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Ordinance amending Chapter 20.280 ("Downtown Station Area Specific Plan District") of the South San Francisco Municipal Code.
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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 has proposed amendments to the City's Zoning Ordinance ("Ordinance"), to amend Chapter 20.280, "Downtown Station Area Specific Plan District", to modify the development standards to allow additional density in order to implement the Project; and
WHEREAS, the applicant also seeks approval of a General Plan Amendment (GPA20-0002), 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 letters on the IS/MND during the applicable comment period, and as set forth in the accompanying staff report and the record below, the City determined that the comments submitted do not result in new significant impacts or mitigation me...
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