ALHAMBRA >> Residents and other concerned citizens have filed an appeal of a Planning Commission decision to approve a development on South Fremont Avenue that would include a 134,000-square-foot Lowe’s home improvement store and garden center.

The commission voted 6-2 Jan. 17 to approve a industrial planned development permit for the project at 875 and 1111 South Fremont, which would include the Lowe’s, two six-story office buildings and a six-level parking structure.

The appeal, filed by former City Council candidate Eric Sunada on behalf of himself and 21 other people, contends that the traffic analysis conducted for the project was insufficient and asks for more details about the report’s calculations. In the past, locals had asked that the city prepare a full environmental impact report rather than a mitigated negative declaration that uses the city of Poway in San Diego County as precedent for its findings in Alhambra.

In a letter to the city’s planning staff, resident and environmental consultant Ron Sahu called the traffic study “fatally compromised.”

“Due to improper and unsupported assumptions made regarding the nature of the proposed project, the Traffic Study consciously significantly underestimates the number of additional trips that will be generated as a result of the project

The appellants paid a filing fee of $940 for the appeal.

City spokesman Chris Paulson said the date at which the City Council will hear the appeal has not been decided yet. The council’s next two meetings are Feb. 13 and 27.