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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO PLANNING SERVICES DIVISION MEMORANDUM DATE: February 7, 2006 TO: Ken Joseph, City Engineer FROM: Sally Barron, Planner II SUBJECT: City Planner's Report on Parcel Map Number 8216; 15301 Farnsworth Street; RAM Engineering Consulting Services (applicant) and Trinh Hoang (property owner) INTRODUCTION Pursuant to Title VII, of Chapter 1 of the San Leandro Municipal Code, please accept this as the City Planner's Report on Parcel Map 8216. BACKGROUND The subject site is a 10,258 square-foot lot at the northwest corner of Farnsworth Street and Burkhart Avenue in Washington Manor. The lot is developed with aone-story, 1,160 square-foot single-family home, oriented toward Farnsworth Street, and an approximate 400 square-foot detached garage, oriented toward Burkhart Avenue. The property is zoned RS Residential Single-Family Zoning District. On November 7, 2005, the property owner received a Planned Development and Rezone (from RS (Residential Single-Family District) to RS-PD approval), PLN2005-000005, from the City Council to split the lot into two parcels, to allow for the development of a new 2,368 square-foot two-story dwelling on the interior, westernmost lot. The approval allowed for an interior lot size of approximately 4,583 square feet, where 5,000 square feet is the minimum lot size for an interior lot, and to allow for a corner lot size with approximately 5,675 square feet, where 6,000 square feet is the minimum lot size for a corner lot in the RS District and for the resulting substandard rear setback for the existing home on the corner lot of five feet, where 10 feet is required in the RS District. DETAILS OF PROPOSAL Parcel Map 8216 proposes to subdivide the single lot into two parcels, one for the existing home on the corner lot and one for the new home on the interior lot.