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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 City Council conduct a public hearing, follow the recommendation of the Planning Commission and take the following actions:
1. Adopt a resolution making findings and adopting 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. Waive reading and introduce an Ordinance amending Chapter 20.280 ("Downtown Station Area Specific Plan District") of the South San Francisco Municipal Code; and
3. Adopt a resolution making findings and approving a General Plan Amendment (GPA20-0002), Use Permit (UP20-0008), Design Review (DR20-0027), Transportation Demand Management Program (TDM20-0010) and Tentative Parcel Map (PM22-0003), subject to the attached draft conditions of approval.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND
Site Overview and Location
The site, 121 East Grand, is located in the East of 101 area and is flanked by Poletti Way to the west, East Grand Avenue to the south and southeast, and Grand Avenue to the north. The site has active street frontage on three sides: west, south, and east. A 19.3 ft wide service area runs the length of the northern side of...
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