The Fullerton City Council voted on June 16, 2026, to approve a 32-unit townhome development at 111 W. Hermosa Drive on Monday night, reversing a denial it had issued just six weeks earlier, after the project’s developer agreed to fund an additional traffic study at the Harbor Boulevard–Hermosa Drive intersection.
The project, proposed by City Ventures, calls for a three-story, 32-unit residential townhome development in the city’s Laguna Lake neighborhood. Five of the units — 13% of the total — would be deed-restricted for low-income households. The property is zoned R1-20, and the project was submitted as a “builder’s remedy” development under the state’s Housing Accountability Act, a designation available to developers in cities found out of compliance with state housing-element requirements.
On May 5, 2026, the City Council voted to deny City Ventures’ appeal of a Planning Commission decision rejecting the project, upholding the commission’s denial. The applicant’s attorneys, Cox, Castle and Nicholson, subsequently agreed on May 19 to extend the appeal deadline. On June 1, City Ventures sent the city a letter asking the Council to reconsider its decision, offering to voluntarily fund a traffic impact analysis of the Harbor-Hermosa intersection — examining level of service, queuing, and collision history — to be approved by the city’s Traffic Engineer. That commitment was added as Condition 3 to a draft resolution prepared for Monday’s meeting…