Residents are asking the Oceanside City Council to overturn the Planning Commission’s approval of a six-story apartment building just off El Camino Real at the main entrance to the Oceana senior community. The mixed-use development would place 73 apartments, four live-work units, and ground-floor commercial space on a lot now occupied by an aging two-story office building at the corner of Vista Bella and Vista Rey streets, between the Coastline Baptist Church and a gas station. “Residents, whose homes are directly across the street from the proposed structure, will lose their expansive, westward ocean views and breezes,” opponents of the project said in a news release Tuesday announcing they filed their appeal. “The value of these homes will drop by tens of thousands of dollars, with no compensation to these retirees for the significant loss in value of, what is for most, their biggest investment,” the release states. The residents’ appeal is expected to be considered at the council’s Jan. 22 meeting. The city’s planning staff recommended the Planning Commission’s approval in October and is likely to ask the council to uphold it, though their report was unavailable Tuesday. The concerns mirror those of many people across the region, as state laws encourage infill development to meet a widespread housing shortage. Long-time residents often are upset about the traffic, parking, noise and the changing community character that come with new residential construction and more crowded living. The Planning Commission voted 3-1 in October to approve the project, with Commissioner Louise Balma opposed. She said she agreed with the concerns raised by residents. Other commissioners said California’s residential construction incentives leave Oceanside no way to stop the project, which is close to public transportation and includes apartments reserved for low-income tenants. “We need to operate within the law,” Commissioner Jay Malik said in October. Representatives of the developer said they have listened to the residents’ concerns, and that they are proposing fewer apartments than state law allows on the site. “We are trying very much to be sensitive to the community,” said Morgan Gallagher, an Orange County attorney for the developer.