The proposed development of a Costco warehouse store in Newbury Park will go before the Thousand Oaks planning commission on Mon., Nov. 24.

Planning commissioners will be asked to approve zoning changes to the Specific Plan, including how the roads are configured. The Specific Plan from 1996 expected the roads to change, and Costco wants to keep them essentially the way they are now, said John Prescott, community development director.

"The roads are proposed to match the way they are right now, but wider," Prescott said.

Also a 1.8-acre parcel of land now zoned C-2 for highway is proposed to be changed to C-3 to accommodate a community shopping center and match the 16.8-acre site in the Seventh-day Adventist Specific Plan Area off Wendy Drive, north of the 101 Freeway.

A special-use permit for a Costco service station with eight pumps is also being sought, along with a development permit to construct a Costco store.

In November 2007, Costco Wholesale filed an entitlement permit application with Thousand Oaks to build a 152,148square-foot membership store and gasoline station at 915 Estates Drive in Newbury Park.

At that time, a Costco regional vice president said the Oxnard and Westlake Village stores had reached their full capacity. He said the Westlake Village store was one of the company's best stores but it can't be expanded.

The Newbury Park store is expected to have a bigger deli, an expanded fresh foods section and more major appliances, the Costco representative said.

Costco will generate about $600,000 to $750,000 a year in sales and gasoline tax revenue for the city, said T.O. economic development manager Gary Wartik.

"It will be more convenient for residents in the middle of Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park," he said. "They offer gasoline at a dime to 12 cents a gallon cheaper, too."

Sales tax on purchases in Ventura County is 7.25 cents compared to Los Angeles County's 8.25 cents, Wartik said.

For some members, that's incentive enough to shop at the Costco stores in Simi Valley or Oxnard rather than the store in the city of Westlake Village.

The planning commission is made up of five Thousand Oaks residents, each appointed by a City Council member. A commissioner serves for as long as the appointing council member remains in office. The planning commission will meet at City Hall, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., at 6:30 p.m. on Monday.

The planning commissioners are Daryl Reynolds, Mark Lunn, Al Adam, Barry Fisher and Tina Grumney.

If the project is approved by the planning commission, the freeway offramp will need to be wider and have additional traffic lights, Prescott said.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church, the landowners, will be responsible for the street improvements and land preparation. Utilities must be placed underground.

Costco would lease the site from the landowners, Prescott said.