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<br />EXCERPTS FROM THE <br />CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES <br />CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS <br />835 East 14th Street <br />San Leandro, California 94577 <br /> <br />MINUTES FOR AGENDA NO. 07-11 <br /> <br />June 14, 2007 <br /> <br />7:00 P.M. Regular Meeting <br />I Item 1: Roll Call <br /> <br />Present: <br /> <br />Acting ChairNice Chair Dlugosh; Commissioners Finberg, Nardine, <br />Abero, Collier, Ponder. <br /> <br />Chair Reed. <br /> <br />Kathleen Livermore, Interim Planning Services Manager and Secretary to <br />the Planning Commission; Elmer Penaranda, Planner II; Stephanie Stuart, <br />Assistant City Attorney; Luke Sims, Interim Community Development <br />Director; Larry Ornelas, Civic Center Meeting Room Coordinator, <br />Barbara Templeton, Recording Secretary. <br /> <br />Excused: <br /> <br />Staff: <br /> <br />I Item 6: Public Hearings I <br /> <br />(a) Matter of PLN2007-00027; to renew an expired Planned Development Approval <br />PLN2003-00054, to construct a mixed-use speculative commercial/light industrial <br />component comprising approximately 10,589 square feet and a self-storage facility <br />comprising approximately 66,958 square feet with a resident manager's office and <br />living quarters at 14340 Washington Avenue; the application expired March 6, 2007; <br />CC(PD) Community Commercial, Planned Development Overlay District and <br />IL(PD) Industrial Limited, Planned Development Overlay District. Alameda County <br />Assessor's Parcel Number nC-1235-2-22; Mark Landes, Landes Corp. (applicant <br />and property owner). [PenarandaJ <br /> <br />Planner Elmer Penaranda indicated that the rezoning for the subject property occurred <br />a year ago; part of it - CC(PD) - for the speculative commercial/light industrial use <br />along the Washington Avenue frontage, and the other part, the IL(PD), the Extra Space <br />self-storage compound with 500 rental units behind it. One of the self-storage buildings is <br />two-story; the others are all single-story units. The site, which encompasses some 3.25 <br />acres adjacent to and just north of the Oroweat facility, has been vacant for <br />approximately five years. In the past, a scaffolding contractors' yard occupied the <br />property. Much of the debris stacked on the property has been either removed or placed <br />behind a screening material. The property owner also has asked neighboring businesses, <br />primarily assorted automotive repair businesses and body shops going north toward 143rd <br />Avenue, to remove vehicles from the front of the property to minimize its disorderly <br />appearance. With Kraft General Foods and Oroweat in between, the site is not visible <br />from Halcyon Drive. The elevations of the Washington Avenue frontage show a metal <br />