VODIE’S on Garden Grove Boulevard (Orange County Tribune).

By Jm Tortolano/Orange County Tribune

One long-time Garden Grove landmark may soon be replaced with a brand-new one.

At next Thursday’s meeting of the planning commission, there will be a public hearing on a site plan and lot line adjustment for the construction of a seven-story, 98-unit multiple-family apartment complex on a 1.35-acre site on the north side of Garden Grove Boulevard between Galway Street and Brookhurst Way.

Long-time residents and anyone who regularly travels along Garden Grove Boulevard will recognize that as the site of the now-closed Vodie’s Brakes with its giant neon-lighted bear sign.

Opened in 1939, Vodie’s was a towering point of visual interest from the era of Franklin Roosevelt to the recent past. In addition to brake work, wheel alignment and other automotive repairs were done.

The new building will combine two parcels and include 10 affordable housing units for “very-low income” residents.

The applicant is William Jager.

Also at that meeting will be a public hearing on a site plan, conditional use permit and other permissions to develop a six-story mixed-use development on a 0.94-acre lot consisting of an 80-unit senior apartment complex and an 82-unit ‘“residential care facility for the elderly.”

It will include four affordable housing units for four “very low income” residents.

The proposed site is at the southeast corner of Stanford Avenue and 9th Street at 11432 and 11462 Stanford Ave.

The applicant is also William Jager.

The meeting will take place in the Community Meeting Center, 11300 Stanford Ave. at 7 p.m.