Council to Consider Retail Center Changes
The Thousand Oaks City Council tonight is set to consider allowing renovations at a Newbury Park shopping center--an issue the city’s planning commissioners deadlocked on last month.
The proposed face-lift of the Newbury Park Center at Newbury Road and Giant Oak Avenue would demolish the existing stores in stages and replace them with 91,150 square feet of retail space spread over seven buildings.
The largest building would house a multiplex movie theater run by CinemaStar Luxury Theaters of Oceanside.
The Planning Commission split 2 to 2 over the renovation plan when it considered the issue last month. Commissioners Forrest Frields and John Powers were in support of the project, while Linda Parks and Marilyn Carpenter were opposed. Commissioner Ronald Polanski abstained.
Although several planning commissioners agreed that the shopping center was in need of an overhaul, they balked at the scope of the project, which calls for removal of six oak trees and part of a hillside behind the present buildings.
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