THOUSAND OAKS : Cafe Seeks OK From Planners to Open

City planning staff is recommending that Mimi’s Cafe, a family-style restaurant, be allowed to open and serve alcoholic beverages in the Village Square shopping center, which is being remodeled, at the corner of Moorpark Road and Brazil Street.

The Thousand Oaks Planning Commission will consider the proposal during its meeting Monday night.

If the proposal is approved as presented, the owners will be required to pay $10,288 to help ease the expected traffic increase caused by the restaurant.

The restaurant owners also want to place a 26-square-foot illuminated sign on the building and a 36-square-foot sign in the parking lot. Both signs comply with the city’s sign ordinance, associate planner Lori Young said.

“The proposed restaurant is compatible with all of the surrounding commercial uses,” Young wrote in her recommendation to the commission. The commission convenes at 7:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers in the Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd.