CAMARILLO : Planners to Consider Factory Outlet Mall
The Camarillo Planning Commission tonight will consider approving a controversial 22-acre factory outlet mall to be located south of the Ventura Freeway between Las Posas Road and Carmen Drive.
The meeting will mark the second time that the commission has considered the 250,000-square-foot mall. Last year, both the commission and the City Council approved the proposal only to have those decisions overturned by a lawsuit filed by an Oxnard developer and a retired Camarillo businessman.
As a result of the lawsuit, a Ventura Superior Court judge blocked the project and declared the city’s attempt to provide tax rebates to the developer as a gift of public funds.
The judge also required that the site be scrutinized by a full environmental impact report. Before the project can be approved, the commissioners tonight will have to certify that report and accept its recommendations dealing with traffic, noise and air pollution generated by the proposed facility.
If approved, the mall will be the second factory outlet complex in Ventura County. A similar-size facility recently broke ground in Oxnard, about five miles north of the proposed Camarillo mall.
The commission’s meeting tonight begins at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, 601 Carmen Drive.
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