SANTA CRUZ — The eight-story Clocktower Center mixed-use development at 2020 N. Pacific Ave. in downtown Santa Cruz will move forward after the project was approved by the city’s Planning Commission Thursday evening.

Following the meeting’s oral communications component, where community members can speak to items of concern not listed on the meeting agenda, Santa Cruz Senior Planner Timothy Maier gave a presentation about the project in its current, modified form. In March 2024, the project developer, Workbench, submitted a preapplication with two alternate sets of plans: an eight-story mixed-use structure with 174 housing units and a 16-story mixed-use building with 260 housing units, which the developer ultimately abandoned.

Workbench later decided to move forward with a modified versi

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