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- 1. 8- 1 -- REPOR T .� , To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager April 26, 2004 Subject Zoning Map and Zoning Text Amendments to allow the proposed Abbott Laboratories "West Coast Research Center' campus at 1 Cardinal Way (terminus Chesapeake Drive, former Cargill "Salt Pile" site). Recommendation 1. Find that the proposed Zoning Map Amendment is in the public interest and approve the Zoning Map Amendment from the General Industrial (GI) Zoning District to the fndustrial Restricted (IR) Zoning District. (Attachment 1) 2. Find that the proposed Zoning Text Amendment is in the public interest and approve the Zoning Text Amendment to allow floor-area-ratio (FAR) exemptions for the provision of child care facilities or public non-profit education facilities in large commercial and industrial developments and FAR bonuses for the provision of publicly accessible open space ur pla�elds on property associated with large commercial and `" industrial developments. (Attachment 2) Background Abbott Laboratories proposes to construct a"West Coast Research Center' campus forthe research and development of vascular devices and related pharmaceuticals in three phases over a ten to fifteen year period. The Planning Commission certified an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) prepared for this project on February 10, 2004. At that same meeting, the Planning Commission recommended amendments to the Zoning Map and Text that would enable the project to be built as proposed. These amendments are the action before the Council at this time and are more specifically described later in this report. In a related action, at their meeting on March 23, 2004, the Planning Commission approved a Planned Development Permit and Tentative Map for the project, subject to the approval of the proposed Zoning Map and Text Amendments. The site and proposed project are briefly described below. Site Descriation: The site is zoned General Industrial (GI) and is located at the terminus of Chesapeake Orive. It is predominantly surrounded by Seaport Center, which consists of low-rise research and developmenUoffice buildin s. The site has si nificant waterfr 9 ont and . . 9 is situated at the confluen � ce of Redwood Creek an d the San Francisco Bay. The a roximatel 17.74 pp y acre site was formerly used for stockpiling and shippin salt. Abbott .. 9 Laboratories owns two a i dd bonal parcels to the east of the site which are not co ' , nsidered � to be part of the project area. Both of these parcels are in the water in the Tidal Plain (TP) Zoning District.