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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: May 6, 2014 <br />TO: Nicole Noronha Castelino, Assistant Engineer <br />Keith Cooke, Principal Engineer <br />Austine Osakwe, Senior Engineer <br />FROM: Tom Liao, Community Development Department Deputy Director <br />Elmer Penaranda, Senior Planner '` <br />SUBJECT: City Planner's Report on Parcel Map 10213; 1400 San Leandro Boulevard; BRIDGE Housing <br />Corporation (BRIDGE) and San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART); Lea & Braze <br />Engineering, Inc. <br />INTRODUCTION <br />Pursuant to Title VII, of Chapter 1 of the San Leandro Municipal Code, please accept this as the City Planner's <br />Report on the Parcel Map referenced above. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The subject property referenced above is a 2.2 acre existing BART Parking Lot at the northeast corner of San <br />Leandro Boulevard and West Juana Avenue, directly across San Leandro Boulevard from the Downtown San <br />Leandro BART Station. The site is owned by the San Francisco Rapid Transit District (BART) and is utilized <br />as a surface parking lot. The nearby neighborhood is primarily residential with high density residential, Pacific <br />Plaza, across Carpentier Street to the east, smaller single-family homes across West Juana Avenue to the south <br />and St. Leander's Grammar School and playground immediately to the north. <br />BRIDGE Housing Corporation (BRIDGE) was entitled in early 2009 for a 100 -unit affordable rental housing <br />development project at another property between Alvarado and Martinez Streets and west of the BART <br />Station which was owned by Westlake Development Partners, LLC (Westlake). As a result of the economic <br />downturn and to ensure the vitality of creating needed affordable rental housing near the BART Station, <br />BRIDGE exchanged properties with Westlake in Spring 2012 and assumed the Westlake entitlement for The <br />Cornerstone Apartments (Site Plan Review Approval, PLN2008-00030) to construct a 200 -unit multi -family <br />residential development project and BART replacement parking at 1400 San Leandro Boulevard. BRIDGE <br />would make The Cornerstone an affordable rental housing development. The site is zoned DA -4(S) <br />Downtown Area, Special Overlay District. <br />DETAILS OF PROPOSAL <br />The Parcel Map proposes to vertically subdivide the subject site comprising 99,025 square feet (2.27 acres) <br />into the following four parcels: <br />Parcell; BRIDGE Senior Housing. This would include the future 85 senior apartment units. <br />Parcel 2; Senior Housing Parking Spaces for 26 parking spaces. <br />