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City of San Leandro Community Development Department Planning Services Division Staff Report DATE: April 12, 2007 TO: Planning Commission FROM: Sally Barros, Planner II SUBJECT: PLN2006-00104; Planned Development and Tentative Map for a proposed residential townhouse proje~t with 23 units at 311 MacArthur Boulevard/Herma Court. Proposed amenities include a private driveway, an internal park area, one- and two-car garages for each residential unit, and six guest parking spaces on the site. The site is zoned CC Commercial Community District and RS Residential Single-Family. The applicant would be seeking a Planned Development to rezone the properties with a Planned Development overlay district and a Tentative Map. Assessor's Parcel Numbers 76-311-1-1, 76-311-1-3, 76-311-3, 76-311-4, and 76- 311-5; 311 MacArthur Boulevard/Herma Court; D. Ruffin Architecture (applicant); Settlemier Properties (property owner). SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION The applicant and property owner propose to develop the subject site with a new 23-unit for-sale residential row-house project. All of the units are proposed as three-story, ranging from approximately 1,151 square feet to 2,042 square feet in area, and would comprise of 20 three- bedroom and three four-bedroom units, with attached one- and two-car garages. As required under the City's Inclusionary Housing Ordinance, three townhouses are proposed as low- and moderate-income units. The subject property is on the MacArthur Boulevard commercial corridor at the edge of the Broadmoor neigh1:Jorhood. In July 2006, the Planning Commission conducted a work session, where the applicant presented preliminary plans and the Commission provided comments (the meeting minute excerpts are attached). That plan included 14 townhomes, two single-family homes on Herma Court, and a 3,223 square-foot commercial space on the comer of the subject site. At the July work session, the Planning Commission asked questions about the project's site planning, traffic and parking, and the viability of the proposed commercial space at the comer. The Commission expressed concerns over the proposed narrow house on the substandard Herma Court lot and the location of the open space. The applicant and architect have since modified the plans significantly, increasing the number of units, changing the commercial unit into a residential unit with a potential "flex" office space, and presenting two different options for use