A five-story mixed-use development with 218 apartments and ground-floor retail has been approved for Carlsbad's Village, despite concerns from residents who prefer the existing shopping center. The City Council cited California housing laws requiring approval of projects that meet state standards and provide affordable housing.
Patrons visit the French Cafe & Bakery at the Village Plaza Center on Wednesday in Carlsbad . A five-story, mixed-use development with 218 apartments and ground-floor retail got the go-ahead Tuesday for Carlsbad ’s Village, despite objections from downtown residents who prefer the 60-year-old shopping center there now.
Even though “the project is beautiful,” Blackburn said, it will replace the much-loved 1960s-era Carlsbad Village Plaza, home to about a dozen small businesses. The plaza’s pharmacy, laundromat, French bakery and cafe, Ace Hardware store and Smart and Final grocery are fixtures in the lives of neighborhood residents. Many of them are seniors who walk to the center to shop and socialize.A shopper walks towards Denault’s Ace Hardware at the Village Plaza Center on Wednesday in Carlsbad.
Resident Steve Linke, a former member of the city’s Traffic Safety and Mobility Commission, disputed a study of vehicle miles traveled, or VMT, done for the project. The study showed the proposal would produce fewer vehicle miles traveled than the shopping center does now.The VMT study should have been done on an area-wide basis instead of only for the project, he said. A wider study would show that the shopping center’s trips don’t go away, they only are transferred to other places.
Many of the businesses are run down and troubled with loitering and vandalism, he said. Several tenants had leases expiring in 2022 and 2023, and the new owner extended them “at favorable rates” to keep them in the center until the transition.
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