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Report regarding consideration of applications for a General Plan Amendment, Zoning Ordinance Amendment, Use Permit, Design Review, Transportation Demand Management Program, Parcel Map and Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration to construct a seventeen-story office/R&D building with community serving commercial uses, totaling approximately 940,000 square feet, atop a two-story podium parking structure with publicly accessible plazas and landscape areas, and other on- and off-site improvements, on a 3.2-acre site at 121 E Grand Ave in the Transit Office Research and Development (TO/RD) Zoning District. (Allison Knapp, Consulting Planner and Billy Gross, Principal Planner)
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the Planning Commission conduct a public hearing and take the following actions:
1. Adopt a resolution making findings and recommending that the City Council adopt the Initial Study / Mitigated Negative Declaration (ND21-0001) State Clearinghouse #2022060734, in accordance with Section 21080 of the California Public Resources Code and CEQA Guidelines Section 15070 et seq.; and
2. Adopt a resolution making findings and recommending that the City Council take the following actions: (1) adopt a resolution approving a General Plan Amendment (GPA20-0002); (2) introduce an ordinance amending the Zoning Code (ZA20-0002); (3) adopt a resolution approving the Use Permit (UP20-0008), Design Review (DR20-0027), Transportation Demand Management Program (TDM20-0010) and Tentative Parcel Map (PM22-0003), based on the attached draft findings and subject to the attached draft conditions of approval.
MOTIONS FOR THE COMMISSION TO ADOPT STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
(1) Move to adopt the resolution recommending adoption of the IS/MND.
(2) Move to adopt the resolutions recommending amendment to the zoning text and approval of planning entitlements.
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BACKGROUND/DISCUSSION
Site Overview and Location
The site, 121 East Grand, is locate...
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