Convenience Store Expansion and New Eatery on Agenda

• Two Permits Go to Planning for West and East Ends

BY BILL KOENEKER

The Malibu Planning Commission is being asked to approve permits for two separate businesses located at opposite ends of Malibu at its meeting on Oct. 6.
Sacha and Shanza Fahhati, the franchise owners of a new Subway, are asking for a conditional use permit to allow the sandwich restaurant to open at Point Dume Village.
Plans call for opening the sandwich shop at the former location of the Dume Room.
Planning officials indicated that given that neither the existing location nor the needs of the new store would produce any “significant adverse effects on the environment and is therefore exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act.” It would be the second Subway to open in Malibu.
Also on the commission agenda is an application for the expansion of an existing 24-hour service station/convenience store owned by First Oaks Oil, LLC which is scheduled to go before the commission at the same October meeting.
The request for the store located at 23387 Pacific Coast Highway is to allow for the 1397-square-foot expansion and interior remodel of an existing 24-hour convenience store, which sells alcohol. The plan includes the removal of three covered service bays, new landscaping, a new enclosed Healy tank, lighting and changes to the existing structure’s facade.
Besides a coastal permit, the applicant is seeking two conditional use permits for the operation of a service station that includes a 24-hour convenience store with attached hand carwash that will operate between the hours of 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. and the addition of more than 500 square feet to a commercial structure.
Planners determined there would be no significant adverse effects and indicated the proposal was also given a “categorical exemption.”
“The application requests a conditional use permit for a convenience store which sells beer and wine and proposes the interior remodel of the existing gas station and various site improvements,” a planning notice states.
Staff reports are not yet available for public scrutiny. The reports are generally made available 10 days or sooner before the hearing date.