Nord Avenue apartments get city approval

CHICO — An apartment complex in west Chico will move forward following approval by the city Planning Commission.

The developer of 2240 Nord Avenue Apartments proposed building 21 two-story apartment buildings with a community building and parking lot on 11.7 acres at the southeast corner of Highway 32 (i.e., Nord Avenue) and West Lindo Avenue. The 208-unit complex would offer 56 one-bedroom, 136 two-bedroom and 16 three-bedroom apartments.

Commissioners approved the project unanimously (6-0 with one absence) Thursday, June 6. The city previously approved a boundary line modification for the property.

The proposed 2240 Nord Avenue Apartments project, with this site map, goes before the Planning Commission on Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Chico, California. (City of Chico/Contributed)

A day earlier, the Architectural Review and Historic Preservation Board signed off on two smaller projects in southwest Chico, approving modified lighting plans for Guardian Yards and designs for a multifamily development called Creekside Flats on Walnut.

Guardian Yards, a storage site for construction equipment between Aztec Drive and Hegan Lane, will have taller light poles than originally planned — 25 feet instead of 14 feet. The applicant proposed no other changes, and the lighting plan passed 2-0 with one recusal.

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All three of the commissioners composing the ARHPB voted on Creekside Flats. Sited on the east side of Walnut Street between East Ninth Street and Dayton Road, the project will place six one-bedroom apartments on a 0.3-acre lot in a two-story building with “contemporary” design, set back 25 feet from the upper bank of Little Chico Creek.

Creekside Flats passed 2-1 with, as city planner Tina Wilson recapped, “an additional condition for a final landscape plan demonstrating screening of utilities and a final lighting plan to be approved by planning staff.”

Neither the ARHPB nor Planning Commission meets next week or the first week of next month; the next meetings are scheduled for July 17 and July 18, respectively.