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9A Page 1 REP�R T To TMe Honorable Mayor and C�ty Counci�. Frorn the City Manager April 9, 2007 Subject 885 Woodside Road Precise Plan Recommendation Adopt a Resoiution approving the 885 Waodside Raad Precise Plan,as revised, based on the f ndings that the project demonstrates#hree or more of the following features: superior mixed use design, incorporation of affordable housing; incorporation of public or community faci[ities; transportatian demand management; efficient and innovative use of infrastructure and nonrenewable resources or innovative use of shared parking (A#tachment 2) and contingent upon the following: a) Subsequen# Planning Commission recommendation to Council to approve the rezoning of property located at $85 Woodside Road from General Cammercial- Rssidential Combining (CG-R) Zoning Dis#rict to °lanned Community (P) Zoning District.' b) The City Counci{ waufd then hold another public hearing t� consider just the re- zoning. c) Ifi Council approves the rezoning,then the Precise Plan wauld officially be approved. Background The City is in receip# of an applica#�on for a Zaning Map Amendment and an associated Precise Plan for a 43-unit, multi-family residential condaminium development. The property is approximately 0.66 acres(29,046 sq.ft.)and is located on Woodside Road, a major eas#- west, high-density, mixed-use transit carridor, Immediately adjacent uses include; a Samtrans bus stop appraximately 50 feet to the north on Woodside Road; a four-story apartment building (the "Montecito" Apartments) to the nor�h; a small-(ot, sing(e-family residential Planned Development neighborhood to the east(the"Stonehedge"subdivision); and a gas station to the south. Additional adjacent land uses include a car wash and nursery schoo{to the south; another four-story apartment building to the west on the other side of Woodsid� Raad (the "Terrace"Apartments�; and a wide range af commercial uses including a Safeway grocery store a{ong Waodside Road. Additional iow and mvderate density residential subdivisions are located south of the project site, with access from Horgan Avenue. 1 On November 28, 2006 the Planning Cammission approved the Mitigated Negative Declaratian and recommended Council approval of the Precise Pfan, but did not make a separate motion to re- zone the property. Consequently,the Precise Plan for 885 Waodside Road cannot be in effect until the Pianning Commission makes a recommendation to Council to re-zone the property, and the Council has acted on fihat recammendation. 1