Azusa Greens Senior Community

230 homes and 350,000 square feet of industrial on one golf course

What's proposed

The site and what's around it

Azusa Greens has been a working golf course at the base of the San Gabriel foothills for decades. The full property spans 92.12 acres. The approved plan splits it into three: about 19.33 acres industrial, about 20 acres residential, and 52.31 acres of reconfigured golf. Golf course conversion is one of the more reliable sources of large-site housing left in the valley, because the parcels are big, single-owner, and already surrounded by residential.

The design

Architects Orange drew the residential as a low-density, low-rise community: duplexes and triplexes at a single story, with only two buildings reaching three. MJS Landscape Architecture handled the grounds; HPA drew the industrial buildings. The choice to keep 34 of 38 buildings at one story is unusual for a project of this unit count and reads as a response to the surrounding single-family context and the foothill setting.

How it got here

This was not a by-right approval. The case number is a stack — GPA/ZC/UP/MUP/DR/TTM/DA-2023-01 — a General Plan Amendment, a Zone Change, a Use Permit, a Minor Use Permit, Design Review, a Tentative Tract Map, and a Development Agreement, all filed as one 2023 application. The project also required a full Environmental Impact Report rather than a negative declaration or an exemption; the Notice of Preparation flagged thirteen issue areas, including biological resources, tribal cultural resources, hydrology, and traffic.

What still has to happen

The entitlements are approved and the Notice of Determination is filed, closing the CEQA challenge window. The Development Agreement carries a $1.5 million total public-benefit contribution to the city. Remaining steps are tract map recordation, building permits, and whatever the Development Agreement otherwise schedules. Reported construction duration is about 22 months; phasing between the residential and industrial halves has not been published.

Why this one matters

What this means if you live nearby

The golf course does not close; it halves, from eighteen holes to nine, with the clubhouse and driving range staying. The industrial buildings are the change most likely to be felt off-site: six tilt-up structures up to 38 feet, with the truck traffic that use implies. The residential half, at one story across most of its 38 buildings, will read from the street closer to the existing neighborhood than to an apartment complex.