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City of San Leandro Community Development Department Planning Services Division Staff Report DATE: January 18, 2007 TO: Board of Zoning Adjustments FROM: Sally Barros, Planner II SUBJECT: PLN2006-00043; Proposed residential project with 24 modular-construction townhouses at 15101 Washington Avenue. Proposed amenities include a private roadway, an internal courtyard area, a two-car tandem garage for each unit in an underground structure, and 10 surface guest parking spaces on the rear portion of the site. The site is zoned RM-1800 Residential Multi-Family Zoning District. The applicant would be seeking a Variance for a reduced front setback (10 feet where 15 feet is required in the RM-1800 District); a Variance for the rear required landscape area (less than the required five-foot width planting area within the interior yards); a Parking Exception for the tandem garages; and a Site Plan Review for the design of the site and structures. Assessor's Parcel Number 80H-1515-008-02, 15101 Washington Avenue; 15101 Washington Ave, LLC (applicant and property owner). SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION The proposal is to develop the 1. 19-acre subject site with a 24-unit multi-family residential for- sale condominium row-house project, with the use of modular units. All of the townhouse units are proposed as two-story above a partially sub-grade garage structure with 1,285 square feet of living space each. The units would comprise of two bedrooms, an office space, two bathrooms, and an attached two-car tandem garage. As required under the City's Inc1usionary Housing Ordinance, four townhouses will be offered as affordable units. The subject property is on the Washington A venue commercial corridor at the edge of the Washington Manor neighborhood and is zoned RM-1800, Residential Multi-Family Zoning District, with a stated density of 24 units per acre. In November 2006, the Board of Zoning Adjustments conducted a work session, where the applicant presented preliminary plans and the Board provided comments (see attached meeting minute excerpts). At the work session the Board commented on the proposal and asked questions about the project's site planning, parking, exterior design, and landscape layout. The Commission expressed a consensus that the project's overall scale a.~d design, including the variance for the front setback and tandem parking, was acceptable, but found that the landscape exception for the side and rear yard landscaping was not appropriate given the size of the site.