7-17-2023 KILLEFER SCHOOL ADAPTIVE REUSE PROJECTCITY OF ORANGE
LEGAL NOTICE OF PLANNING COMMISSION
PUBLIC MEETING
MEETING
LOCATION: City Council Chamber, 300 E. Chapman Avenue, Orange, CA 92866.
Members of the public can also access meetings on Spectrum Cable Channel 3 and AT&T
U-verse Channel 99 and streamed live and on-demand on the City’s website.
All interested persons may submit comments and may be heard on any relevant matter
relating to the proposed actions by mail, email, voicemail, or in-person, as set forth in the
July 17, 2023, Planning Commission agenda to be posted on the City’s website at
www.cityoforange.org.
DATE: MONDAY, JULY 17, 2023
TIME: 7:00 P.M. (or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard)
SUBJECT: CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NO. 3198-22, DESIGN REVIEW NO. 5104-22, AND
MINOR SITE PLAN REVIEW NO. 1122-22, ADAPTIVE REUSE OF THE EXISTING
HISTORIC KILLEFER SCHOOL AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW TWO-STORY
LABORATORY BUILDING FOR THE CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR
QUANTUM STUDIES
PROPERTY
LOCATION: 541 N. LEMON STREET, ORANGE, CA (APN: 039-132-15)
REQUEST: A proposal to operate the Chapman University Institute for Quantum Studies (private
college) in the Multiple-Family Residential (R-3) zoning district. The project includes
rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the historic Killefer School building to faculty office
and laboratory space and construction of a new two-story laboratory building. Other site
improvements include new landscaping, ADA path of travel, parking lot reconfiguration,
and new trash/utility enclosures.
ENVIRONMENTAL
INFORMATION: The proposed project is categorically exempt from the provisions of the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) per State CEQA Guidelines 15303 (Class 3 - New
Construction or Conversion of Small Structures) and 15331 (Class 31 - Historical
Resource Restoration/Rehabilitation), because the new laboratory building does not
exceed 10,000 square feet in floor area and is located in an urbanized area with adequate
utility connections, and the adaptive reuse of the historic Killefer School building is
consistent with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for rehabilitating historic buildings.
PROPERTY
OWNER: CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
PROJECT
APPLICANT: COLLETTE CREPPELL (CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY)
FURTHER
INFORMATION: To obtain further information about the project, please contact Ryan Agbayani, Associate
Planner, at the Planning Division of the City of Orange, 300 East Chapman Avenue via
telephone at (714) 744-7225 or via e-mail at ragbayani@cityoforange.org.
If you challenge any decision to this request in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you
or someone else raised at the public meeting described in this notice, or in a written correspondence
delivered to the Planning Commission at, or prior to, the public meeting.