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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br /> <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> <br />DATE: March 25, 2013 <br /> <br />TO: Keith Cooke, Principal Engineer <br /> Austine Osakwe, Senior Engineer <br /> <br />FROM: Cynthia Battenberg, Community Development Director <br /> Tom Liao, Planning and Housing Services Manager <br /> Elmer Penaranda, Senior Planner <br /> <br />SUBJECT: City Planner’s Report on Parcel Map 10073; 120-122 Estudillo Avenue; City of San <br />Leandro Public Parking Garage and the San Leandro Chamber of Commerce; Kier & <br />Wright Civil Engineers and Surveyors. <br /> <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />Pursuant to Title VII, of Chapter 1 of the San Leandro Municipal Code, please accept this as the City <br />Planner’s Report on Parcel Map 10073 referenced above. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br /> <br />The subject property referenced above is owned by the City of San Leandro and compromises 56,392 <br />square feet. It has an odd shape that includes street frontages on Callan Avenue, East 14th Street, and <br />Estudillo Avenue. It is zoned DA-1 Downtown Area District and developed with the Estudillo- <br />Callan Parking Garage, a four-story parking structure that includes a new office space for the San <br />Leandro Chamber of Commerce at the ground floor of the Estudillo Avenue frontage, and newly <br />constructed Paseo Del Oro which serves as pedestrian connection between East 14th Street and the <br />parking garage at the eastern terminus of the Paseo. It also serves ingress and egress for the 101 <br />Callan office building and the Wells Fargo Bank building. <br /> <br />The new parking garage with Chamber office and Paseo eliminated a blighted condition by replacing <br />a parking garage (constructed in 1973) for which concerns existed such as 1) the insufficient number <br />of parking spaces; 2) traffic circulation within the structure and entry/exit onto both Estudillo <br />Avenue and Callan Avenue; 3) ADA accessibility; 4) security; and 5) the structure’s ability to <br />withstand a significant seismic event, to name a few. In addition, it carries out the General Plan, <br />Transit Oriented Development TOD Strategy and the City’s Zoning Code by providing additional <br />parking to enable higher density development in the downtown. <br /> <br />The majority of the surrounding properties are currently zoned DA-1 District and developed with <br />various commercial, retail services, and business and professional offices (i.e., Wells Fargo, CVS <br />Pharmacy, East Bay Flowers, 101 Callan and 151 Callan office buildings, Santos Robinson <br />Mortuary, Plaza Shopping Center). The immediate area is designated in the General Plan Land Use <br />Map for Downtown Mixed Use development and usage.