Hammond Landowners Assn. v. City of Weed CA3

BACKGROUND

Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores (Love’s) proposes to construct and operate a Love’s Travel Stop on a 17.61-acre site located on the west side of Interstate-5 (I-5) at the Vista Drive offramp in the City of Weed (City) in Siskiyou County. The project site is immediately adjacent to I-5. The general vicinity is rural and primarily undeveloped, with the exception of paved roadways, overhead electrical lines and some residential development to the west. The project site’s general plan land use designation is General Commercial. The project site was approved for an ARCO station in 2012, but it was not developed. Land adjacent to the west of the project site is also designated for commercial development. Further west of the commercial area, there is a large open space between the commercial area and a residential area. Development east of the project site and I-5 includes fast food restaurants, a Grocery Outlet store, hotels, and gas

2 stations. The project would consist of a 16-position car fueling station, an 8-position truck fueling station, an 8,450-square-foot convenience store, two fast food restaurants, a roughly 9,800-square-foot vehicle maintenance building,…