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REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager September 28, 2015 SUBJECT Appeals by three parties - Geoffrey T. Carr, Richard and Sally Keyes, and J&S Management - of Planning Commission Resolution No. 15-12 approving a Vesting Tentative Map, Downtown Planned Community Permit including two guideline deviations, and Parking In-Lieu Fee Application for 601 Marshall Street pursuant to the City of Redwood City's Downtown Precise Plan and Subdivision Ordinance RECOMMENDATION Hold a Public Hearing and Adopt a Resolution (Attachment 1) Denying the Appeals and Approving the Vesting Tentative Map, Downtown Planned Community Permit including two guideline deviations, and Parking In-Lieu Fee Application, based on the findings and subject to the conditions of approval contained therein, and upon consideration of the Initial Study Checklist demonstrating compliance with the Downtown Precise Plan Environmental Impact Report (EIR) as certified on January 24, 2011. BACKGROUND Dostart Development Company, LLC (Applicant) seeks to develop an office/retail building at 601 Marshall Street. Situated across the intersection from the historic courthouse at the northeast corner of Marshall Street and Middlefield Road, the project site extends along the full block of Marshall Street and has frontage on Middlefield Road, Marshall Street and Jefferson Avenue. It is comprised of four parcels which total approximately 30,000 square feet. It is currently improved with several low-rise office buildings and associated surface parking, all of which would be demolished in connection with the Project. In August 2014, the Applicant applied for a Downtown Planned Community Permit and Vesting Tentative Map to develop the project site. The Applicant originally proposed an 11-story, 136’ tall, 136,500 square foot contemporary style building for the site. In response to input by City staff, advisory committees and the public, the Applicant subsequently proposed a smaller 9-story, 112’ tall, 129,235 square foot office/retail building with two levels of underground parking (Project). As part of this subsequent proposal, the Applicant intentionally reduced the height of the building to not be any taller than the height of the historic courthouse dome (which is 112 feet tall). The 7.A. - Page 1