, Brea (also accessible via teleconference locations posted on the agenda). These are pending decisions from the posted agenda — not outcomes. Every item links to the official record.
Source: official agenda packet (PDF) · Full documents and future agendas: horizon.agendalink.app/engage/breaca
✅ What actually happened (per the adopted minutes): No decision was made on Brea Towne Centre. Per the commission’s signed minutes (meeting page; a scanned document, approved August 25, 2026), four commissioners attended (Gribble, Madden, Perez, Schlotterbeck) and Commissioner Donini was absent. On Item 3.A, Precise Development No. 2026-02 and Conditional Use Permit No. 2026-06, the minutes say: “Due to lack of quorum, the Planning Commission was unable to take action on the item. Staff requested that the item be continued to the next regularly scheduled Planning Commission meeting.” The minutes do not explain the lack of a quorum with four members present. The July 14 minutes were approved “4-0-1, with Commissioner Donini absent” (Schlotterbeck/Madden). City Planner Maribeth Tinio said the August 11 meeting had been cancelled because planned absences would leave the commission without a quorum, and that the next meeting would be August 25 — where, per that meeting’s minutes, the project was approved 4-0-1; see our August 25 brief. Adjourned 6:07 p.m.
The headline: This is a light agenda — one public hearing is the only substantive item. The commission will consider a land-use and parking modification for the Brea Towne Centre shopping center at Imperial Highway and Randolph Avenue. Staff recommends approval; as of the posted agenda, no decision has been made.
🏬 Development & land use
- Brea Towne Centre land-use and parking modification: public hearing on Precise Development (PD) No. 2026-02 and Conditional Use Permit (CUP) No. 2026-06 for the existing shopping center at 1000-1080 East Imperial Highway. The applicant, Jon Adams on behalf of KKC Imperial, LLC, is asking to amend PD No. 19-78 to align the center's permitted land uses with the Brea Core Specific Plan and remove its existing cap on aggregate restaurant square footage, and to obtain a CUP modifying off-street parking requirements to accommodate a new 3,714-square-foot restaurant use in Suites A2 and A3. Staff recommends approval and finds the project categorically exempt from CEQA under Guidelines Section 15301 (Class 1, existing facilities). Item 3.A
- Parking math at issue: the agenda states that strict application of the Brea City Code would require 245 parking stalls for the existing uses plus the new restaurant — a deficit of 54 stalls against the center's 191 existing stalls. The applicant's parking study, using a shared-parking methodology, projects a peak weekend demand of 177 occupied stalls, "a surplus of approximately 14 parking stalls during peak weekend conditions." Item 3.A
- One draft condition of approval: any future construction on the site with a valuation exceeding $209,208.00 would trigger full ADA path-of-travel compliance requirements. Item 3.A
🪑 Also on the agenda
- Consent calendar: the commission will consider approving the draft minutes of its July 14, 2026 meeting. Item 2.A
- Administrative items: committee reports, plus receiving and filing the Planning Division's citywide project-updates list dated July 21, 2026 (projects in process and previously approved/entitled projects) — an informational item, not a decision. Items 4.A–4.B
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