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City Council - 2 - May 13, 1997 BACKGROUND This property is located on the north side of Davis Street between Hays Street and Clarke Street. The site includes the former Elk's Club, a small office building with two tenant spaces and a commercial building with a beauty salon on the first floor and two residential units on the second floor. The Elk's Club building is unreinforced masonry. The owner of the commercial building at the corner of Hays and Davis Streets is purchasing the property from the Elk's Club and proposes the following: • To rezone the property from CC and CD to CD (PD). To develop the Elks Club property with a 7,250 square foot commercial building and parking. The commercial building at the corner of Davis and Hays Streets is not part of the Planned Development because it is a legal conforming building. It has its own parking. The rear of the property backs up to the San Leandro Creek. All of the existing improvements on the site will be removed and a new 7,250 square foot commercial building will be constructed at the corner of Clarke Street and Davis Street. Because Alameda County Flood Control requires a 40 foot setback from the top of the creek bank to any building, the building portion of the property is restricted to the front portion of the site. The building has therefore been brought forward to the front property line to obtain maximum building depth. The area between the new building and the existing commercial building at the corner of Hays and Davis Streets will be paved for parking. The parking lot will serve both the new building and will also provide additional parking for the building at the corner of Hays and Davis Streets. Two driveways will be located on Davis Street. A one-way circulation system is being utilized to get traffic on and off the street as fast as possible. Davis Street is a State highway the two - driveway design has been approved by CalTrans. Customers will be restricted to right turns in and out of the site. The parking lot will also connect to the small lot behind the adjacent corner building. Customers could enter from Hays Street and exit onto Davis Street. The developer feels this connection is vital to the success of the project. The building will have a mission style design consisting of stucco walls with accent tiles, tile roof and an arcade covering sections of the concrete walk along the east side of the building. Colors will be beige and brown tones for the walls, red Spanish tile roof, green accent tiles and green window and door frames. The walls of the building along the two street frontages and the east wall facing the parking lot have an attractive storefront appearance. Depending on the number of tenants in the building and their desires, individual store fronts could face on the street or on the parking lot. Even though it is not a part of this planned development, the applicant will remodel the corner building to tie-in architecturally with the new building. The blank west wall of that building will be renovated to match the appearance of the new building. This will open up that side of the building to the parking lot.