Arden Way Drive-Through Restaurants (P25-022)

At a glance

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What: project P25-022, two drive-through restaurants (captioned as a Shake Shack and a Pollo Campero) and a retail building on 2.92 acres at Arden Way and Exposition Boulevard in the Point West Plaza shopping center, replacing an existing 30,235-square-foot commercial building. It needs a PUD schematic plan amendment, conditional use permits and site plan and design review.
Where it stands: approved October 22 with a condition that the building's murals be saved and displayed on site if possible.
Debate: the old building is a brutalist structure that City Council declined to list as a landmark in August 2024; one commissioner opposed the demolition.

Staff supported the project. A traffic study led to plan changes, and a queuing management plan is required so cars do not back into the street.
Two speakers supported it: the head of a business improvement district that has employed formerly homeless workers to keep the vacant site clean, and the North Sacramento Chamber of Commerce.
A motion to approve first fell short: the commission needed seven votes and had only six. After one commissioner changed their vote and the murals condition was added as a friendly amendment, the roll call passed.

2026-10-22 - Planning and Design Commission - Approved after a first vote failed to reach the required count; mural-preservation condition added.