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enhancements along the Haas Avenue frontage, new laundry facilities, and interior improvements such as new appliances, fixtures, and paint. The project would provide 14 inclusionary units to satisfy the City's 15 percent affordable housing requirement. The use of the site as condominiums would promote property ownership in San Leandro and should remain as a compatible use to the surrounding development. Staff recommends that the Planning Commission forward the use permit for a condominium conversion, modification to the planned development, and the vesting tentative map and condominium plan to the City Council with a recommendation for approval subject to the attached recommended conditions and findings. SURROUNDING AREA AND BACKGROUND The subject property is developed with a 96-unit apartment complex encompassing approximately 1.84 acres fronting Haas Avenue and backing up to the San Leandro Creek to the south (Planned Development, PD-85-2). The subject property has 237 feet of frontage on Haas Avenue and an average depth of 400 feet. The apartment complex consists of two four-story, 41- foot tall buildings over a depressed parking garage. The buildings are oriented in an east/west direction, at an angle to Haas Avenue. The subject property is zoned RM-1800(PD) Residential Multi-Family, Planned Development Overlay District. Across the street to the north and adjacent to the east, the properties are zoned RM-3000 Residential Multi-Family District and are developed with various residential uses such assingle- family dwellings, duplex, and apartments (see attached Vicinity Map). Adjacent to the south is the San Leandro Creek. To the west the properties are zoned RM-1800 District and developed with the 20-unit East Apartments and the 44-unit Linvale Townhouse Apartments. The property comprises 50 one-bedroom units and 46 two-bedroom units and has on-site amenities including secured parking areas beneath the two apartment buildings and a small deck area overlooking the San Leandro Creek at the rear of the property. The off-street parking consists of 167 parking spaces which is equivalent to 1.74 spaces per unit. Prior to the January 2007 work session, per Zoning Code Article 24, the applicant had already notified and informed the tenants of the proposed conversion. In addition, the applicant had conducted informational meetings with the tenants. The information provided includes the tenant's purchase rights, tenants' discounts, and relocation assistance. PROPOSAL Site Plan and Unit Mix The property consists of two, four-story apartment buildings, each comprising 48 units; thus the complex totals 96 units. On-site amenities include secured off-street parking beneath the buildings and uncovered off-street parking at a podium level between the two aparment buildings and in the parking areas along the front of the complex facing Haas Avenue. The rear of the property contains a common area deck overlooking the San Leandro Creek. The unit mix is as follows: Planning Commission Staff Report November 8, 2007 Woodside Apartments Conversion to Condominium Page 2 of 10