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7.8 -1 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor City Council From the City Manager August 11, 2003 Subject General Plan and Zoning Map Amendment for 20 Avondale Avenue Recommendation 1) Amend the General Plan Land Use Designation for 20 Avondale Avenue from 'Low Density Residential' to 'Heavy Commercial /Office Mixed Use Residential;' and 2) Amend the Zoning Map designation for 20 Avondale Avenue from 'R -1' (Single Family Residential) to 'CG -R' (General Commercial — Combined Residential). Background On June 4, 2002, the Planning Commission recommended to the City Council to amend the General Plan and Zoning Map designations for 20 Avondale Avenue as follows: General Plan Land Use Designation: From: 'Low Density Residential' to 'Heavy Commercial /Office Mixed Use' Zoning Map Designation: From: 'Single Family Residential' (R -1) to 'General Commercial — Combined Residential' (CG -R) The Planning Commission Staff Report and minutes from the June 4, 2002 meeting are included in Attachment #1. The proposed General Plan and Zoning Map Amendments were part of a review for a proposed 13,466 square foot three -story mixed use development on the two contiguous parcels, 20 Avondale Avenue and 150 El Camino Real. Please refer to the project plans in Attachment #2. The proposed project includes two floors of office space, seven residential units on a third (top) floor, underground and surface parking. The project composition and design were a response to changes made to the Redwood City Zoning Ordinance in April 2001 as a result of the Interim Urgency Ordinance that was in effect in late 2000 related to office development and incentives for mixed use development. Twenty Avondale is approximately 6,850 square feet, was previously developed with a single - family home, and is currently vacant except for an unused garage structure and a London Plane tree. It is located near the northwest corner of El Camino Real and Avondale Avenue. The parcel is sandwiched between an R -1 Single- family residential Zoning District and a CG -R (General Commercial — Combined Retail) Zoning District. Please refer to the zoning map, below. A single - family home is located immediately to the southwest of the property on Avondale Avenue. Another single family home parcel, with frontage on Finger Avenue, abuts the rear west corner of the subject property. The adjacent parcel, 150 El Camino Real is a former gas station site, approximately 12,700 square feet, and is currently vacant except for ground water and soil contamination