OCEANSIDE — An overflow crowd filled City Hall as the Oceanside Planning Commission unanimously recommended the controversial Eddie Jones Warehouse on Monday.
The emotionally charged meeting saw more than 100 residents attend with dozens speaking to the commission, most of whom were against the project, or at least wanting fewer truck docks. The commission amended the project, and its conditional use permit, to 34 terminals spread across the four buildings.
The project consists of four buildings at 250 Eddie Jones Way, totaling 497,822 square feet on 31.79 acres adjacent to the Oceanside Municipal Airport between Benet and Alex roads and north of state Route 76. Plans called for 56 docks, down from the 114 originally proposed, and 593 parking spaces for employees, although the commission sliced the number of docks.
There would also be 316,366 square-feet of landscaping with dozens of new trees to be planted and a 100-foot biological buffer from the San Luis Rey River habitat.
