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Item 5: Oral Communications None. Item 6: Public Hearing -- PLN2008-00030 Site Plan Review Permit and Vesting Tentative Map, PLN2008-00030 is a Single Lot (condominium purposes) Vesting Tentative Map and a Plan Review Permit for a 200 -Unit Market Rate Condominium Housing Project with 290 parking spaces and approximately 5,000 square feet of retail. The site is identified as "Cornerstone at San Leandro Crossings" (APN 075-0039-007-05 and zoned DA -4(S)). In addition to the Cornerstone, the hearing shall include the Replacement Parking Garage with 339 parking spaces to be located on lot 3 of Vesting Tentative Map 8010. Applicant is Westlake Development Partners, LLC. These are two separate projects, all part of proposed San Leandro Crossings' master plan that also includes the following individual projects: • The Alameda, a 100 -unit affordable community • The San Leandro Boulevard Street and Pedestrian Improvements • The Martinez Street and Pedestrian Improvements • The Downtown Street Pedestrian and Lighting Improvements. This project tiers off an Environmental Impact Report prepared for the Downtown San Leandro Transit -Oriented Development Strategy (TOD) that was certified in September 2007. The City has prepared, noticed and circulated a Mitigated Negative Declaration for this project. Comments on the Mitigated Negative Declaration were required to be submitted to the City by April 21, 2009. The final Mitigated Negative Declaration includes the comments received by the City on or before April 21, 2009. The mitigation measures identified in the Mitigated Negative Declaration address all potentially significant project -related impacts resulting in no significant impacts. Therefore, there is no substantial evidence that the project may have a significant effect on the environment. Senior Planner Millenbah gave the staff report. Be indicated that some residents have called to say that use of this site for condominiums is inappropriate, the density too high and the structures too tall, but the project conforms to the underlying zoning code in all respects. He called attention to a number of land transactions necessary to accomplish the project, noting that BART's Board of Directors has not yet approved any of them. In regards to the Conditions of Approval incorporated in the published staff report, be indicated that I.A. has been revised. Rather than the language printed, that condition now says: Construction shall commence following City Council approval. A one-year extension may be granted by the Community Development Director and a subsequent one-year extension may be granted by the Planning Commission. An addition to the language now says: Commencement of construction shall be defined as when the Applicant files a grading permit and begins grading the site. Further, this language applies to both the Cornerstone and the Replacement Parking Garage.