Mix Use Development Eyed In Umatilla

    The Umatilla City Council will begin considering a large development along SR 19 on June 6. The site, a former orange grove covering almost 39 acres north of the Save-A-Lot plaza, is being designed as a mixed use development with commercial and residential uses.
   The land is currently in Lake County, and would annexed as part of the plan to create nearly 3.5 acres of commercial land along the west side of SR 19. Behind the commercial land would be both attached single family homes and single family homes.
   In Lake County, the land is zoned as urban low density, and would allow for four units per acre. City documents indicate the requested future land use in the city would allow for up to five units per acre. If approved as initially conceived, the property would allow 192 residential units, up from 154 currently.