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Staff Report for a Resolution to Approve a Modification of a Planned Development and Site Plan Review to Permit Construction of a Seven-Story Mixed-Use Residential Building, Including 13,000 Square Feet of Office on the Ground Floor and 197 Units of Multi-Family Residences on the 3.13-Acre Southern Portion of the San Leandro Technology Campus (SLTC), 601 Parrott Street (To Thornton Avenue To The South). Assessor's Parcel Number 75-47-57-2; Westlake Development Partners, LLC (Applicant and Property Owner).
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
On April 7, 2014, the City Council approved the San Leandro Tech Campus (PLN2013-00045), a Planned Development and Site Plan Review to develop a three-phased office/technology campus with up to a maximum of 500,000 square feet of office and other related uses located in multiple buildings on the seven acre project site west of the BART station and owned by Westlake Development Partners, LLC (Westlake). The project is now proposed to be revised to include a residential component. The City Council's prior approval conditioned that any future residential component in the project requires Planning Commission and City Council approval.
The proposed mixed-use residential project complies with the Zoning Code and the City's Downtown TOD Strategy. The proposed project will provide much needed new housing and helps the City meet its State Regional Housing Needs Allocation Housing goals, particularly for market rate housing, under the General Plan Housing Element.
The Planning Commission and staff recommend the City Council approve the proposed project through the attached Resolution that makes the following actions:
A. Adoption of finding that the proposed project is consistent with the assumptions for the project site as presented in the Downtown TOD Strategy EIR and that the proposed project does not result in any new or significant impacts or increase the severity of any significant impacts identified in the Env...
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