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EXCERPTS FROM THE SAN LEANDRO PLANNING COMMISSION CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 835 East 14th Street San Leandro, California MINUTES FOR AGENDA N0.07-01 January 11, 2007 7:00 P.M. Work Session Item 1: Roll Call Present: Chair Perras; Vice-Chair Reed; Commissioners Kleebauer, Collier, Ponder, Wohltmann. Excused: Commissioner Dlugosh. Staff: Debbie Pollart, Planning Services Manager and Secretary to the Planning Commission; Elmer Penaranda, Planner II; Stephanie Stuart, Assistant City Attorney; Barbara Templeton, Recording Secretary. Item 6: Work Session I (a) Work session on a proposed residential condominium conversion. The Applicant and Property Owner (Kathy Oesterreich, Davidon Investors) is requesting approval of a use permit for the conversion of the Woodside Apartments, a 96-unit complex located at 235 Haas Avenue, to condominium ownership and a Vesting Tentative Map Tract No. 7767 to create subdivision for condominium ownership. As part of the condominium conversion application, the property owner is proposing to increase the current off-street parking supply with the redesign of the parking lot at the front of the property. Work sessions are provided for projects to receive preliminary input from the public and the Planning Commission. Planner Penaranda introduced the project with a PowerPoint presentation. He noted that the subject property, which occupies a 1.8-acre site in a densely developed neighborhood, was originally approved as a Planned Development in 1985. It has 217 feet of frontage on Haas Avenue, and backs up to San Leandro Creek on the southern side. The development consists of a pair of four-story buildings 41 feet tall, with some secured parking beneath each building. Neighboring properties include single-family homes, duplexes and other apartment buildings. The Woodside Apartments complex consists of 50 one-bedroom