101 W. Huntington Drive

What's proposed

Thirty-four for-sale condominiums on 1.06 acres — about 32 units per acre. The unit mix is unusual: 32 three-bedroom homes and two four-bedroom, ranging from 1,404 to 2,417 square feet. There is not a single studio or one-bedroom in the project. Across 54,724 square feet in three four-story buildings, that averages a little over 1,600 square feet per home. Every unit gets an attached two-car tandem garage, and driveways come off both Huntington Boulevard and Santa Clara Street. Two of the 34 units would be reserved for very low-income households — the deepest affordability tier in common use, and a smaller share than most density bonus deals produce.

The site and what's around it

A 1.06-acre site at West Huntington Drive and Santa Clara Street, parcel 5775-023-015. A single-tenant, freestanding 4,686-square-foot commercial building comes down. Two oak trees would be removed, which is why the application carries a Protected Healthy Tree Removal Permit alongside the design review. The parcel is the same category as the older motels supplying infill elsewhere in the valley: single ownership, a large paved footprint, no residential tenants to relocate, and no preservation constituency. Arcadia approved 86 condominiums on a Motel 6 site on Colorado Place in February 2026 on the same logic.

The design

No architect is named in the NOE, the three hearing notices, or the agenda materials reviewed. The developer is City Ventures, represented at the Council hearing by Nick Patterson. The plan set title block filed with ADR 24-10 would name the architect, who is not otherwise identified in any document reviewed.

Timeline

• 2025-11-25 — Planning Commission agenda includes ADR 24-10 with density bonus, TTM 24-02 (84530), and TRH 25-01.
• 2025-12-04 — Notice of public hearing published for the 34-unit project, including the two very low-income units.
• 2025-12-16 — Planning Commission considers ADR 24-10 / TTM 24-02.
• 2025-12-22 — City of Arcadia files Notice of Exemption SCH 2025120958 under CEQA Guidelines Section 15332.
• 2026-01-20 — City Council adopts Resolution No. 7669, approving the project. City Ventures' Nick Patterson tells the council the units will be sold with an HOA, with construction running roughly 24 months from final approval.

How it got here

Three approvals travel together on this one. An Architectural Design Review — ADR 24-10 — covers the buildings; Arcadia reviews the design of multifamily projects rather than approving them purely by right. A Tentative Tract Map — TTM 24-02, county number 84530 — subdivides the site for condominium ownership so the 34 homes can be sold individually. A Protected Healthy Tree Removal Permit — TRH 25-01 — is required because two healthy protected oaks would be removed. The application uses a density bonus, which allows more units than base zoning in exchange for the affordable ones, and was filed under SB 330, the Housing Crisis Act, which locks in the rules in effect on the day a complete application is submitted. On the environmental side, Arcadia filed a Class 32 categorical exemption — CEQA Guidelines Section 15332, for in-fill development on developed urban sites under five acres consistent with the general plan. It is the same exemption Arcadia used on the Colorado Collection.

Where it stands

Approved. The City Council adopted Resolution No. 7669 on January 20, 2026, approving ADR 24-10 with density bonus, TTM 24-02, and TRH 25-01. The Planning Commission had taken the item up on December 16, 2025, and the city filed a Notice of Exemption six days later, before the Council's own vote. City Ventures' representative told the council the project would take roughly 24 months to build out from final approval, which was not yet running as of the January hearing. No permit or groundbreaking has been reported since.

Why this one matters

Two very low-income units out of 34 is a light affordable set-aside for a density bonus — under six percent. Set it against the other two Arcadia projects on the board and the pattern is a city taking very different trades in the same cycle. North Village produced 20 deed-restricted low-income for-sale units out of 130, about 15 percent, in exchange for a six-story height waiver. The Colorado Collection produced nine moderate-income units out of 86. Here it is two very low-income out of 34 — the smallest share, but at the deepest income tier of the three. The unit mix is the other outlier. Thirty-two three-bedroom and two four-bedroom homes, averaging over 1,600 square feet, is family-sized for-sale product at 32 units per acre. Most valley infill at that density skews to one- and two-bedroom.

What this means if you live nearby

A single-tenant commercial building would come down, replaced by three four-story buildings with 34 homes. Two protected oaks would be removed. Driveways would open onto both Huntington and Santa Clara. The project is approved but no construction timeline has been announced. If you own a single-tenant commercial parcel on Huntington, this is the conversion Arcadia is entertaining — and the density bonus is how the unit count gets there.