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Minutes - San Leandro City Council Meeting - January 6, 1992 Page - 10 - NEW BUSINESS (continued) F. Resolution Approving Vesting Tentative Map, Tract 6494, 262-282 Estabrook Street. Elmer Penaranda, Assistant Planner, said the subject property was located on Estabrook Avenue west of Washington, between an existing condominium and an apartment complex. He said the map before the City Council was for a 14-unit condominium. He said it would be a 1-lot subdivision and the buyers of the units would own the air space. He said the map conforms with Site Development and Conditional Use approval . He said the proposal would consist of five buildings. He said the Planning Commission and staff recommended approval of the Map, subject to the Conditions of Approval . He noted that the Planning Commission had expressed concern regarding Condition No. 7 of the Engineer's Report related to the sanitary sewer and had not made a recommendation on that Condition. Bill Algire, Director of Engineering and Transportation, said when Condition No. 7 of the Engineer's Report was presented to the Planning Commission, it brought up questions related to policy. He said the site has a six-inch clay, gravity sewer-line that is quite old and flat and has limited capacity. He said the City Engineer was concerned about the capacity of the sewer and whether or not it would be able to handle the additional 14 units. He, therefore, included a condition that, due to the concerns related to the impact of the added flow from the proposed project, the City would conduct a capacity analysis to determine if additional capacity was necessary. If it was determined additional capacity was necessary, the developer would be responsible for paying a pro-rata share of the cost to up-size the sewer line. He said it was unknown at this time if the sewer would need to be up- sized; but, if it did, the total cost would be approximately $40,000. He said it was anticipated that the pro-rata cost for the developer would be approximately $1 , 100. He said Engineering felt there were two options: the City Council could approve the Tentative Map, with approval of Engineering's Condition No. 7, or they could delete Condition No. 7 entirely. He said it would take approximately two weeks to a month for the analysis of the sewer-line capacity to be completed. Mayor Karp said the developer of this project has been subject to many delays and has been trying to get it approved for the last two years. He said the first plan submitted was turned down. He said a second plan was submitted and it was also turned down, so the developer was back to the first plan. He said the developer had been told by staff to hire a consultant and had done so at considerable expense. He said he felt existing sewer-connection fees paid for any upgrading that needed to be done to the sewer. He said it was not up to staff to determine policy and this matter was a matter of policy, which should be brought before the City Council but should not be decided on this project alone. He said Engineering's Condition No. 7 should be deleted.