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Resolution making findings and recommending that the City Council approve a General Plan Amendment, Zoning Text Amendment, Use Permit, Design Review, Tentative Parcel Map and Transportation Demand Management Plan 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 Core (TO/RD) Zoning District.
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WHEREAS, the applicant has proposed to construct one Office/R&D building totaling approximately 943,965 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 ("121 E Grand Ave R&D Project"); and
WHEREAS, the proposed Project is located within the Transit Office/ Research and Development Core (TO/RD) Zoning District; and
WHEREAS, the applicant seeks approval of a General Plan Amendment (GPA20-0002), Zoning Text Amendment (ZA20-0002), Conditional Use Permit (UP20-0008), Design Review (DR20-0027), Transportation Demand Management Plan (TDM20-0010), and Tentative Parcel Map (PM22-0003), for the Project; and
WHEREAS, approval of the applicant's proposal is considered a "project" for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code ?21000, et seq.) ("CEQA"); and
WHEREAS, on behalf of the City, Knapp Consulting prepared an Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration ("IS/MND") for the Project analyzing the potential environmental effects of the Project, which was submitted to the State Clearinghouse (SCH # 2022060734) and the San Mateo County Clerk and was circulated for a 30-day public review period, beginning on July 1, 2022, and ending on August 1, 2022; and
WHEREAS, the City received four comment letter...
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