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1463 W. Mission Boulevard

Eighteen apartments and a rear pocket park proposed on a vacant third-acre in Pomona's Midtown corridor, heard by a Zoning Administrator rather than the Planning Commission — with final sign-off still unconfirmed.

Units

18

Affordable units

3 of 18, low-income (~13%)

Zoning

Midtown Segment, Pomona Corridors Specific Plan (T4-A transect, 70 du/ac max)

Site area

~0.34 acres (~15,000 sq ft), vacant

Details

Address
1463 West Mission Boulevard, Pomona, CA 91766
Case number
DPR-000236-2024
APN
8348-020-002
Unit mix
5 one-bedroom / 12 two-bedroom / 1 three-bedroom
Stories
4
Parking
23 spaces
Ground floor
Rear pocket park, ~1,800 sq ft
State law
State Density Bonus Law — 1 concession, 2 waivers (height, open-space visibility, parking)
CEQA
Exempt, CEQA Guidelines § 15182 (project-level exemption under the Corridors Specific Plan EIR)
Hearing
Pomona Zoning Administrator, 2026-02-11

Eighteen apartments and a pocket park

A vacant third-acre parcel on Mission Boulevard in Pomona's Midtown corridor is proposed for an 18-unit apartment building — four stories, three affordable units, and a small pocket park at the rear of the site.

What's proposed

Eighteen for-rent apartments in one four-story building: five one-bedrooms, 12 two-bedrooms, and one three-bedroom. Three units — about 13 percent — are set aside as low-income under the state density bonus program, which in exchange lets the project claim one concession and two waivers: extra height along Mission Boulevard, relief from a public open-space visibility standard, and a reduced parking count. Twenty-three parking spaces are proposed for the 18 units. A roughly 1,800-square-foot pocket park sits at the rear of the site.

What it's replacing

The 0.34-acre site is vacant. It sits in the Midtown Segment of Pomona's Corridors Specific Plan, a transect-based zoning overlay adopted to guide denser, mixed-format infill along the city's commercial corridors — this parcel's T4-A designation allows up to 70 units per acre, well above what the 18-unit proposal actually uses.

How it got here

The application is a Development Plan Review (DPR-000236-2024), filed in February 2024 by developer Integrity Property Group. Because the Corridors Specific Plan already went through its own environmental review when adopted, projects that fit within it can claim a project-level CEQA exemption under Guidelines section 15182, rather than conducting a new environmental study — a form of streamlining built into specific-plan zoning. The application went to a Zoning Administrator hearing rather than the full Planning Commission: for smaller density-bonus projects, Pomona's code assigns some development review approvals to a single hearing officer instead of a commission vote. Staff recommended approval at the February 11, 2026 hearing.

Heard, not yet confirmed decided. Staff recommended adopting Resolution No. 26-002 at the February hearing; no later minutes or notice confirming that the Zoning Administrator actually signed off — or that any appeal period has run — has surfaced in the record reviewed. No architect of record is named in the staff report language reviewed.

What this means if you live nearby

If it moves forward, a vacant lot on Mission Boulevard becomes 18 apartments with a small public-facing park component. The density bonus concessions here — extra height, less parking, relaxed open-space rules — are becoming the standard toolkit for small infill in Pomona's corridor zones, not an exception.

Team

Source (staff-report): https://pomona.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1226197&GUID=0F80745B-562C-4448-A83C-1EA21393D4A1 · retrieved 2026-08-11 · last verified 2026-08-22

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