The Hemet City Council approved the Highpointe Aster River Oaks Apartments.The county’s Planning Commission had approved the 228 multi-family unit project on March 10, and the Planning Commission’s approval was appealed to the Hemet City Council. The 5-0 city council vote on April 22 denied the appeal and upheld the Planning Commission’s determinations, including the environmental Mitigated Negative Declaration.The 10.07-acre property is owned by Highpointe Hemet I, LLC, and is at the southeast corner of West Stetson Avenue and South Elk Street. The 22.6 dwelling units per acre is under the limit both for the land’s R-3 Multi Family Residential zoning, which has a maximum of 30 dwelling units per acre and for the general plan’s land use designation of High Density Residen
