Stanislaus County Planning Commission Hears Two General Plan and Rezoning Requests October 15: an RV and Boat Storage Yard Near Patterson and a Gas Station, Drive-Through and Car Wash on Central Avenue Near Ceres

The two land use changes

1. Gill RV & Boat Storage Facility — Patterson area (Application PLN2026-0010)

• Request to amend the General Plan and rezone an 8.79-acre parcel from Urban Transition and General Agriculture (A-2-10) to Planned Development.
• Purpose: an RV and boat storage facility.
• Location: 261 Orange Avenue, between 1st Street and Locust Avenue. APN 048-001-038.
• Environmental review: the Commission will consider adopting a Negative Declaration under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

2. Keyes-Central — Ceres area (Application PLN2025-0015)

Internet for the far side of the county.Video calls and live scores, from the courthouse steps to the back forty.CHECK AVAILABILITYSponsored

• Request to amend the General Plan and rezone a 7.16-acre portion of a 17.6-acre parcel from Agriculture / General Agriculture (A-2-40) to Planned Development (P-D), and to split the parcel into the 7.16-acre lot and a 10.44-acre remainder.
• Purpose: a quick-service restaurant with a drive-through, a gas station, and a convenience store with an attached car wash, built in two phases.
• Location: 5956 Central Avenue, between Turner Road and Keyes Road. APNs 041-038-014 and 041-038-015.
• Environmental review: a CEQA Mitigated Negative Declaration.

Also on the agenda

• Hickman Community Church (Use Permit PLN2024-0070): a six-phase expansion totaling about 42,469 square feet — classroom buildings, a new sanctuary, accessory buildings, outdoor improvements and a monument sign — at 854 I Street in Hickman, on parcels zoned Rural Residential (R-A) and General Agriculture (A-2-10). Mitigated Negative Declaration proposed.
• Consent item, Hudelson Land Company (Parcel Map PLN2026-0027): split a 110.8-acre parcel at 11066 John Fox Road near Hughson into two 55.4-acre parcels in the A-2-40 zone.

How to take part

• Speak at the meeting. The Commission asks speakers to keep comments to about five minutes.
• Staff reports for each item are linked from the agenda at stancounty.com/planning.
• Watch live at stancounty.com/sclive or on local cable.
• Consent items pass in one vote unless someone asks to pull them.
• Planning Commission decisions (not recommendations) can be appealed to the Board of Supervisors within 10 days. The agenda lists the appeal fee as $1,803. General Plan amendments and rezonings generally go on to the Board of Supervisors for a final decision.

Source

• Stanislaus County Planning Commission, Agenda, October 15, 2026 (stancounty.com/planning/agenda/2026/10-15-2026/CurrentAgenda.pdf).

Notes and sources

1. Image: Aerial view of Modesto and Ceres in Stanislaus County, California (file photo, illustrative). Photo: Don Ramey Logan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).
2. Author: Ryan Standley / Record of Sale, LLC / Notice Nearby.
3. Discussed on @NoticeNearYou: (pending — fill xPostUrl after live post).
4. Not legal advice. Not a newspaper. Not Legal Publication. Record of Sale, LLC (Oregon).