Bonita Avenue Townhomes
San Dimas approved 164 for-sale townhomes on a former U.S. Forest Service site a short walk from the Gold Line Foothill Extension's San Dimas station, with the city's General Plan Amendment, tract map, and architectural design review all adopted in one October 2025 hearing — 17 of the units reserved for moderate-income buyers.
Units
164
Affordable units
17 of 164 (moderate-income)
Site area
~9.19 acres — former U.S.D.A. Forestry Service Technology and Development Center land
Details
- Address
- 444 E. Bonita Ave, San Dimas, CA 91773 (site is just east of this address)
- Case number
- VTTM 24-04 (84663)
- APN
- 8390-016-008 and 8390-014-025
- Tenure
- For-sale condominiums (attached townhomes)
- Unit types
- Nine floor plans, 1,286–2,036 sq ft
- Density
- ~17.8 du/ac (reduced from the prior Housing Element designation of 45–55 du/ac)
- Stories
- 2 and 3
- Design
- Contemporary Spanish style — recessed accents, arches, boxed bay windows, metal Juliet railings, canvas window awnings, decorative corbels; gated
- Entitlements
- General Plan Amendment 24-04 (splits Housing Element Site #13 into 13a/13b), Vesting Tentative Tract Map 24-04 (84663), Development Plan Review 24-13 (architectural and site layout review), Tree Removal Permit 24-04, Affordable Housing Agreement
- Tree removal
- 116 trees total — 80 mature and 36 non-mature
- CEQA
- Exempt — Notice of Exemption, SCH 2025101169, statutory exemption under Gov. Code Section 65457 / CEQA Guidelines Section 15182(c) as implementing the Downtown Specific Plan EIR (SCH 2022110018)
- Construction target
- Mid-2026
164 townhomes at the Metro stop
San Dimas has approved 164 for-sale townhomes on a vacant 9.19-acre site just east of 444 E. Bonita Avenue, a short walk from the Gold Line Foothill Extension's San Dimas station. MW Investment Group is developing the project, working through San Dimas Bonita LLC; 17 of the units would be reserved for moderate-income buyers.
What's proposed
- 164 attached two- and three-story condominium townhomes across nine floor plans, 1,286–2,036 sq ft
- Contemporary Spanish design: recessed accents, arches, boxed bay windows, metal Juliet railings, canvas window awnings
- A gated community with access off Bonita Avenue, at about 17.8 units per acre
- Site was formerly the U.S. Forest Service's Technology and Development Center, at Bonita and Walnut avenues
How it got here
The approval covers a General Plan Amendment, Vesting Tentative Tract Map 24-04 (84663), a Development Plan Review, a tree removal permit, and an affordable housing agreement — the full entitlement package a project like this needs before it can pull permits. The City Council approved all of it on October 14, 2025. The Development Plan Review is not a formality layered on top of the land-use approvals: per the city's own CEQA filing, DPR 24-13 is specifically "the Architectural and Site Layout Review" — the elevations, floor plans, and gated site layout were reviewed and approved the same night as the General Plan Amendment and tract map. The tree removal permit covers 116 trees, 80 mature and 36 non-mature.
The site's density dropped from a Housing Element designation of 45–55 units per acre down to 16–25, with the 89 units cut from this site reallocated across seven other Housing Element sites elsewhere in the city (Nos. 4, 5, 7, 9, 10b, 11, 12) — San Dimas split what had been a single Housing Element site into two (13a and 13b) to make the numbers work. San Dimas filed a Notice of Exemption from full CEQA review, treating the project as implementing the Downtown Specific Plan's existing EIR under Government Code Section 65457.
Where it stands
Approved, with construction targeted for mid-2026. No building permits or a firm start date have been announced. This is a large for-sale project landing at San Dimas's Metro A Line station — the kind of transit-adjacent site cities across the SGV are being pushed to upzone under state housing law. That the city cut density here while shifting units elsewhere in its Housing Element is a real-time example of how a city can hold its overall RHNA numbers while moving where the units actually land.
Team
Source (ceqa-notice): https://ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2025101169 · retrieved 2026-08-13 · last verified 2026-08-19