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/1 City of San Leandro Community Development Department Planning Services Division Staff Report DATE: June 8, 2006 TO: Planning Commission FROM: Elmer Penaranda, Planner II ~ SUBJECT: PLN2005~00141; Rezone from RM1800 Residential Multi-Family District to RM2500(PD) Residential Multi-Family, Planned Development Overlay District; Planned Development and Vesting Tentative Tract Map to construct a subdivision consisting of six, detached, three-story, single-family residences. Each unit would comprise approximately 1,455 square feet of living area, which includes three bedrooms and three baths. Each unit would have an attached two-car garage. 1537 Hays Street; Alameda County Assessor's Parcel Numbers 75-12-7; D. Langon, Langon Homes (applicant and property owner). SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION In January 2006, the Planning Commission conducted a work session and heard this matter (attached). The property owner proposes to develop an underutilized property at the west side of Hays Street, between West Juana Avenue and Parrott Street, with a six-unit, small lot, detached, three-story single-family residential subdivision. Each unit would comprise of three bedrooms, three bathrooms, and an attached two-car garage on the lower level. The subject property is just south of the City's Downtown Plaza Shopping Center and east of the San Leandro BART Station on Davis Street and San Leandro Boulevard. At the work session the Planning Commission commented and asked questions about the project's site planning, exterior design, and density. The Commission made recommendations related to enhancing the exterior design such as improving the Hays Street elevations and adding front doors and front porches to the two units facing Hays Street and including a second-story balcony on all of the units instead of a select few of the proposed units. Since the work session with the Planning Commission, the applicant and architect have refined the plans and prepared a vesting tentative map for the Planning Commission's review. Also since the work session property owners at Garden Terrace Condominium have stated their opposition to the project. Staff recommends that the Planning Commission forward the rezone, the Planned Development, and vesting tentative map to develop the new residential project to the City Council with a recommendation for approval subject to the attached recommended conditions and findings.